from the Transvaal. 345 



nearly connected at the sides with another band below the 

 middle, and the suture black. 



Length 4-5 millini. 



Head closely and finely punctured, black, clothed with fine 

 yellowish pubescence, the space between the eyes depressed, 

 the clypeus flavous, the labrum and palpi black ; antennae 

 extending to about the middle of the elytra, black, the lower 

 five joints flavous, the upper joints I'ather robust and thick- 

 ened; thorax more than twice as broad as long, the sides 

 straight, narrowed towards the apex, the posterior angles 

 acutely pointed, the basal margin with some distinct teeth 

 near the angles, the surface nearly impunctate or with some 

 minute punctures only visible under a strong lens, fulvous, 

 the angles and the margins sometimes pale flavous, the sides 

 with a broad semicrescentic black band of irregular shape, 

 consisting in some specimens of two spots joined together ; 

 scutellum short and broad, its apex truncate, black, the middle 

 with a pale flavous spot ; elytra with rather strong rows of 

 punctures, the interstices finely and sparingly punctured, 

 flavous, with a broad transverse black band at the base, deeply 

 concave or sinuate at its posterior edge and connected along 

 the suture with another band below the middle, which extends 

 to the lateral margin and nearly joins the anterior band at the 

 sides, the extreme lateral and apical margin likewise black : 

 underside black, finely pubescent ; legs fulvous ; prosternum 

 broad, truncate at its base and pubescent. 



Hah. Johannesburg. 



From the black-banded species of Africa the present one 

 may be known by the pubescent head and the crescent-shaped 

 thoracic bands, colour of the scutellum, and the nearly con- 

 nected elytral bands ; the elytra in all the specimens (three) 

 have also the sutural margin round the scutellum marked 

 with pale flavous. 



Gryptocephalus deceninotatas, SuflTr. Pretoria, Johannesburg, 

 Pinetown. 

 Many specimens, mostly varieties with a single elyfcral 

 humeral spot, the thorax with four or two spots. 



Gryptocephalus angustofasciatus^ Jac. Pretoria. 

 Gryptocephalus erythromelas, Suffr. Barberton. 

 Gryptocephalus epipleuralis, Jac. Pretoria. 

 Gryptocephalus mandihularis^ Suffr. Pretoria. 

 Acolastus nigroplagiatusj .Jac. Barberton. 



I have also received this species from Estcourt, Natal. 



