1907.] Catalogue of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 485 



with 2-3 white dots, and a lateral oblique white patch ; elytra with 

 white points, the latter are green, very finely punctate-striate, the 

 lateral striae are strong and deeply impressed behind. 



Var. cyanipennis. Elytra cyaneous, with white dots. 



Var. dorsalis. Elytra without white dots ; thorax black in the 

 centre. 



Var. nigricollis. Elytra without white dots ; thorax completely 

 black. 



Length 8 mm. 



Hab. Southern Zambesi. 



Gen. HOMALOTHYREA, Kolbe, 

 Stett. Entom. Zeit., 1895, p. 288. 



" Similar at first sight to the species of the genus Leucocelis, but the 

 clypeus is less attenuated, the prothorax is arcuate behind, moderately 

 rounded, very little tri-sinuate before the scutellum, almost obtuse 

 with almost no posterior angles ; posterior sutural angle simple ; 

 pectus and abdomen very slightly pilose ; mesosternal process 

 broadly obtuse ; anterior tibiae bi-dentate ; the teeth rather remote ; 

 first joint of the posterior tarsi compressed, posterior upper angle 

 short, acute in the male, elongated, dentiform in the female." 



According to Kolbe, the shape of the first joint of the hind tarsi 

 should lead one to include the genus among the prototypic Cetoninae. 



HOMALOTHYREA FEANKI, Jans., 



Notes Leyd. Mus., x., 1888, p. 109. 



" Head black; closely punctured, the punctures confluent and 

 forming striae on each side between the eyes, slightly convex in the 

 middle, apex of the clypeus reflexed and slightly emarginate in the 

 centre ; antennae red-brown. Thorax red, with a blue or green tinge, 

 the anterior margin, a small spot on each side, a large longitudinal 

 spot in the centre and an ill-defined transverse mark in front of the 

 scutellum black, or green with a bluish tinge, strongly rounded at 

 the base on each side, straight in front of the scutellum, slightly 

 narrowed from the base to the middle, thence rounded and narrowed 

 to apex, the disk rather finely and sparsely punctured, the punctures 

 coarser towards the sides. Scutellum black or green, impunctate, 

 the apex very acute. Elytra red tinged with blue, the entire margin 

 and the apical part blue or blue-black, two lateral spots behind the 

 middle, two (sometimes confluent) close to the apex and a variable 

 number of smaller spots near the suture and outer margin and on the 



