74 Transactions Soulli African riiilosophical Society, [vol. xii. 



Hah. Bechnanaland (Kanye), Southern Ehodesia (Limpopo Eiver, 

 Buluwayo, Umcheki Eiver), Mozambique (Tette, teste Klug). 



Gymnopleurus cupreus, Fahr., 

 Insect. Caffr., ii., p. 189. 



Coppery-reel, moderately sliining on the upper and under side, 

 legs of the same colour ; head covered with very closely set, distinct 

 granules, central part of the head with a conspicuous smootli ridge 

 reaching from base to apex, edge of the bi-deiitate clypeus violaceous ; 

 prothorax covered with very closely set but very distinct elongate 

 granules, central part of the disk w4th a smooth raised line, being 

 the continuation of the occipital one, and stopping a little short of 

 the l:)ase ; there is no other smooth line or areolet on the sides, and 

 the outer margin is slightly oblique from the middle to the base 

 wdiere it projects in a moderately sharp angle ; elytra finely striate 

 with the intervals conspicuously granulosa and the granules closely 

 set ; pygidium granulose ; metasternum granulosa laterally and also 

 on the sides of the triangular process which is somewdiat blunt 

 at apex, punctulate in the middle, and slightly impressed longi- 

 tudinally between the intermediate coxae. 



Length 10^^-11 mm. ; width 7 mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Barkly West), Southern Ehodesia (Victoria 

 Falls), Ovampoland (Omrramba). 



Gymnopleurus sericatus, Erichs., 

 Wiegm. Arch., 1843, i., p. 232. 



The description of G. modcstus applies also to this species which,, 

 however, is coppery-bronze instead of dark-blue, it is also opaque, 

 but has sometimes a slight sericeous appearance, the shagreened 

 surface is, however, finer and yet at the same time more conspicuous 

 owing to the less subdued sheen, and the basal process of the outer 

 margin is sharper and projects further. 



Length 9^ mm. ; width 6 mm. 



Hab. Damaraland (Otjimbingue), Northern Damaraland ; occurs 

 also in Angola, from whicb place it was originally described. 



Gymnopleurus modestus, Pering., 

 Trans. S. Afric. Philos. Soc, vol. iv., pt. i., p. 94, 1888. 

 Cyaneous-blue, opaque or little shining on both sides, legs of the 

 same colour as the rest of the body ; head shagreened, anterior part 



