338 Transactions South African Philosophical Society, [vol. xiii. 



black, with a whitish outer marginal prothoracic band (turbidus, 

 lug ens), without this outer marginal prothoracic band {minor), or 

 reddish with two discoidal black prothoracic bands reaching from 

 the base to about the middle, and the elytra immaculate or with an 

 evanescent, infuscate, transverse band in the posterior part ; but it 

 is oftener black with the prothorax and elytra brick-red and opaque ; 

 in the median part of the base there is a black patch which is some- 

 times nearly obliterated, but which invades occasionally the greatest 

 part of the disk, and on each side there is a marginal, narrow white 

 band ; scutellum partly red and black, or totally black ; elytra with 

 two arcuate irregular sinuate patches, especially the posterior one 

 on each side ; pygidium with two white patches coalescing some- 

 times along the apical margin ; upper lateral part of abdominal 

 segments maculated with white ; frontal part and also the concavity 

 of the clypeus clothed with a flavescent pubescence ; frontal part 

 densely punctate ; prothorax with a very distinct tubercle in the 

 centre of the anterior part, and clothed with a brief flavescent 

 pubescence, it is very closely punctate ; scutellum sub-cicatricose 

 punctate; elytra closely punctate, bi-costate on each side ; pygidium 

 reddish and having on each side a broad white patch extending 

 sometimes along the base ; sides of abdomen sparely, of pectus 

 densely pubescent ; abdominal segments and epimera maculated with 

 white, legs also pubescent, basal joint of hind tarsi longer and wider 

 than the second, sharply angular outwardly ; antennal club flavous. 



Length 15J-16J mm. ; width 8J— 9-J- mm. 



Hob. Transvaal (Pretoria, Eustenburg, Pietersburg) ; Bechuana- 

 land (Ramoutsa) ; Southern Rhodesia (Hamyani River, Umcheki 

 River) ; N'Gamiland, teste Boheman ; Ovampoland. 



Gen. PHOXOMELA, Sch., 

 Ann. Soc. Ent. d. Franc, 1844, p. 407. 



This genus, which contains one species only, differs from Micrela- 

 phinis in the shape of the clypeus, which is very sharply acuminate 

 laterally in the anterior part, and very deeply incised there ; the 

 palps cavity reach almost the centre of the outer face which thus 

 looks as if it were carinate ; the other chief differences are that the 

 prothorax is plainly arcuate above the scutellum ; the anterior tibiae 

 are dentate at apex only and sinuate above it in the $ , bi-dentate 

 in the $ ; the plane sternal process projects slightly more than in 

 Micrelaphinis , is broader, and only very weakly arcuate at tip ; the 

 elytra are costulate, and shiny ; the basal joint of the hind tarsi are 

 very sharply spinose outwardly in both sexes. 



