1892.] to the South African Coleopterous Fauna. 15 



Gen. Anthia. Weber. 



44. A. thoracica. Fabric. 



Recorded from all parts of South Africa, from Delagoa Bay to 

 Damaraland. My examples from Delagoa Bay have the elytra more 

 deeply striated. 



45. A. limbipennis. Chaud, var. ovampoe?isis. 



The Ovampoland specimens of the species are generally larger than 

 those from the Transvaal, and have on the outer part of the disk of 

 the prothorax a few white decumbent hairs, more noticeable in the 

 males, in which the postical lobes are also not sensibly produced 

 posteriorly and are merely incised in the postical margin. 



This variety is probably a form of transition between limbipennis, 

 Chaud. and calida, Harold. 



46. A. omoplata. Lequien. 



This, species varies very much in the sculpturing of the elytra and 

 in the size of the supra-hurreral maculag, and may be divided in 

 varieties as follows : 



Type form : A. omaplata : elytra deeply punctato-striated, supra- 

 humeral patch broad, ovate, extending from the 

 fourth to the seventh interval. 

 Long. 36-43, lat. lS-lS 111111 - 



Recorded from Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, 

 Limpopo, Northern Ovampoland. 



Var. algoensis : elytra deeply punctato-striated and supra-humeral 

 patch as in A. omoplata, but th^ lateral white 

 margin reaches from the apex to below the 

 median part of elytra only . 

 Long. 40, lat. U™*' 



„ from Delagoa Bay only. 



47. Var. heres : elytra less deeply punctato-striated, supra-humeral 



patch reduced to a mere dot, the dot sometimes bifid. 

 Long. 31-36, lat. 10-14 mm * 



„ from Northern Ovampoland. 



48. Var. intempestiva : elytra hardly costate, the supra-humeral patch 



often reduced to a small elongated patch, but 

 sometimes .extending from the fifth to the 

 seventh interval. 

 Long. 37-41, lat. ^-lo 1 *"*' 



„ from Ovampoland, Damaraland, Upper Limpopo, British 

 Bechuanaland, 



