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hood of Salisbury have the prothorax shaped as in the present 

 species, and the legs, except the tarsi, are wholly black, but the 

 partly infuscate antennal joints and the yellow markings of the 

 elytra are quite the same as in the typical fldvo-signatus. It is this 

 varietal form which Chaudoir noticed in Eev. and Mag. d. Zool., 

 1878, p. 145, as coming from Mornbassa, adding, however, that he 

 could not bring himself to separate specifically the example he saw 

 from T. flavo-signatus, from Senegal, " which with slight modifica- 

 tions in the shape of the prothorax and the colour of the tarsi seems 

 to have a wide range in Africa ; " he mentions also the Cape and 

 Natal in this area of distribution. I have seen one example only of 

 T. iMjubrinus, but I do not think that it is a melanic form of T. 

 flavo-signatus. 



Length 11 mm. ; width 44 mm. 



Hab. Southern Khodesia (Umtali). A. Bodong. 



TKIBE GBAPHIPTBEINI. 



GEN. GEAPHIPTEEUS, Latr. 

 GRAPHIPTERUS SHEBANUS, n. sp. 



Black with the three basal joints of antennae piceous-red ; head, 

 prothorax, and elytra covered with dense, appressed flavescent hairs, 

 but each elytron has a broad black band on each side ; the head is 

 massive, the prothorax short and broad but not angular in the 

 anterior part, both head and prothorax are very closely scabrose- 

 punctate, but the prothorax is not denuded in the centre, and the 

 colour of the hairs is uniform ; elytra sub-elongate-quadrate, dis- 

 tinctly rounded laterally only near the shoulder, sub-striate, hairs 

 concolorous, the band on each side is about half the width of each 

 dorsal area, situated at a short distance from the suture, and begins 

 at a short distance from the base, but does not reach quite the apical 

 margin ; legs and under side glabrous, shining. 



This species belongs to the group of G. macrocephalus and G. 

 cliaudoiri. It is distinguished from the latter by its larger size, the 

 more quadrate elytra, and the disposition of the discoidal bands 

 which are broader in proportion and reach nearer to the base and 

 apex. 



Length 15-16 mm. ; width 7-8 mm. 



Hab. Transvaal (Barberton). 



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