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Upper part of the body metallic; elytra 

 green, greenish, blue, sometimes red, seldom 

 black. 



e 2 . Basal joints of hind tarsi not dilated nor 

 spinose outwards. 



Sternal process comparatively short, sub-) Leucocelis. 

 arcuate at apex f Erythroderma. 



e\ Basal joint of hind tarsi dilated outwardly Homalothyrea. 



Body black and white, not metallic. 



Sternal process longer. 

 b 1 . Sexual differences. 



Inner claw of fore tarsi conspicuously 

 longer and somewhat malformed in the S ; 

 hind femora of same sex often arcuate . . Mausoleopsis. 



Gen. CLINTEEOIDES, Schoch., 

 Mith. Schw. Ent. Gesells., x., 1898, p. 102. 



This genus is differentiated from Pseudoclinteria by the more 

 obtuse and quite horizontal sternal process, the deeply punctate 

 prothorax, the elytra strongly bi-costate on each side with two 

 geminate strioles in each interval, and the plainly triangular basal 

 joint of the hind tarsi in both sexes. 



The genus seems to be restricted to South Africa, but one of the 

 species is probably a straggler from East Central Africa. 



Key to the Species. 



Upper side glabrous ; prothorax without a supra-basal longitudinal 



median keel permutans. 



Upper side briefly pubescent ; prothorax with a supra-basal longi- 

 tudinal median keel cariosa. 



ClilNTEROIDES PERMUTANS, Burm., 



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



bomi, Schoch., Mith. Schw. Ent. Ges., 1894, p. 188. 



Type. Black, glabrous on the upper side, the prothorax with a 

 moderately narrow lateral marginal white band ; elytra black, 

 sprinkled with white spots varying in number from 15 to 10 ; 

 pygidium with 4 or 6 white spots ; abdominal segments occasionally 

 with a few white macules and with or without a white lateral band. 

 The colouration of this type form is the rarest ; in most examples the 



