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



Discopeltis tricolor, Burm., 

 Handb. d. Entom., iii., 1842, p. 600. 



Black, head and clypeus, central part of the prothorax, a large 

 quadrate patch on the elytra below the scutellum, and pygidium red, 

 white patches as in D. vidua. It is so closely allied to the former 

 as to make me doubtful of its specific value. I have seen female 

 examples only, and I cannot thus make use of the shape of the genital 

 armature to distinguish the two. My examples are, however, more 

 elongated, and the two rows of punctures of the elytra between the 

 suture and the first interval reach the base although less plain there 

 than in the posterior part. In D. vidua they are completely 

 obliterated there. 



Length 12J mm. ; width 7 mm. 



Hab. Southern Ehodesia (Victoria Falls) ; Transvaal (Lydenburg, 

 Waterberg). 



Gen. AMAZULA, Kraatz, 

 Deutsch. Entomol. Zeitschr., 1882, p. 51. 



The only species included in this genus has almost all the charac- 

 teristics of Stethodema, except that the sternal process is more 

 porrect and slightly hamate inwardly at the tip, but it is not more 

 produced towards the anterior femora than in Stethodema. The 

 livery, however, is very different ; the scutellum is completely 

 hidden by the apical part of the prothorax ; and the elytra have 

 no traces of costules, and are thus intermediate in shape between 

 those of Stethodema and of Pseudoclinteria. 



Amazula suavis, Burm., 



Plate XLV., fig. 7. 



Handb. d. Entomol., v., 1847, p. 554. 



egregia, Boh., Ofv. Vet. Ak. Forh., 1860, p. 117. 



tricolorata, Westw., Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1874, p. 477, pi. 8, fig. 4. 



Black, clothed on the upper side with an opaque tomentum ; sides 

 of prothorax broadly white from the apex to about the median part 

 and sub-crimson red thence to the base ; elytra with a broad, trans- 

 verse, or transversely ovate white patch extending at about the 

 median part from the outer margin to about the middle of the disk, 

 and at the apex there is a marginal one, much smaller, transverse, 

 about equi-distant from the outer margin and from the suture ; 

 pygidium red, opaque, and with two white macules ; the two penul- 

 timate abdominal segments, and also the metasternal epimera bear 

 a large white patch, smaller, however, on the first penultimate seg- 



