1907.] Catalogue of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 425 



Port St. John) ; Natal (Durban, Maritzburg, Malvern, Frere, Tugela 

 River) ; the whole of the Transvaal ; Southern Ehodesia (Salisbury, 

 Chirindi Forest, Sebakwe, Enkeldoorn) ; Zanzibar mainland. 



Gen. COSMIOPH^ENA, Kraatz, 

 Deutsch. Entomol. Zeitschr., 1899, p. 120. 



Buccal organs of Micrelaphinis, and clypeus similar in shape ; 

 prothorax not arcuate at the base above the scutellum, the latter 

 long, sharp at apex, about one-third longer than broad ; elytra 

 without any traces of costules, or occasionally with two distinct 

 costules ; sternal process transverse, not projecting beyond the 

 coxae, anterior tibiae bi-dentate ; hind tarsi not aculeate out- 

 wardly. 



Kraatz places this genus in the neighbourhood of Glyciphana. 



Cosmioph^na pilosula, Kraatz, 

 Loc. cit., p. 120. 



Eufescent and with a metallic tinge underneath, opaque on the 

 upper side ; the head and prothorax are green and the base of the 

 latter is narrowly brighter than the disk ; epimera and scutellum 

 sub-flavescent, elytra light brownish with the sides of the scutellary 

 region and the suture, as far as the median part, greenish, the back- 

 ground is dotted with numerous flavous macules ; clypeus attenuated 

 in front, the outer angles are plainly rounded, and the anterior part 

 incised, both the frontal part and the clypeus are closely punctate, 

 the former is briefly pubescent and bears a white band on each side ; 

 the prothorax is moderately closely punctulate, scutellum without 

 punctures; elytra without any traces of costules, the suture itself 

 being only slightly raised in the posterior part, and slightly acu- 

 minate at apex, the posterior margin is briefly pubescent; on the 

 dorsal part are six series of well-defined punctures ; pygidium 

 punctulate, each puncture bearing an appressed fulvescent hair, it 

 bears seven cretaceous splashes; abdominal segments punctulate, 

 each puncture briefly setigerous, each segment covered with a cre- 

 taceous coating for nearly half its length ; pectus with numerous, 

 briefly setigerous punctures. 



Length 10 mm. ; width 5 mm. 



Hab. Transvaal (Zoutpansberg). Mozambique (Guenzera). 



This species is a straggler from the North. It was originally 

 described from the Tanganyka Region. 



