686 Transactions South African Philosophical Society, [vol. xiii. 



parts of the elytra being stained with fulvous. The front of the 

 head of the $ is bright fulvous, the extreme tip of the lateral horns 

 black. On the under side the <? is of a splendid golden green, the 

 femora with a dorsal stripe of bright red ; the tibia3 green above, 

 black beneath, as well as the tarsi ; under side of the V concolorous. 



Male : Head with three horns, the median one, which is fulvous 

 in the middle, is little longer than the head, and emits before the 

 median part two sub-parallel rami serrulate laterally and i*ecurved 

 at tip. 



Female : Clypeus simple, nearly straight in front and fulvous. 



Length (horn excl.) 32-36 mm. 



This species, which inhabits the West Coast, is said by Boheman 

 to have been captured in Damaraland (River Nolagi). 



Gen. SCYTHROPESTHES, Kraatz, Cat. ii., p. 401. 



SCYTHKOPESTHES TRICOLOR, Jans., 



Cistul. Entomol, hi., 1884, p. 106. 



" Black, shining, elytra pitchy red, darker at the sides, the apex 

 black, sides of the thorax, a broad transverse band on the elytra 

 behind the middle narrowed and interrupted at the suture, a central 

 spot on the pygidium, and the exposed portions of the meta-coxie, 

 yellow. Head rather sparsely punctured ; clypeus slightly rounded 

 at the sides, the margins elevated and slightly emarginate at the 

 apex. Thorax convex, obtusely angulated at the sides, posterior 

 angles rounded, the base slightly emarginate before the scutellum, 

 sides sparsely punctured, with a large shallow fovea close to the 

 margin, and a deep transverse impression on each side in front. 

 Scutellum elongate, impunctate, the sides impressed. Elytra 

 depressed, rounded at the apex and slightly produced at the sutural 

 angles, sparsely and irregularly punctured, the apex finely strigose. 

 Pygidium irregularly strigose at the base and sides, the centre 

 almost smooth. Beneath with the thoracic segments ami coxa; 

 coarsely strigose and sparsely pubescent, the outer margin of the 

 meta-coxaa swollen and glabrous ; mesosternal process short, nar- 

 rowed but obtuse at its apex ; abdomen with coarse confluent punc- 

 tures at the sides, and a slight longitudinal central impression ; legs 

 coarsely punctured and sparsely pubescent, anterior tibiaa with one 

 distinct lateral tooth and the apex acute, intermediate and posterior 

 tibiae with one acute tooth in the middle, and a fringe of long black 

 hairs on the inner side. 



Length 20 mm. 



Hab. ? South Africa. 



