Coleoptera from South Africa. 363 
strigis duabus basalibus, una humerali, una juxta medium, fasciisque 
tribus valde undulatis, tenuibus, nec marginem nec suturam 
attingentibus, prima humerum subcingente, secunda pone medium, 
tertia subapicali rufis, his rufo-pubescentibus; antennarum 
articulis tertioad octavum fusiformibus, subsequalibus, tertio parum 
elongato, clava elongata, articulis duobus ultimis subquadratis. 
Long. 11-13 millim. 
Hab. Mashonaland, Salisbury (Marshall). 
The general form of this insect is quite that of the first 
section of the genus Episcapha, and the thin antenne with 
long joints in the funiculus, which also are pubescent, and an 
elongate 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 Hpiscapha or Episcaphula. But it differs from all 
known African Episcaphule by the pattern, which on the 
elytra is almost exactly that of Zriplatoma Gestrot, and also 
by not having the yellow abdomen, and by its short but 
rather thick pubescence. 
The head 1s rather small, coarsely punctured, the eyes not 
much prominent, the canthus scarcely thickened nor con- 
spicuous, their facets granular and rather coarse ; the antenne 
are 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, confluently punctured, the sides 
narrow from the base, but are more suddenly narrowed 
at one third from the front angles, so as to seem almost 
angulated at that point; their surface is on the whole even, 
but there 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 scutellum is triangular and trans- 
verse, finely punctured. The elytra are much more finely 
but closely and uniformly punctured, without series; 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 7’. Gestrot as at once to suggest that insect 
to one acquainted with Eastern Krotylide. It is to be noticed, 
however, that while the pubescence 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 
