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



Gen. LONCHOTHYREA, Kolbe, 



Stett. Entomol. Zeit., 1895, p. 289. 



Body remarkably depressed ; head somewhat broad ; clypeus 

 broad, parallel, straight in front, clypeal margin very little reflexed ; 

 prothorax trapezoidal, moderately narrowed in front, with the base 

 arcuate, although not deeply in front of the scutellum, the lateral 

 margin sinuate before the rounded posterior angles ; elytra depressed, 

 sub-costate, hardly attenuate, sutural apical angle strongly pro- 

 duced ; anterior tibiae bi-dentate externally ; tarsi of the hind legs 

 shorter in each sex than the tibiae, those of the female less slender; 

 mesosternal process broad, plane, broadly arcuate at apex, projecting 

 beyond the coxae and plainly marginate ; scutellum very sharp at 

 apex. 



LONCHOTHYREA MOZAMBICA, Bertol., 



Nov. Comm. Bonon., Disc, hi., 1849, p. 47, pi. 3, fig. 3. 



Black, shiny ; head with a white patch on each side of the frontal 

 part, prothorax with a marginal white line and on each side of the 

 discoidal part a row of four white dots, between this row and the 

 outer margin are two serrate white dots ; elytra with four longi- 

 tudinal series of white dots of the same size as those on the pro- 

 thorax ; pygidium with a transverse row of four white dots, and 

 having also two small dots at the apex ; the four central abdominal 

 segments have each a longitudinal series of white dots, the prothoracic 

 epimera each bear a white spot, and there is a similar dot on the 

 upper angle of the pectus, and also on the under part of the inter- 

 mediate femora near the knee. Body depressed ; clypeus parallel, 

 truncate at apex but with the angles slightly obtuse, head and 

 clypeus deeply punctured, the punctures on the clypeus finer and set 

 more closely than on the frontal part ; prothorax deeply and some- 

 what closely punctate, the punctures in the median part of the disk 

 are less deep than on the sides, and disappear completely above the 

 arcuate part of the base ; on the elytra the inner abbreviated costa 

 on each side is almost plane and smooth, but the two entire outer 

 ones are distinct and sub-tectiform, the punctures in the intervals 

 are very deep, those on the defiexed sides are not seriate ; pygidium 

 closely variolose punctate, the punctures coalescing ; under side 

 glabrous, sides of abdominal segments closely and deeply ovate 

 punctate ; inner part of femora and tibiae briefly pubescent ; palpi 

 and club of antennae rufescent. 



Length 12-14 mm. ; width 6-7 mm. 



Hah, Mozambique (Beira). 



