502 Transactions South African Philosojihical Society, [vol. xiii. 



elytra are very shiny and almost glabrous except for a few scaly 

 white hairs in the posterior and apical parts, they bear a few ovate, 

 not scale-bearing, punctures at the base and on the deflexed dorsal 

 part, and they have on each side a small juxta-sutural silvery-white 

 dot at about the median part and three somewhat large pearly 

 patches, the first, a transverse one, is about median and reaches 

 from the outer margin to the sharp dorsal keel, the second is apical, 

 and the third is situated in the posterior outer margin ; pygidium 

 hairy and with two white macules on each side ; under side sparsely 

 hairy ; metasternum with a lateral, cretaceous patch. 



This species is distinguished from 0. intrusus by its almost 

 glabrous and more glossy upper side, and by the broader and much 

 more conspicuous white patches on the elytra. 



Length 7J-10 mm. ; width 3J-5J mm. 



Hab. Southern Khodesia (Victoria Falls, Salisbury, Sebakwe, 

 Enkeldoorn, Mazoe). 



Cymophoeus hilaris, Bohem., 



Insect. Caffr., ii., p. 48 ; 



Westw., Thesaur. Entomol., p. 16, pi. viii., fig. 10. 



" This pretty species is distinguished not only by its orange - 

 coloured elytra, with a broad irregular black sutural mark, but also 

 by the hind part of the prothorax not being narrowed at the 

 shoulders. The clypeus has the sides, and especially the front 

 margin, elevated ; the head and pronotum are finely punctured ; the 

 sides of the elytra strongly punctured ; the humeral and discoidal 

 impressions of the latter are striolate ; the disk glossy and finely but 

 distantly punctured. The body beneath is shining ; the sides of the 

 metasternum strigosely punctured ; the abdomen blood-red and 

 glossy. The anterior tibiae in the female are very slightly notched 

 below the apex rather than bi-dentate. 



Length 6-9 mm. ; width 3-4f mm. 



Hab. The neighbourhood of the Limpopo Eiver." 



I have not met with this species. 



Cymophorus rubronotatus, Pering., 

 Trans. S. Afric. Philos. Soc, iii., 1885, p. 99. 



Black, moderately shiny, not squamose ; head and clypeus very 

 closely punctate, and covered with moderately closely set, appressed, 

 sub-flavescent hairs ; prothorax quite straight from the ampliate 

 anterior part to the basal angle, base arcuately emarginate above the 

 scutellum, closely punctate, the punctures are ovately transverse, 



