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



Key to the Species. 



Scutellum almost impunctate ; anterior clypeal margin plainly 

 emarginate natalensis. 



Scutellum closely aciculate ; anterior clypeal margin slightly sinuate jansoni. 



Kaceloma natalensis, Hope, 



Proc. Ent. Soc, 1841, p. 33 ; 



Westw., Arcan. Entom., i., p. 186, pi. 46, fig. 4, $ . 



B. induta, Sch., Ann. Fr., 1844, p. 404, pi. 11, fig. 4, ? . 



Dark bottle-green, almost black underneath, with the elytra viola- 

 ceous on the sides, but with the scutellum and the median dorsal 

 part either bright green or blue ; antennae piceous, legs very dark 

 green or dark blue ; anterior part of the clypeus plainly emarginate, 

 head deeply and somewhat coarsely punctured as on the prothorax, 

 where the punctures are somewhat closely set, but very uneven ; 

 scutellum with only a few, scattered, shallow punctures ; elytra 

 elongated, very little narrower across the apex than at the base, bi- 

 costulate on each side, and covered with closely set deep punctures 

 which are sometimes surrounded by a smooth raised wall in the 

 anterior dorsal part of the female ; pygidium finely plicate ; pectus 

 hairy in both sexes, but more densely so in the female, the hairs 

 fulvescent. 



Length 16-18 mm. ; width 8-9 mm. 



Hab. Natal (Durban). 



Eaceloma jansoni, Dist., 

 Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., xix., 1897, p. 577. 



Male : Head, prothorax, and scutellum deep green, moderately 

 shiny, immaculate ; elytra dark blue, and without any traces of 

 white marginal bands ; pygidium black, immaculate ; under side 

 legs, antennae, and palpi black ; antennal club as long as the whole 

 head ; clypeus slightly rounded laterally, and slightly sinuate at 

 apex, deeply and closely pitted like the head, on the vertex of the 

 latter the punctures are briefly setigerous ; prothorax very closely 

 and deeply pitted, especially on the sides, in the centre there is a 

 smooth longitudinal line ; scutellum deeply and closely aciculate 

 punctate ; elytra elongate, plainly sinuate laterally, coarsely punc- 

 tate, the punctures deep and cicatricose, bi-costate on each side in 

 the dorsal part, but having also a costule running from the humeral 

 part to two-thirds of the length, and almost parallel with the outer 



