1902.] Catalogue of the Colcoptcra of South Africa. 855 



elongate, scabrose punctures, and clothed with very short upright 

 black hairs with on each side two series of erect bristles, the suture 

 also is bristly ; anterior tibiae tri-dentate ; hind femora long, slender, 

 villose, not thickened or anipliated at apex. 



Length 7 mm. ; width 3|- mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Worcester). 



Gymnoloma suturalis, Burm., 

 Handb. d. Entomol., iv., 1, p. 164. 



Male : Black, with the elytra reddish brown, opaque, outer and 

 basal margins of prothorax with a broad band of sub-flavescent 

 scales ; elytra with a moderately broad band of scales along the 

 suture, and a narrow line on the outer margin ; pygidial part and 

 abdominal segments densely clothed with yellowish-white scales 

 leaving a conspicuously denuded space round the stemmata ; legs 

 reddish ; clypeus a little attenuate laterally, truncate at tip and with 

 the outer angles distinct, prothorax fringed in front and laterally with 

 very long, black, bristly hairs, the median furrow is shallow, but very 

 broad; elytra attenuate laterally towards the apex, sinuate below the 

 humeral part, very finely punctured and extremely briefly pubescent, 

 distinctly bi-costulate on each side and without any sprinkled scales 

 besides those forming the sutural band and the outer marginal line ; 

 anterior tibijE tri-dentate, but with the basal tooth very small; hind 

 femora moderately slender, simple and without a trochanterine spine ; 

 hind tibige narrowed near the knee and slightly dilated from there to 

 the apex, somewhat concave on the upper side, flattened inwardly, 

 and with the two apices angular, but not mucronate, no apical spur 



Length 7 mm. ; width 4 mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Stellenbosch, Malmesbury, Caledon), 



Gymnoloma strigosa, Burm., 



Handb. d. Entomol., iv., 1, p. 163. 



Lacord. Gener., Atlas, pi. xxix., fig. 2. 



Male: Black, with the elytra chestnut-brown, opaque; prothorax 

 with a median and an outer marginal band of white, somewhat dense 

 scales, which form also a partly obliterated one along the base ; 

 scutellum scaly; elytra with a sutural, two discoidal and an outer 

 marginal line of white scales; pygidium and under side densely scaly 

 the former having a denuded median basal patch ; clypeus very slightly 

 attenuate laterally, straight at tip and with the angles distinct ; head 

 and prothorax rugose and clothed with not very short, erect black 



