

1907.] Catalogue of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 341 



sculpture, and adorned with white bands or macules which often 

 disappear or are incomplete without having been rubbed off; the 

 background of the elytra is maculated with fuscous on the dis- 

 coidal part, and also on the deflexed part when the white coating 

 does not predominate there. The white bands are more conspicuous 

 in the male, while in the female there are only a few small macules 

 on the prothorax, and hardly any on the sides of the elytra ; in 

 many males the elytra are often without bands or spots, but not so 

 the prothorax which bears always strong traces of a lateral white 

 band. Clypeus lightly punctulate, margins slightly raised, head 

 sparsely hairy in the posterior part ; prothorax dull green, not 

 closely punctate, and with the punctures very shallow, it has on 

 each side a broad band of cretaceous white coating, and in the dis- 

 coidal part are a few minute dots of the same substance ; scutellum 

 impunctate ; elytra ^sub-testaceous with the humeral part very 

 bulging, plainly bi-costate with the suture equally raised in the 

 posterior part and weakly acuminate at apex ; the whole of the 

 deflexed sides and the posterior part are covered with a cretaceous 

 coating as well as the second costal interval and the hind part of the 

 first, but there is always a large spot of the background left un- 

 covered round the posterior callus, the costge are not free from the 

 coating ; pygidium either completely covered with a white coating or 

 only maculated with the same ; abdominal segments each with a 

 broad white band on each side, pectus also white ; in the female this 

 coating is often partly or even completely obliterated ; pectus 

 densely hairy ; anterior tibiae bi-dentate in both sexes, but having an 

 upper sinuation in the female, the basal tarsal joint of the hind legs 

 'is strongly spinose outwardly. 



Length 10|— 12J mm. ; width 6-7 mm. 



Hab. Natal, Transvaal, Cape Colony (eastern part). 



Micrelaphinis ? pumila, Bohem., 

 Insect Caffrar., ii., 1857, p. 40. 



Smaller than the preceding species, but otherwise so similar in 

 colouration and shape that had I not seen a very long series I 

 would have taken it for a dwarfish variety of it. The shape of the 

 genital armature of the male is slightly different. The colour is 

 reddish bronze, the base of the clypeus is maculated with white ; the 

 opaque prothorax has a dull greenish tinge, a lateral white band, and 

 more or less coalescent white patches on the disk ; very often there 

 is a small white spot on each side of the base of the scutellum ; the 

 elytra are plainly bi-costate, the three dorsal intervals nave each 



