61G Transactions South African Philosoi^hical Society, [vol. xii. 



Pharaonus subvittatus, Burm., 

 Handb. d. Entomol., iv., i., 1844, p. 307. 



Head and prothorax bronze-green, moderately shining, under side 

 and legs metallic black, antennae black; scutellum bottle-green, elytra 

 pale testaceous with the suture and outer margin narrowly edged 

 with fuscous bronze, and having in the posterior part either a very 

 bx'oad bronze black band reaching to the apex and emitting two or 

 three longitudinal bands reaching to about the median part, or 

 having only these three bands and no transverse patch ; the upper 

 side is glabrous, but the upper half of the pygidium is clothed with 

 dense appressed greyish white hairs, and the abdominal segments 

 and also the pectus are sparingly pubescent ; clypeus a little broader 

 than long, obtuse in front and with the angles very broadly rounded 

 and the margins strongly reflexed, it is darker than the head and very 

 closely shagreened like the latter, but the granules are smaller 

 still ; prothorax somewhat convex and not marginate along the base ; 

 covered with deep, round punctures very closely set; scutellum as 

 wide as long, broadly ogival, rounded at the tip, and deeply and 

 closely punctured ; elytra as broad as long, distinctly sinuate laterally 

 at about one-fourth of the length, broader from there and only very 

 slightly ampliate in the median part, plane with the humeral callus 

 only conspicuous, not very deeply punctato-striate on the dorsal 

 part, but more so on the sides, and with the intervals plane on the 

 dorsal part, but somewhat costulate laterally ; legs somewhat deeply 

 punctured outwardly, femora sparingly pubescent ; tarsi piceous. 



The shape and size of the posterior black ti'ansverse patch on the 

 elytra varies in almost every example which I have seen ; it even 

 disappears altogether, leaving only a faint trace of two longitudinal 

 slightly infuscate lines. 



Length 7-7^ mm. ; width ^h nmi. 



Hah. Natal (Estcourt, Frere), Southern Rhodesia (Salisl)ury), 

 Cape Colony (Graham's Town). 



Gen. GNATHOLABIS, Ericks., 



Naturgesch. Ins. Deutsch. iii., 1847, p. 615. 



Kraatz, Deutsch. Entomol. Zeitschr., 1892, p. 298. 



Mentum quadrangular from the base to about the median part, 

 incised laterally there and slightly narrower thence to the apex, 

 which is very deeply scooped in the shape of a crescent, and edged 

 with stiff bristles ; the palpi are like those of PopiUia, but the apical 



