Anisorhina flavomaculata, Fabr., Pretoria.
var. egregia, Boh.
Melinesthes umbonata, Gory & Perch. Pretoria.
Coplomia umbrosa, Gory & Perch. Pretoria and
Durban, Natal.
Elaphinis irrorata, Fabr. Durban, Natal.
Elaphinis latecostata, Boh. Durban, Natal.
Gametis balteata, De Geer. Pretoria.
Anoploehilus lomentosus, Gory & Perch. Pretoria.
Oxythyrea amabilis, Schaum. Pretoria.
Oxythyrea perroudi, Schaum. Pretoria.
Oxythyrea cinctella, Schaum. Pretoria,
Oxythyrea rubra, Gory & Perch. Pretoria.
Oxythyrea hämorrhoidalis, Fabr. Pretoria.
Oxythyrea ceneicollis, Schaum. Pretoria.
Oxythyrea marginalis, Swartz. Pretoria.
Tephrcea morosa, Schaum. Pretoria.
Trichostethaplacida, Boh. Durban, Natal.
Aplasta dichroa, Schaum. Pretoria.
Cetonia cihcta, Dq Geer. Pretoria and
Charlestown, Natal.
Pachnoda flaviventris, Gory & Perch. Pretoria and Natal.
Pachnoda leucomelana, Gory & Perch. Pretoria.
Rhabdotis aulica, Oliv. Pretoria.
Rhabdotis sobrina, Gory & Perch. Pretoria.
Rhabdotis semipunctata, Fabr. Pretoria.
Diplognatha silicea, McLeay. Pretoria.
Diplognatha hebrcea, Oliv. Pretoria.
Macroma cognata, Schaum. Durban, Natal.
Ptychophorus leucostictus, Schaum. Pretoria.
Spilophorus plag osus, Boh. Pretoria.
Hoplostomus fuligineus, Oliv. Pretoria.
Notes.
Dicer os jiavipennis, Westw., is certainly only a varietal form
of D. algoensis, Westw. The species is very local, only found
on the leaves of one particular shrub with an insignificant
bloom, and both forms occur together.
Oxythyrea hoemorrhoidalis, Fabr.
A variety is very common around Pretoria in which the
ground-colour of the elytra is shining bluish, and not green ;
a scarcer variety is found in which the colour is rosy red.
Rhabdotis aulica, Oliv.
I took a variety of this species in which the upper surface is
rosy red, not green.
S e r r i c o r n i a .
Both Buprestidæ and Elateridæ are very scarce at Pretoria,
the bare plains being apparently uncongenial habitats for the
group. Still the largest and handsomest species of the Transvaal
Buprestidæ (Sternocera orissa, var.) is found on the few
scattered Acacias which are thinly distributed on the veld, as
before described [ante, p. 91).
Elateridæ are probably much more numerous, and the few
species here enumerated give little idea of this Coleopterous
family as found even on the high veld.
My best thanks are due to Dr. Candèze, of Liège, for his
determination of these obscure Elaters.
Fam. Buprestibas.
Sternocera orissa, Buq., var. litu-
rata, White.
Amblysterna vittipennis, Boh.
Scaptelytra sulphureovittata, Fahr.
Psiloptera gregaria, Fahr.
Psiloptera viridimarginata, Fahr.
Psiloptera calamitosa, Fahr.
Chalcogenia cuprea, Lap. & Gory.
Melybceus crassus, Lap. & Gory.
Fam. E l a t e r id a i .
Aliteus adspersus, Herbst.
Psephus puncticollis, Boh.
Heteroderes inscriptus, Erich.
Cardiophorus prcemorsus, Boh.
Pleonomus wahlbergi, Cand.
Waterberg and
Pretoria.
Zoutspansberg.
Durban, Natal.
Pretoria.
Zoutpansberg.
Zoutpansberg.
Pretoria.
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