1907.] Catalogue of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 305 



Coprince, &c, and which, to the best of my knowledge, have entirely 

 disappeared in the Cetonince. 



Two species extremely variable in colouration are included in this 

 genus. 



Key to the Species. 



Clypeus sinuate in front longipes. 



Clypeus deeply incised zebra. 



Stripsipher longipes, Sweder., 

 Act. Holm., 1787, p. 192. 



swederi, Schonh., Syn. Ins., i., 3, 106. 



flavipennis, Gor. and Per., Monog. Cet., p. 96, pi. 11, fig. 6. 



horsfieldi, McLeay, Illust. Zool. S. Afric, hi., p. 14, pi. i. 



Glabrous, black, shiny ; prothorax with a white outer marginal 

 band, which, however, is often obliterated ; scutellum with two 

 white spots ; elytra either flavous and maculated with black or quite 

 black, they have on each side two white spots above the outer 

 margin, and two on each side of the suture ; pygidium with two 

 yellowish or whitish spots on each side, these spots coalesce often 

 and thus form an arcuate patch ; the anterior legs and the clypeus 

 are occasionally rufo-flavescent ; clypeus shorter than the head, 

 sinuate in front, not much strangulate laterally at the base, head 

 somewhat coarsely punctate ; antennal club very little longer in the 

 male than in the female ; prothorax more attenuate laterally in the 

 anterior part than behind, the base is deeply bi-sinuate and the angles 

 almost rounded, the disk is covered with round punctures separated 

 by a smooth space equal to their own diameter, and there is on each 

 side a round supra-marginal impression near the median part ; 

 scutellum sparsely punctate ; elytra slightly ampliated in the median 

 part and equal in width at base and apex, plane with the supra 

 outer marginal part sloping, sub-costate in the discoidal part, deeply 

 and regularly striate punctate with the apical part irregularly punc- 

 tured ; legs glabrous, long, very slender ; intermediate tibiae of male 

 slightly arcuate. 



The colouration of this species varies considerably ; black or 

 piceous-red elytra predominate in the female. 



Length 9J-13 mm. ; width 5^-7 mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony. 



Gory and Percheron's figure is not a good one ; that given by 

 McLeay (S. horsfieldi) is very accurate, and the colouration very 

 true. 



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