1907.] Catalogue of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 395 



tate ; the elytra are not costulate but the supra-lateral elevation 

 delimitating the dorsal part is plain, they are most sparsely and 

 finely aciculate, the colour is very variable, the shiny green or yellow 

 predominating according to the direction of the light falling upon 

 them ; pygidium with transverse punctures, under side glabrous 

 except for a few hairs on the sides of the pectus, and on the inner 

 face of the sternal process ; inner face of outer part of anterior 

 femora moderately pubescent ; inner part of tibiae and also the knees 

 somewhat infuscate. The colouration of the prothorax is extremely 

 variable, it may be totally green with a supra-lateral anterior black 

 patch, and two median elongated ones broader at apex than at base ; 

 coppery green with a supra-lateral black patch and three comma- 

 shaped ones disposed longitudinally on each side of the median 

 part ; the whole disk may be black with a coppery border, or 

 entirely green without traces of black markings. 



Female : Coloured like the male, but the piceous black thorax has 

 a broad greenish flavescent lateral margin, and a median longitudinal 

 band of the same colour which reaches from the apex to the base or 

 not ; the head and clypeus are almost foveolate punctate, and some 

 fine punctures are discernible on the prothorax ; the scutellum, 

 however, is impunctate, and the elytra bear series of aciculate 

 punctures almost obliterated in the posterior part but more distinct 

 on the sides ; the sculpture of the legs and under side is rougher than 

 in the male. 



Length 27-30 mm. (horns excl.), width 13-14 mm. 



Hab. Southern Ehodesia (Manica, Gazaland, Mt. Chirinda). 



It is said by Mr. G. A. K. Marshall to attack pineapples. 



Gen. CCELOEEHINA, Burm., 



Handb. d. Entomol., vol. iii., 1842, p. 207. 



Mentum ampliate and rounded laterally, ligular part narrower 

 than the mentum, nearly parallel but with the palps cavity only 

 moderately wide, the inner maxillary lobe is hamate in both sexes, 

 much more sharply in the $ than in the $ , but the styliform 

 upper one is slightly hamate in that sex only, that of the $ being 

 sharply mucronate ; antennae shorter than the pedicel ; in the $ the 

 head is hollowed from the base the margin of which bears a short, 

 bifid median process or two contiguous horizontal teeth, to the 

 apex, the sides of the head, which is hollowed from the base, are 

 parallel with the apical angles bluntly rounded but projecting 

 very distinctly beyond the anterior margin of the clypeus, the 

 centre of which is produced into a more or less incurved horn 



