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



rufescent and has two white macules on each side ; sternal process 

 quite transverse. 



Length 9 mm. ; width 4f mm. 



Hah. Transvaal (Johannesburg). 



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



Leucocelis (Cyrtothyrea) brevis, Kolb., 

 Stett. Ent. Zeit., vol. 56, 1895, p. 286. 



" Short, moderately convex, totally black, shiny, spotted with white 

 on the upper side, posterior margin of prothorax sinuate above the 

 scutellum ; elytra sub-bicostate with the inner costa abbreviated, dis- 

 tinctly and almost roughly punctate striate, and with five geminate 

 striae on each side, some of the punctures semicircularly dug out ; 

 pygidium with a white macule on each side and annulate punctate ; 

 abdomen and pectus shiny, sparsely flavo-pilose, glabrous in the 

 centre." 



Length 8J mm. 



Hab. Transvaal (Swazieland). 



I have not yet met with this species, which seems to differ from 

 L. testaceoguttata in having the pygidium black. 



Leucocelis discolor, Kolb., 

 Loc. cit., 1895, p. 292. 



" Black, sub-aeneous, pygidium and the two last abdominal 

 segments red, legs black, sub- aeneous ; prothorax red, and having 

 a median broad (black) band reaching from apex to base ; elytra 

 green, cyaneous or amethystine and maculated with white ; prothorax 

 with an irregular, oblique, sub-marginal band, and bearing four 

 discoidal macules, rounded behind, straight or most slightly sub- 

 sinuate above the scutellum ; striae of elytra geminate punctate, 

 fourth stria reaching the posterior callus, or abbreviated, intervals 

 plane in the anterior half ; prothorax moderately punctate nearly all 

 over, but more densely so in the anterior part, and without any 

 median discoidal stria ; pygidium covered with regular, ringed 

 punctures, separated from each other. 



Length 8*5-9-5 mm. 



Kolbe compares this species with L. adspersa, of which it is a 

 close ally. 



Leucocelis nickerli, Kraatz, 

 Deutsch. Entomol. Zeitschr., 1895, p. 362. 



II Black, shiny, prothorax, pygidium anal segment red ; thorax 



