

1907.] Catalogue of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 487 



Prothorax greatly attenuated towards the apex, and having on 

 each side two large white lateral patches and a small basal white 

 dot; elytra with three marginal white patches and one dot, 

 dorsal par with fine white dots albomaculata. 



Prothorax not much attenuated towards the apex, and bearing- 

 six or eight white dots ; elytra with eleven or fourteen white 

 dots ; clypeus and pygidium red rubric eps. 



Mausoleopsis amabilis, Schaum., 



Plate XLVIL, fig. 25. 



Ann. Soc. Ent. d. France, 1884, p. 408. 



Ooquerel, loc. oit., 1848, p. 280, pi. 8, figs. 3, 4. 



Black, shiny, antennae piceous black; frontal part slightly im- 

 pressed on each side near the eyes, more deeply and less closely 

 punctured than on the clypeus ; prothorax broad, only moderately 

 attenuate laterally in the anterior part, the base is arcuate, but the 

 central part is almost straight above the scutellum, the disk is very 

 closely punctate in the anterior and median part, but less so in the 

 posterior especially in the male, and there are on each side two 

 elongated white patches, the anterior of which is half the size of the 

 posterior, the two seldom commingle, and there are two marginal 

 white dots very seldom obliterated in the base ; the humeral part of 

 the elytra is remarkably bulging, and the posterior part is greatly 

 attenuate on that account, the disk and the sides have series of 

 cicatricose more or less shallow punctures, and they are each adorned 

 with a supra-median, sub-quadrate, somewhat large marginal white 

 patch, a sub-arcuate one past the middle and a transverse one ex- 

 tending along the apical margin, in some examples from the extreme 

 northern part of the South African area there are occasionally one or 

 two white dots near the suture, and I know of examples from 

 Ovampoland where there are three such spots, and also a marginal one 

 below the second lateral patch ; pygidium transversely plicate, and 

 having on each side a white patch ; abdominal segments with a tiny 

 white macule, upper part of coxse with an ovate one, sides of meta- 

 sternum with a broad white patch ; abdominal segments roughly 

 punctate longitudinally on the sides, pectus briefly pubescent, the 

 pubescence silvery, metasternum cicatricose laterally, and punctate 

 in the median part ; hind femora of male thickened, arcuate, tibiae 

 broad, laminate inwardly, inner claw spes,.:-like but contorted. 



Length 9-12^ mm. ; width 5-7 mm. 



The whole of South Africa with the exception of the Cape 

 Colony. 



