Coleoptera from South Africa. 353 
Graptoclerus equestris. 
“ Clerus”’ equestris, Boheman, Ins. Caffr. i. fase. ii. p. 498. 
Hiab. Mashonaland, Salisbury (Marshall), 
Two specimens agree with the description of this insect. [ 
had not seen it before; with the following species and several 
others it will require a new genus for its reception. 
They were found at Salisbury in September 1898 “on 
Mosasa.”’ 
Although this is a very much smoother insect than the one 
I describe as G. signatus, it will be properly placed in the 
same genus. ‘T'he general characters of the antenna, tarsi, 
and claws, the form of the thorax and its smooth interspaces, 
and the punctuation of the elytra without series are the same. 
Graptoclerus quadripunctatus, sp. n. 
Ochraceus, crebre, confluenter, elytris distinctius punctatis, his 
maculis duabus in singulis, nec suturam nec marginem attin- 
gentibus, mgris. 
Long. 6 millim. 
Hab. Natal, Malvern, Umkomaas River (Marshall). 
This insect so much resembles Opilo (Clerus) nodicollis, 
Bohem., that it might readily be confounded with it. The 
form of the thorax, however, is quite different. The head 
and thorax are closely and rugosely though not very coarsely 
granulate-punctate, and hence appear dull. The thorax is 
broader than long, much rounded behind, and margined at its 
base; behind the anterior constriction there is a smooth, 
slightly elevated ridge, interrupted in the middle, and other 
smooth interspaces further back, especially in the middle, one 
before the base forms a sort of imperfect carina, The elytra 
are thickly and confluently and more coarsely punctured, 
There is a black transverse spot before the middle, and another 
rounder and larger one about one quarter before the apex. 
The antenne are thin, as in G. stgnatus, their third to 
eighth joints elongate-fusiform, gradually shortening; the 
ninth to eleventh form a lax elongate club, of which the ninth 
joint is elongate, the tenth is obconic, not much longer than 
wide, the apical joint is ovate, acuminate, and compressed 
at the tip. ‘The maxillary palpi have the apical joint trans- 
versely cup-shaped and obliquely articulated. 
‘Two specimens, and one received trom M. Thery without 
special locality. 
