1907.] Catalogue of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 449 



macules, moderately large with smaller ones intervening. The 

 livery, sculpture, and vestiture are very similar to those of E. nigro- 

 punctata, the size is very much smaller, the clypeus especially in the 

 male is more oblong with the angles more rounded, and the fore 

 margin more deeply scooped but also more raised ; the anterior 

 tibiae of the male are dentate at apex only and sinuate above the 

 tooth ; those of the female are bi-dentate, but the teeth are not 

 closely set, and there is only a slight upper sinuation ; the pectus 

 and femora are densely hairy, the hairs flavescent ; the black 

 pygidium is occasionally splashed with a cretaceous coating. 



Length 9J-10J- mm. ; width 5f-6 mm. 



Hab. Transvaal (Barberton). 



(Species which I have not been able to identify.) 



Elaphinis carinicollis, Ki\, 

 Deutsch. Entomol. Zeits., 1895, p. 382. 



" Similar to E. tigrina 01iv.,but more obscure, under side fuscous, 

 greenish bronze, shiny, upper side opaque ; the densely punctate 

 head and the prothorax are greenish, the latter is concolorous, sub- 

 carinate from the median part to the apex, sometimes rufous trans- 

 lucid above the scutellum ; elytra rufous brown, tessellate with black ; 

 pygidium closely striolate, variegated with white, anterior tarsi 

 sub-tridentate. 



Length 13 mm. 



Hab. Canraria." 



Most probably a slight variety of the very variable E. tigrina. 



Group PORPHYEONOTII. 



In this group are included insects with a depressed, sub-hexagonal 

 prothorax, and with entire, impunctate, geminate striae on each 

 interval of the elytra ; they are remarkable by their livery, which is 

 rufescent-brown or testaceous tessellated with fuscous. The maxillae 

 are either simple or plainly dentate ;. the hind tibiae of the genus 

 Porphyronota are serrate spinose on the upper side ; the clypeal 

 anterior angles are moderately rounded or reflexed. 



Gen. NIPHETOPHOEA, Kraatz, 

 Deutsch. Entom. Zeitschr., 1883, p. 384. 

 Oxyrrhaphia, Kolbe, Stett. Ent. Zeit., 1895, p. 279. 



Mentum short, broader than long, hardly sinuate in front, maxillae 



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