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



a series of white spots, and the deflexed part two rows of white 

 macules, but as often as not most of these spots and macules are 

 partly or almost completely obliterated, and in that case irregular 

 fuscous macules are easily discernible ; pygidium and under side as 

 in the preceding species. The antennal club of the $ is very long. 



Length 8§-9J mm. ; width 4J-5J- mm. 



Hah. Natal (Durban, Umvoti, Maritzburg, Zululand). 



MlCRELAPHINIS DELAGOENSIS, Schoch., 



Mith. Schw. Entom. Gesels., 1894, p. 188. 

 gracilis, Schoch., loc. cit., 1896, p. 331. 



The colour of this species is most variable, the male is opaque on 

 the upper side and the female shiny. 



Type. Male : Head, sub-coppery, shiny ; prothorax, scutellum 

 greenish, elytra greenish fuscous with a faint tinge of rufescent in the 

 basal part, or light sienna-brown numerously intermixed with small 

 fuscous patches, the prothorax and the intervals of the elytra are 

 maculated with numerous small white dots, and there are two 

 spots on the scutellum ; the pygidium is broadly maculated with 

 flavescent white, and so are the sides of the pectus ; the abdominal 

 segments have either a lateral macule or an interrupted white band. 



Type. Female : Head and prothorax dark bronze or bronze-green, 

 the latter is either immaculate or spotted with white ; the elytra are 

 black and are numerously dotted with white ; the pygidium has two 

 or four broad lateral macules ; the under side has only a few white 

 dots. 



Var. a. Male and Female: Prothorax and elytra dark green; 

 elytra rufescent for about one-third of the length, the rufescent part 

 extending from the first interval to the outer margin, and black along 

 the suture and the whole of the remaining surface; pygidium and 

 under side not maculated with white. 



Var. b. Male : Prothorax and scutellum opaque dull green, 

 numerously or moderately sparingly sprinkled with white dots ; 

 elytra light sienna-brown unspeckled with white, or with an outer 

 marginal row of remote minute white spots and a few small fuscous 

 macules mixed with a few white spots ; pygidium and under side 

 maculated with white. 



Female : Prothorax and scutellum bronze-red or bronze-green, 

 unspotted, elytra light sienna, with a metallic tinge, the suture con- 

 colorous, or occasionally fuscous ; pygidium with two broad, white 

 patches, under side almost unspotted. 



This variety b closely approximates M. pumila, Boh, 



