Coleoptera from South Africa. 411 
In the typical example of this species the head and thorax 
are white, the latter having a broad central vitta and a line 
along the base black, leaving the front margin and a squarish 
spot occupying the whole side and front angle white. The 
elytra are of a fine orange-yellow, slightly clouded on their 
disk, with the suture and the margins (except at the base) 
narrowly black. The punctuation is fine and close. ‘The 
thorax is transverse, not so wide as the elytra, but still 
almost forming a continuous outline with them, its base much 
rounded and continuous with the rounded sides, so that there 
is no hind angle. 
Herr Weise, to whom I sent the typical example, remarks 
that it must stand near Cydonia circumelusa, Muls. ‘That 
insect was described from a single female example from 
Benin, West Africa, and Crotch, who had seen it, considered 
it a small example of C. dorsalis, Oliv. The Delagoa Bay 
insect has much the appearance of a Veranda, e. g. it is almost 
marked exactly as the var. of V. discolor recorded by me as 
bifurcata from Birma. 
The specimens from Delagoa Bay are rather smaller than 
the single type, and have the black vitta confused in the more 
extended black of the base. At the same time their colour 
is not so rosy. 
Exochomus ? Justitia, sp. 0. 
Orbicularis, nigro-piceus ; elytris sanguineis, macula magna trans- 
versa postmediana communi, postice indentata nigra, margine 
subexplanata nigrescente ; pube pruinosa grisea vestitus. 
Long. 3°5 millim. 
Hab. Natal, Malvern (AZarshall). 
Thorax transverse, with the front angles very much 
deflexed (as in Chilocorus), the sides straight, the angles them- 
selves acute ; the excavation for the head has the angles nearly 
square, being straight at the base. The punctuation of the 
thorax is only just visible on the disk, but is stronger at the 
sides. ‘The head is much deflexed (as in Cryptognatha) in 
the single example before me; both it and the thorax are 
itchy black, with the sides of the thorax becoming reddish. 
he elytra are of a rich blood-red, with a black mark very 
similar to that of Cyrtaulis sellata. his mark is produced 
backwards on the suture and somewhat obliquely at its sides 
without reaching either the apex or the margins. ‘lhe punce- 
tuation is distinct and thick at the humeral angles and along 
the blackish sides, but is very minute on the disk, although 
very close and obsolete. ‘lhe scutellum, legs, and body are 
black. ‘The whole insect above is pubescent. 
