1897.] PHYTOPHA.GOTTS COLEOPTERA OY AFUTCA. 255 



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Head black, finely rugosely punctured and sparingly pubescent; 

 antennae rather short, entirely black, the third and fourth joint 

 equal, the terminal joints slightly widened : thorax with moderately 

 rounded sides, the posterior angles not much produced, the entire 

 surface finely rugose or wrinkled, making the punctuation very 

 indistinct, black, the anterior margin very narrowly and the sides 

 broadly flavous, the yellow colour at the latter place separated from 

 the black portion by a strongly sinuate margin ; scutellum very 

 broad, its apex pointed, minutely punctured, black; elytra with 

 regular and deep rows of punctures, the interstices very finely 

 transversely wrinkled, flavous, the shoulders with a black spot, 

 the suture ^\ ith a broad black band, which widens strongly at the 

 base, so as to veiy nearly join the shoulder-spot, below the middle 

 the band narrows, but again gets slightly wider near the apex, to 

 which it does not quite extend, the extreme lateral margin from 

 below the base and the apical one are likewise black ; the pygidium, 

 underside, and legs are entirely of that colour. 



Hah. Mashonaland {G. 21 ar shall) ; coll. Brit. Mus. and my own. 



A well-distinguished species, on account of the sculpturing and 

 pattern of its thorax and elytra. 



CeYPTOCEPHALUS NATALBNSIS, u. sp. (Plate XVII. fig. 8.) 



Dark fulvous ; thorax longitudinally strigose, its margins flavous ; 

 elytra deeply and closely punctured, the interstices longitudinally 

 costate and with yellow short stripes. 



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Head with some strong punctures and a central groove at the 

 vertex fulvous ; antennae extending to about the middle of the 

 elytra, black, the lower four joints fulvous, third and fourth joint 

 equal, the fifth more elougate, the following joints slightly shorter; 

 thorax proportionally long, the sides straight, narrowed in front, 

 the entire surface covered with longitudinal strigte, dark fulvous, 

 the margins narrowly flavous, the sides more broadly so and the 

 base with two very narrow flavous spots ; scutellum broadly trun- 

 cate at its apex, flavous, margined with piceous ; elytra slightly 

 narrowed posteriorly, closely impressed with large, deep, and 

 transversely-shaped punctures, the interstices strongly costate, 

 those near the suture of sinuate shape, fulvous ; every alternate 

 costa with two or three bright yellow stripes of various length, 

 those at the apex and at the extreme margins nearly entirely 

 of that colour ; underside and legs entirely fulvous, the latter 

 robust. 



Hab. Natal (my collection). 



Of this species I have now seen two specimens, which I formerly 

 referred to C. araticollis, Chap., from Zanzibar ; with this it 

 entirely agrees in the unusual and interesting sculpturing of the 

 thorax and the elytra : the eyes are likewise closely approached at 

 the top of the head as in Chapuis's species ; but as this author says 

 nothing about the yellow margins of the thorax nor of the similarly- 



