Longicornia of South Africa, &c. 275 
fined to the sides, not advancing and almost approximating in front. 
Phryneta cinereola, White, is another species having also small lateral 
eyes, but with short narrow tarsi—that is, so far as the three basal 
joints are concerned, the claw-joint being in proportion unusually 
large*. Itis also a weaker form, although, such is the instability 
of the characters of the Longicornia, that it is excelled in this respect 
by Phryneta ceca, Chevr., and another species described below (P. 
suturalis), which do not seem to offer any valid generic characters 
beyond this to warrant their separation. 
Chreostes ephippiatus. 
C. obscure fuscus, fulvo variegatus ; elytris mediis plaga magna cruciformi, 
et ad latera maculis magnis duabus, fulvis ; corpore infra omnino fulvo. 
Hab. Natal. 
Covered with a short, close, dull brown pubescence, varied with 
greyish yellow; head impunctate, entirely covered, as well as the 
whole under surface and legs, with a greyish-yellow pubescence; eyes 
black; mandibles and lip dark brown; prothorax dark brown in the 
centre, yellowish at the sides, two tubercles on the disk anteriorly, and 
between them an elevated line terminating behind in two smaller 
tubercles; the lateral spines very stout and obtuse ; scutellum rounded 
at the sides; elytra irregularly punctured, the punctures everywhere 
yellowish, a large X-shaped yellowish patch in the middle, and on 
each side posteriorly two irregular patches of the same colour; rest of 
the elytra brown, of varying shades ; antennz shorter than the body, 
finely pubescent, yellowish. Length 15 lines. 
Haeusata. 
Caput antice subtransversum, convexum, supra episternum transverse 
sulcatum, tuberibus antenniferis divergentibus. Ocudi magni, fronte 
subapproximati. Antenne corpore longiores, basi distantes, scapo 
apicem versus incrassato, cicatricoso, articulo tertio longiore, ceteris 
(ultimo excepto) brevioribus, gradatim decrescentibus. Prothorax trans- 
+ versus, postice sulcatus, lateraliter spinosus. E/ytra oblonga, parallela, 
humeris subprominentibus. Pedes mediocres; femora modice incras- 
sata; tarsi antici breves, postici longiores. Prosternum muticum ; 
mesosternum dentatum. 
This genus differs in no respect essentially from Anoplosthaeta, ex- 
cept in the transverse sulcation above the epistome and its toothed 
prosternum. It has, however, somewhat larger eyes, more oblong 
elytra, and longer posterior tarsi; but the beautiful coloration of the 
latter gives it quite a different appearance. The specimen described 
below was taken at Sierra Leone by the late Mr. James Foxcroft (to 
* In my collection, I have called this form Praomera. 
