1904. ] Catalogue of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 29 
PHILOSERICA vITTATA, Blanch., 
Catal. Coll. Mus., 1850, p. 76. 
P. pauper, Wall., Entom. Tidsk., 1881, p. 19. 
Black, with the head and prothorax sub-opaque, and yet very 
faintly iridescent; scutellum black; elytra strongly iridescent, pale 
testaceous, with the suture, the outer margin, and three stripes on 
each side black; pedicel of antenneze reddish, club black; the 
colour of the elytra varies much, the black stripes and outer 
margins disappear occasionally, or the black tinge has invaded the 
whole surface which is then very iridescent; clypeus_ slightly 
bi-sinuate in front, and with the median part sub-aculeate, deeply 
and closely punctate, the punctures bearing an upright hair, suture 
arcuate, very plain, genx projecting, strongly developed, head 
moderately deeply punctulate in the anterior part only, hairless; 
prothorax not much convex, faintly punctulate but with each punc- 
ture bearing an upright sub-fulvous hair, and with the anterior 
margin as densely hairy as the lateral ones, the hairs on the disk are, 
however, often abraded; scutellum punctulate ; elytra moderately 
elongated, deeply punctato-striate with the intervals somewhat 
convex and punctulate, each alternate stria has a row of stiff, 
upright bristles, and the suture is also bristly; the hairs on the 
abdominal segments are long, the mesosternum is more hairy than 
usual, and the coxe do not cover the fourth abdominal segment. 
The melanic, or concolorous varieties are all from the Transvaal, 
but I have seen also similar examples from Sebakwe. 
Length 64-74 mm.; width 4-44 mm. 
Hab. Transvaal (Lydenburg, Rustenburg, Johannesburg, Pre- 
toria) ; Southern Rhodesia (Sebakwe, Umtali, Enkeldoorn, Salisbury, 
Buluwayo). 
GRYPHONYCHA, n. gen. 
Mentum somewhat short, nearly as broad as long, deeply 
emarginate in front in the usual manner, but having the depressed 
anterior part of the inner face divided in two by a median, longi- 
tudinal ridge; the other features as in Neoserica, but the antenne 
are 9- instead of 10-jointed, and the long club of the male is 
nearly but not quite as long as the pedicel; the anterior tibiae are 
tri-dentate outwardly, but the basal tooth is only angular and projects 
very little ; the anterior tarsi are somewhat short in both sexes, and 
in the male the claws are doubled under the apical joint of the 
anterior tarsi and of nearly the same length, the upper tooth is 
