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15a. Yellow coloration extending only up to the middle of the elytra and 

 provided with more or less large dark brown spots, besides the brownish 



black punctures 4. hninneo-iyiinctatun, Hintz. 



14«. Elytra yellow, with a dark longitudinal dab alongside the margin and almost 

 entirely smoky grey in the posterior half ; prothorax red . . . . 7. mitiit, Kl. 



la . No pale spot before the apex of the elytra 6. albosparsus, Schklg. 



3fl. Elytra unicolorous. 



16. Whole upper surface unicolorous. 



17. Elytra irregularly finely rugulose, without rows of punctures 



10. rugoxus, Hintz. 

 17a. Elytra with rows of punctures, which are rarely indistinct. 



18. Upper side brick-red 11. miniatHs, Hintz. 



18a. Upper side not red. 



19. Prothorax with three weak tubercles ; legs unicolorous .. 12. Jlavits, Hintz. 

 19a. Prothorax without tubercles; femora red with black apex, tibiae and tarsi 



brown Id. jmnctatm, Hintz. 



16a. Head and prothorax pitchy black, elytra yellowish or greenish bi-own 



14. t't?Y.srcn.s, Chevr. 

 2a. Prothorax divided by several longitudinal and transverse furrows into more or 

 less convex areas. 



20. Prothorax as broad as or broader than long. 



21. The punctures of the elytra along the suture arranged in double rows 

 posteriorly 18. gemellatm, Schklg. 



21a. Elytra without double rows of punctures. 



22. Legs simply yellow ; elytra indistinctly punctate . . . . 19. pallidiis, Schklg. 

 22a. Legs yellow with dark knees ; elytra more distinctly punctate 17. indicm, F. 

 20rt. Prothorax much longer than broad, with a dark longitudinal stripe along the 



sides 20. elegans, Schklg. 



la. Elytra blood-red or dark red in front. 



23. At least half of the elytra red, the white middle band continuous, divided at 

 most by the dark suture 15. tricolor, Schklg. 



23a. One-third only of the elytra red, in the other two-thirds a yellowish white 

 band, which is strongly abbreviated and rounded off at the suture 



16. sponsalis, Schklg. 



Gen. THANASIMUS, Latr. 

 Thanasimus peotoralis, n. sp. 



Niger, nigro-crinitus, capite prothoraceque subtiliter rugulosis, 

 fronte carinata, elytris antice grosse seriatim foveolatis, dein seriathn 

 punctatis, antice sanguineis, fasciis duabus, una mediana, altera 

 ante aincevi, flavido-sericeis, 2)ectore abdominisque segmentibus primis 

 rufis. — LoBg. 8 mm. — Ehodesia (Sebakwe). 



Shorter and broader than the other African species of Thanasimus, 

 with red bases of the elytra known to me. Head and prothorax 

 entirely black, finely rugulose, frons with a fine but distinct and long 

 keel, antennae and palps black. Elytra blood-red almost to the 

 middle, then black, on the middle a narrow curved transverse band 

 9,nd before the apex a broad one abbreviated at both ends, densely 



