1907.] Catalogue of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 415 



dorsal one, the intervals are not striate ; abdomen glabrous ; pectus 

 briefly pubescent. 



Length 12 mm. ; width 6 mm. 



Hab. Transvaal (Pretoria) ; Natal. 



Gen. T^NIESTHES, Kraatz, 

 Entom. Monatsb., ii., 1880, p. 27. 



Mentum of Isandula, maxillae robust, inner lobe with a small, 

 slightly hooked inner tooth, upper lobe robust, and moderately 

 hooked, vertical inwardly, with the two angles sharp ; body short, 

 somewhat massive ; the shape of the head and of the clypeus are 

 similar in both sexes, clypeus parallel, broadly emarginate at apex 

 with the outer angles well rounded, and with a longitudinal, median, 

 rounded keel beginning at a short distance from the cephalic base 

 and ending at about the median part of the clypeus in a briefly 

 projecting horizontal tooth ; antennal club not quite as long as the 

 pedicel in the $ ; prothorax somewhat short, sub-trapezoidal, as 

 much arcuate on each side of the base as above the scutellum which 

 is as broad as long, but sharply acuminate and not depressed in the 

 centre ; elytra somewhat short, not very much attenuated behind ; 

 sternal process horizontal, slender towards the apex and strongly 

 curving upwards there in the manner of Isandula, &c. ; legs some- 

 what short, anterior tibiae dentate at apex in the $ , bi-dentate in 

 the $ , but with the upper tooth very blunt, inner side of inter- 

 mediate and posterior tibiae moderately densely pubescent, the upper 

 ridge of the posterior one dentate in either sex. 



This description is made from examples of the South African 

 representative, but the genus was founded by Kraatz for Heteror- 

 rhina spccidaris, Gerst., from the Zanzibar mainland, in which the 

 clypeus is simple in the ? , the only sex I know. 



T^NIESTHES PICTURATA, Har., 



Mitt. Munch. Ent. Ver., ii., 1878, p. 103. 



bradsliatoi, Poll. Deutsch. Entomol. Zeitschr., 1886, p. 300. 



Light brick-red with the elytra more flavescent ; head fuscous 

 with the central part of the clypeus rufescent ; prothorax with three 

 dorsal black longitudinal bands ; scutellum narrowly fuscous across 

 the base ; elytra with a broad reddish-brown sutural band which is 

 continued from the top of the hind declivity as a narrow line, the 

 anterior and posterior callus bear each a quadrate patch of the 

 same colour, but that of the hind callus is usually elongated, con 



