Cohoptera from South Africa. 30;^ 



strif,'i8(hmlnis Itasalilms, uiialmiiu'rali, una jiixtiim«'<liunn,fas(;ii.s(juo 

 frihus vnMr uiidulatis, tc'iiuilmrt, iiec luargiiicm ncc sutiiram 

 uttiii};oiitil)U8, prima hunu'ium siiliciripcnfo, securula jtoiie medium, 

 torlia suhapicali rufis, liis ruro-itulicsccutihus ; antermaruin 

 articulis tort load octavum fusiformihus, sul)ii'qualibus,terti')|)arum 

 elonj^ato, clava elougata, articulis duobus ultimis subquadratis. 

 Long. 11-lii uiillim. 



Ilah. Mashonaland, Salisbury {}[<irsh<ill) . 



The general form of this insect is quite that of the first 

 section of the genus Episcapha, and the thin antennio with 

 long joints in the funiculus, which also are pubescent, and an 

 elonj:;ate club, of which the basal joint is obconic and the two 

 following not wider than long, as well as the structure of the 

 body beneath, quite confirm the opinion that it should be 

 placed in Episcapha or Episcaphula. But it differs from all 

 known African Episcapliuhe by the pattern, which on the 

 elytra is almost exactly that of Triplatoma Gestroi, and also 

 by not having the yellow abdomen, and by its short but 

 rather thick j)ubescence. 



'I'he head is rather small, coarsely punctured, the eyes not 

 much prominent, the canthus scarcely thickened nor con- 

 spicuous, their facets granular and rather coarse ; the antennaj 

 aie as long as the head and thorax taken together, with the 

 mouth, palpi, &c. wholly black. Thorax wider at the base 

 than in front, opaque, confiuently punctured, the sides 

 narrow from the base, but are more suddenly narrowel 

 at one third from the front angles, so as to seem almost 

 angulated at that point ; their surface is on the whole even, 

 but tiicre is a wide depression on each side of the middle 

 before the base; the basal margin is gently sinuate, the 

 front almost truncate, with, however, slightly projecting 

 acute angles ; the base and front are not margined and the 

 sides very finely so. The seutellum is triangular and trans- 

 verse, finely punctured. The elytra are much more finely 

 but closely and uniformly punctured, without scries; very 

 obsoletely subsulcate towards the extremities. 



The general but superficial resemblance to some species of 

 Triplatoma is heightened by the two short hamate streaks on 

 the front of the thorax, and the markings of the elytra are so 

 similar to those of T. Gestroi as at once to suggest that insect 

 to one acquainted with Eastern Erotylida;. It is to be noticed, 

 however, that while the j)ubescence on the elytra generally is 

 black, that on the red markings is of the same colour with 

 them. The punctuation of the thorax beneath is very coarse, 

 especially at the sides ; the prosternal process is broad and 

 emarginate at its tip, it is not compressed nor mucronate in 



