1907.] Catalogue of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 423 



Length 14-14^ mm. ; width 7| mm. 



Hab. Natal (Durban, Maritzburg, Tugela Eiver, Malvern, Frere); 

 Transvaal (Johannesburg, Pretoria, Lydenburg). 



Gen. GAMETIS, Burm., 

 Handb. d. Entomol., iii., 1842, p. 356. 

 Phonotania, Kraatz. Deuts. Entom. Zeitschr. 1880, p. 154. 



Mentum long, sub-parallel or somewhat oblong, emarginate in 

 front, the palps cavity very elongated ; maxillae long, somewhat 

 slender, lobes simple, upper one with a very long pencil of fulvous 

 hairs ; clypeus attenuate laterally from near the median part to the 

 apex, and somewhat deeply incised there ; prothorax attenuate 

 laterally in the anterior part for about one-third of the length, nearly 

 parallel thence to the base the angles of which are well rounded, 

 deeply arcuate above the scutellum which is narrow but long, and 

 not sharply acuminate at the apex ; elytra plane, non-costate, or 

 very obsoletely so , sternal process projecting, more or less broadly 

 triangular ; anterior tibia? tri-dentate ; inner part of legs pubescent. 



The genus is represented in Eastern and Western Africa. 



Key to the Species. 



A-. Clypeus very sharply acuminate at apex. 



Elytra non-costate, and with a quadrate scutellary patch, a 



sutural band, a median transverse band, and the apex black. . sub-fasciata. 



A 1 . Clypeus less sharply acuminate at apex. 



Elytra weakly costulate, basal part with a long triangular 



black patch, apex black balteata. 



Gametis subfasciata, Swed., 

 Vet. Ak. Nya. Handb., 1787, iii., p. 191. 



cliscoidea, Pabr., Ent. Syst., i., 2, p. 151. 



fiammea, Vig., Zool. Journ., ii., p. 237, pi. 9, fig. 2. 



velutina, Oliv., Ent., i., 6, p. 89, pi. 12, fig. 114. 



Gory and Perch., Monogr., p. 246, pi. 46, fig. 5. 



Black, opaque on the upper side, epimera and elytra orange-red, 

 the latter has a quadrate basal patch continued as a band along the 

 suture, and extending in the median part as a more or less narrow 

 transverse band which does not reach the outer margin, the whole of 

 the apical part is black. Head and clypeus closely punctate ; pro- 



