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



pi. xli., fig. 57 (read fraudulenta instead of dubiosa in explanation of 

 plate), but the branches are a little broader, quite symmetrical and 

 with the apical angles neither sharp nor quite rounded. 



Length 13 mm. ; width 7 mm. 



Hob. Transvaal (Potchefstroom). 



Schizonycha citima, Pering., Catal. ii., p. 225. 



This species shows a great variation in the punctuation of the 

 prothorax, according to their habitat. In the type form, from 

 Northern Ehodesia (Manica), the punctures are somewhat sparse 

 and shallow. But in examples from Salisbury and Plumtree, also 

 in Southern Ehodesia, Nyslstroom in the Transvaal, Vryburg in 

 Bechuanaland, and Bothaville in the Orange Eiver Colony, the 

 punctuation is closely set, and almost similar to that of S. valida 

 (Cat. ii., p. 224), whereas the shape of the genital organs of the male 

 remain the same. 



Sub-Family CETONIN^. 



Gen. GNATHOCEEA, Kirby. 

 Gnathocera impressa, Oliv. 

 Ent., i., 6, p. 39, pi. 8, fig. 71. 



Black opaque on the upper side, which is adorned with numerous 

 sulphureous yellow bands and macules ; antennas, legs and under 

 side ferruginous red. On the upper side the opaque or little shiny 

 coating hides nearly the sculpture ; projections of the anterior part 

 of the clypeus long, sharp, anterior part strigillate, posterior not 

 very numerously punctate, in the frontal part are two lateral yellow 

 macules on each side, and a larger one above the eye ; prothorax of 

 the normal shape of the genus, indistinctly punctulate, the punc- 

 tures being partly hidden by the coating, in the centre is a longi- 

 tudinal yellow band reaching from apex to base and an outer 

 marginal one entire and slightly broader than the median ; scutellum 

 very sharply triangular and with a median yellow band that seems 

 to be a continuation of the prothoracic one ; elytra attenuate behind, 

 more deeply punctate than on the prothorax and with two high 

 rounded costae on each side, in each of these first two intervals is a 

 series of spots or macules set very near each other, and probably 

 occasionally partly coalescing, on the outer margin is a moderately 

 broad band of the same colour the inner edge of which is produced on 

 a short spur approaching very much one of the macules of the second 

 interval, and also slightly enlarged at the apical part of the suture ; 

 pygidium with two transverse yellow patches ; each of the abdominal 



