1907.] Catalogue of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 339 



The genus includes only one species which does not seem to have 

 been met beyond the South African area. 



Phoxomela umbrosa, Gory and Perch, 

 Monogr. d. Cet., p. 282, pi. 55, fig. 1. 



abrupta, Sch., Ann. Fr., 1844, p. 407 ; do. 1849, p. 265. 



alessandrini, Bertol., Ins. Mozamb. Dissert., i., p. 18, pi. 1, fig. 5. 



Black, shiny ; prothorax with a lateral, marginal, flavescent 

 white band slightly notched inwardly by the lateral fossule ; elytra 

 with nine flavescent white macules, the two apical ones coalesce along 

 vo.e posterior margin (umbrosa) ; or, (alessandrini) all the macules 

 are orange-yellow, and those on the deflexed sides coalesce along the 

 outer margin so as to form often a longitudinal band emitting a 

 small ramus towards the median part ; pygidium with two super- 

 posed white macules on each side of the centre ; under side immacu- 

 late, but the hind femora have a small white patch on the outer side ; 

 clypeus closely punctuiate, and having occasionally a white patch in 

 the centre ; frontal part clothed with a moderately dense light 

 fulvescent pubescence ; prothorax not very closely punctate ; 

 scutellum without punctures ; elytra bi-costulate on each side, but the 

 costules are obliterated in the anterior and the posterior parts, the 

 intervals are plainly punctate till about the middle, and very closely 

 aciculate thence to the apex in the male, less plainly so in the 

 female, in which the costules are also less well defined ; pygidium 

 finely aciculate ; abdominal segments with a lateral row of 

 punctures ; pectus aciculate and sparingly hairy. 



Length 11-12 mm. ; width 6-7 mm. 



The two forms, umbrosa and alessandrini, are found together. I 

 have ascertained that the colour variation occurs in both the sexes. 



Hob. Natal (Durban, Frere, Zululand), Transvaal (Pretoria, 

 Zoutpansberg, Lydenburg, Potchefstroom, Waterberg), Ehodesia 

 (Bulawayo, Mount Chirinda). 



MICEELAPHINIS, Schoch., 

 Mith. Schweiz. Entom. Gesel., 1896, p. 331. 

 The characters differentiating this new genus from Elaphinis are 

 the shape of the clypeus which is equally oblong-ovate but deeply 

 incised at apex, with the outer angles sharp, and the narrower and 

 much more elongated scutellum ; in the $ the antennal club is as 

 long or longer than the pedicel ; the facies is less robust, although one 

 species (irrorata) is a form of transition. In all the species included 

 in this genus the basal tarsal joint of the very robust hind legs is 



