

1907.] Catalogue of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 475 



Gen. LEPTOTHYREA, Kraatz, 

 Deutsch. Entom. Zeitschr., 1882, p. 72. 



Buccal organs of Mausoleopsis, with which it is so closely allied 

 that the only distinctive characters are the sub-parallel elytra, and 

 the sternal process which is more ampliated and strongly arcuate at 

 apex ; the inner claw of the anterior tarsi and the hind legs are 

 simple in both sexes. In the female the anterior tibiae are somewhat 

 sharply sinuate above the second outer tooth. The livery is that of 

 Mausoleopsis, the facies that of Pseudotephrcea, but slightly more 

 attenuate behind. 



Leptothyrea perroudi, Schaum., 



Plate XLVIL, fig. 27. 

 Ann. Soc. Ent. Franc, 1844, p. 410. 



Black, shiny ; clypeus truncate at apex, not acuminate, frontal 

 part deeply punctate and with two or three white macules on each 

 side ; prothorax moderately narrowed laterally in the anterior part, 

 and with the base straight, moderately deeply but closely punctate, 

 and having on each side a broad white band and two rows of three 

 punctures each on the discoidal part ; some of those punctures may 

 be obliterated, but the two basal ones are always showing; scutellum 

 impunctate ; elytra with the entire dorsal costa very sharp, and the 

 inner one short, the basal part is roughly punctate and the punc- 

 tures on the deflexed sides are for the most part covered by three 

 broad and long white marginal macules partly coalescent at times, 

 on the humeral part there is a distinct white dot, and a small white 

 patch at the apex, in the dorsal part are several small white dots the 

 number of which is sometimes variable, and also a small median sub- 

 transverse macule which occasionally unites with the median lateral 

 patch ; pygidium with two irregular, large white macules often 

 coalescing ; sides of abdomen and pectus maculated with white, 

 knees and epimera with a white mark. 



Length 10J—12 mm. ; width 6-7 mm. 



Hab. The whole of Natal, of the Transvaal, and of Southern 

 Rhodesia. In the Cape Colony it has been recorded only from the 

 border of Natal. I am not aware of it having being found in the 

 Orange River Colony or to the west of it, nor in Damaraland or 

 Ovampoland, 



