1907.] Catalogue of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 385 



anterior tibiae of $ strongly incised and hamate inwardly at the 

 base, and pluri-dentate along the inner part, dentate outwardly 

 at apex, but having underneath a short, tooth-like process, which 

 is not, however, a lateral tooth, fifth joint of anterior tarsi densely 

 pubescent underneath ; in the ? the anterior tibiae are strongly 

 tri-dentate outwardly, and the fifth joint of the anterior tarsi 

 glabrous. 



This genus consists of one species which seems to be restricted 

 to the South African area, and is replaced in British and German 

 East Africa by another having a similar livery, but included into 

 another genus, or sub-genus (Mephistis), owing to some difference in 

 the shape of the armature of the $ . 



Eanzania petersiana, Klug, 

 Plate XLV., fig. 1. 



Monatsb. Berl. Acad., 1855, p. 660; 

 Peter's Eeis. n. Moss., 1862, p. 262, pi. 15, fig. 7. 

 splendens, Bertol. Mem. Ac. Bologn. vi., 1855, p. 420, pi. 21, 

 figs. 1-7; 



Thorns., Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr., 1856, p. 320, pi. 7, figs. 2-3. 



Male : Bright, shiny green, glabrous, under side of clypeus and 

 abdomen with a reddish-golden sheen ; antennae piceous ; head and 

 clypeus covered with a chalky-white coating, the basal hooked horns 

 and the outer margins of the clypeus are black; prothorax very 

 faintly aciculate and having on each side of the base a short, narrow, 

 sub-transverse white band, which is probably extending all along 

 the base in some examples ; scutellum with two lateral white 

 macules ; the elytra are covered with a white coating except the 

 suture which is green like the humeral and supra-apical callus ; 

 and on each side of the point of the scutellum there is also a small, 

 sub-quadrate patch of the green background showing; pygidium 

 completely covered by the cretaceous coating ; sides of the meta- 

 and meso-sternum cretaceous ; under side and legs glabrous ; hind 

 tibiae not dentate. 



Female : Green, and with a reddish-golden sheen underneath 

 like the male, but on the upper side less shiny ; the head and 

 clypeus are cretaceous white ; the prothorax has no white markings 

 and is nearly smooth in the centre only, the sides being distinctly 

 punctured ; the scutellum is quite smooth ; the elytra have a 

 broad marginal white band ascending the suture at apex and 

 expanding there from the suture to about the median part into a 

 broad, elongate band, the green uncovered part is sprinkled with 



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