from South and West Africa. 73 



confluenter punctatis, punctis in seriebus vix cougestis ; anteunis 

 breTibus, articulis quatuor basalibus rufis (supra nigro-notatis), 

 clava valida, articulo apicali lato, apice intus aciiininato : pedibus 

 nigris, ffmoribus tibiitque caerulescentibus, unguibus rufis, simpli- 

 cibus. 

 Long. 10-11 millirn. 



Hab. Natal, Tugela River, Weenen [Marshall^. 



Elongate, parallel ; head and thorax dark steel-blue, 

 thickly rugoselj punctate, the latter half as long again as 

 wide, the front margin straight, the base rounded ; there is no 

 constriction, but the disk is depressed a little behind the 

 front and there is a somewhat carinate bright line down the 

 middle. Elytra scarcely wider than the thorax ; they have 

 three orange bands narrowly interrupted at the suture, the 

 first and second united along the margin : the first occupies 

 the base and shoulder, but is rounded off on each side of the 

 sculellum ; the second is undulate, concave towards the base ; 

 the third orange band is subajncal, cut out in front at the 

 suture. The abdomen and body beneath are blue. 



The pattern of the elytra of this insect is almost identical 

 with that of the North-American T. apivorus. It is really 

 allied to Ghrus lepidus, Walker, a species described from 

 examples taken by J. K. Lord in " Egypt," and figured by 

 C. \\ aterhouse in 'Aid to the Identification of Insects,' 

 t, Ixxvi., also noticed by him in the index to vol, i. of 

 tiie same publication, p. 12, and of the variety examples 

 of which, without a central orange band, are in ray collec- 

 tion from "Tajura, Straits of Bab-el- Mendeb." Both this 

 insect and T. tugelanus are aberrant, if, indeed, they can 

 be referred to Trichodes. The cultriform apical joint of 

 the antennae, though short, almost square, yet acuminate 

 on its inner side, agrees with that genus better than with 

 Fhilocalus. Two Trichodes only have yet been recorded from 

 South Africa, viz. T. aulicus, Klug, Spin., and T. Dregei, 

 Chevr. Rev. et Mag. Zool. 1874, p. 50, unless, as M. Chev- 

 rolat seems to think (cf. note, p. 16, /. c.) T. aulicus, KUig, 

 is a different species from T. aulicus, Spin. t. xxxi. fig. 4, in 

 which case there are three. These Cape Colony " Trichodes " 

 are very scarce; I possess two examples only, which appear 

 to be distinct species, and neither of them agrees with the 

 figure in Spinola, the base of the elytra having only a 

 narrow line of red in one and being wholly dark green in the 

 other, besides other differences. Insects labelled " Cap,"^, h, 

 &c., from old collections, must be received with reserve as 

 to the locality, as any South-African locality was often so 

 designated. 



