1907.] Catalogue of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 479 



Leucocelis amethystina, McLeay, 



Plate XLVIL, fig. 20. 



Illustr. Zool. S. Afric. Invert., 1849, p. 48. 



Black, with the two apical abdominal segments red, the prothorax 

 is red, but the median part of the base has a broad, transverse black 

 band ; the elytra are much attenuated behind and are greenish blue, 

 bluish, or amethystine violet without any traces of white macules, or 

 having three rows of minute white dots on each side ; the pygidium is 

 immaculate ; and the sides of the pectus and of the abdomen are 

 more strigillate than cicatricose punctate, as in L. hcemorhoidalis 

 which it so closely resembles that were it not for the differently 

 shaped genital clasps of the male, and the transverse black basal 

 band of the elytra, which is constant, it might be mistaken for the 

 former. 



Length 10-11 mm. ; width 5J-6 mm. 



Hob. Cape Colony (Kimberley) ; Transvaal; Southern Ehodesia, 

 Damaraland, Ovampoland, Mozambique. 



In examples from Umtali in Southern Ehodesia, each elytron has 

 three series of small white dots. 



Leucocelis h^mobhoidalis, Fabric, 



Plate XLVIL, fig. 19. 



Syst. Entom., App., p. 819. 



Gory and Perch., Mon., p. 298, pi. 57, fig. 8. 



Herbst. Kaf., vol. 3, p. 246, pi. 31, fig. 1. 



Olivier, Entom., vol. 1, p. 56, 66, pi. 11, fig. 246. 



dysenterica, McLeay, 111. Zool. Afric, hi., p. 48. 

 dysenterica, Bohem., Ins. Caffr., ii., p. 24. 

 rubra, de Geer, Mem. Ins., vii., p. 643, pi. 48, fig. 6. 

 vitticollis, Bohem., Ins. Caffr., ii., p. 25. 



Bronze-black, with the two apical abdominal segments rufescent, 

 the prothorax broadly red laterally (var. vitticollis), almost completely 

 red, or entirely black; (var. nigricollis) pygidium red. Head very 

 closely punctate but with the punctures of the clypeus finer and 

 more shallow than those on the frontal part ; prothorax moderately 

 closely punctate in the anterior part, but much less so in the pos- 

 terior, and without any white macules or impressions ; scutellum 

 impunctate, but occasionally with a few fine punctures ; elytra much 

 attenuated behind, bright green or greenish blue with a violaceous 

 tinge, seldom with any traces of white markings except on the 

 posterior margin, but in the variety vitticollis, Bob., there are three 



