1907.] Catalogue of the Goleoptera of South Africa. 401 



Length 27-29 mm. ; width 13 mm. 



Hab. Southern Ehodesia (Salisbury, Mazoe). 



Feeds on Acacia gum, or wounded branches of other trees. 



Eccoptocnemis relucens, Bates, 



Plate XLVIL, fig. 17. 

 Entom. Magaz., xviii., 1880, p. 157. 



Male : Head, prothorax, scutellum black, tibiae very dark red, 

 almost piceous ; elytra green with a strong bluish tinge, under side 

 and tibiae dark chestnut-red ; antennae piceous ; in the general build 

 and outline this species closely resembles E. barthi, and were it not 

 for the punctuation of the prothorax, and the great dissimilarity of 

 the genital armature of the male, this very distinct species might be 

 easily mistaken for a colour variety of the same. The prothorax, 

 however, is most finely and closely shagreened except along the 

 median longitudinal part, instead of being plainly punctate later- 

 ally ; the finely alutaceous elytra have no traces of punctures, 

 and the suture is distinctly black ; the sub-rufescent pygidium is 

 closely and finely plicate longitudinally ; the hind tibiae are glabrous 

 inwardly, the inner sinuate ridge is much more raised, and the 

 space between it and the upper edge much more deeply grooved 

 than in E. barthi. 



Female differs from the male merely in having the anterior tibiae 

 tri-dentate outwardly, and the hind tibiae of normal shape. The 

 sculpture is the same as in the male. 



Hab. Mozambique (Beira). The species was originally described 

 from Mamboia and Mwapwa in German East Africa. 



Length 25-30 mm. ; width 12-15 mm. 



Gen. SCYTHEOPESTHES, Kraatz, 

 Entom. Monatsbl., ii., 1880, p. 29. 



Anisorrhina, Westw. 

 Genyodonta (part), Burm. 



Mentum very little ampliated laterally with the ligular part as 

 broad as the mentum, the outer angles are obtusely rounded, and the 

 anterior part broadly and very deeply emarginate in the centre, palps 

 cavity long, broadly open, outer face of mentum and ligula clothed 

 with long almost bristle-like hairs ; maxillae somewhat robust, inner 

 lobe simple, upper lobe, short, transverse, also simple and sur- 

 mounted by a very thick and long brush of hairs ; head simple in 

 both sexes, clypeus more deeply incised in front of the antennae 



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