South African Coleopterous Fauna, 173 



GEN. STYPHKOMEKUS, Chaud. 

 STYPHROMEEUS PLAUSIBILIS, n. sp. 



Testaceous-red, abdomen black ; elytra parallel, black with a basal, 

 narrow, elongated flavescent patch extending from the sixth interval 

 to the outer margin and rounding the shoulder, and a supra-apical, 

 sub-quadrangular patch of the same colour extending from the fourth 

 to the seventh intervals and situated at a short distance from the- 

 apex, the outer margin has a narrow yellowish-red band continued 

 as a mere line along the apical part and along the suture to about 

 the middle, they are plainly costate, finely shagreened, and clothed 

 with a sub-flavescent appressed pubescence. 



Length 9J mm ; width 34- mm. 



Easily distinguished from the other species by the parallel elytra, 

 the much more raised and tectiform elytral costee, and the narrow 

 elytral yellow markings. 



Hab. Southern Ehodesia (Salisbury). G. A. K. Marshall. 



TEIBE LEBIINI. 



GEN. CALLIDA, Dej. 

 CALLIDA NIGRIPES, n. sp. 



Head, prothorax, and the two basal joints of the elytra darkish 

 red ; elytra greenish-blue, pygidium fuscous ; legs, abdomen, and 

 meta- and mesosternuin black ; head impunctate ; prothorax cordate, 

 as broad at its widest part as long, moderately narrow in the posterior 

 part, and not strongly sinuate there, there are no traces of punctures, 

 and only a very faint transverse plication laterally ; elytra punctato- 

 striate, with the intervals plane on the dorsal part, somewhat 

 carinate laterally, and having an irregular series of very faint 

 punctures. 



This species is easily distinguished from all the other South 

 African species by the colouration of the legs and under side, as well 

 as by the impunctate prothorax. 



Length 9-9-J mm. ; width 3 mm. 



Hab. Natal, Zululand. Dr. H. Martin. 



CALLIDA FERVIDA, n. sp. 



Head black, with the neck red ; prothorax and whole under side 

 red ; palpi infuscate, antennae black, with the three basal joints and 



