2G0 MK. M. j.vcoBY OX THE [Feb. 2, 



surface only perceptibly punctured when seen under a strong lens, 

 the entire disc almost occupied by two broad rufous bands, which 

 sometimes unite or are only di\ided by a very narrow streak of the 

 ground-colour, the anterior margin and the sides more broadly 

 bright yellow, the base with two small black spots, all the extreme 

 margins likewise black ; scutelliim slightly longer than broad, 

 black ; elytra slightly narrowed posteriorly, the space surrounding 

 the scutellum rather raised, the punctures fine, nearly obliterated 

 at the base, the interstices flat, slightly wrinkled here and there, 

 flavous, the base with a transverse black band, which is gradually 

 narrowed towards the suture, but leaves the extreme lateral margin 

 of the ground-colour, another narrower black band is placed near 

 the apex, with its upper and lower margins irregularly indented ; 

 underside, legs, and pj^gidium fulvous, finely pubescent. 



Hah. Natal, Estcourt (6?. Marshall). 



This pretty species seems very nearly ro resemble in coloration 

 0. decoratus, B-eiche, from Abyssinia, but the position of the elytral 

 bands and that of the spots of the thorax is different : in the latter 

 respect I am not acquainted with any other species from Africa 

 being similarly marked with three shades of colour, except in the 

 case of C. decoraUis ; but in that species the black spots of the 

 thorax are placed at the middle and not at the base, the antennae 

 are entirely fulvous, and the elytral bauds broader. C. bifasciatus, 

 Fabr., has an entirely fulvous thorax, with two central black spots 

 and differently shaped elytral bands. There are four specimens 

 before me. 



CeYPTOCEPHALTJS ATEOCIIfCTtTS, n. sp. 



Head, antenn?e, and the breast black ; thorax fulvous with pale 

 margins and two broad black bands, finely punctured ; elytra 

 moderately deeply punctured, flavous, with a sutural and two lateral 

 black longitudinal bands abbreviated posteriorly. 



Length 2 lines. 



Head black, rather closely punctured ; the clypeus and a narrow 

 stripe in front of the eyes greyish or yellowish white ; antennae 

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

 lower four or five joints more or less fulvous at the base, third and 

 fourth joint nearly equal, the following more elongate, terminal 

 joints slightly thickened ; thorax twice as broad as long, narrowed 

 in front, the lateral margins nearly straight, the basal margin with 

 some small teeth at the angles, the surface very finely and rather 

 closely punctured, reddish fulvous, the margins flavous, the sides 

 more broadly so, extreme basal margin black, the disc with two 

 broad oblique black bands, not extending to the anterior margin 

 and sometimes reduced to two small spots only ; scutelhmi nearly 

 subquadrate, black with a fulvous spot ; elytra modei-ately strongly 

 punctate-striate, the punctures at the sides larger and more closely 

 placed, the surface bright yellow, with three black longitudinal 

 bands, not extending to the apex, the sutural one narrowed at the 

 base but widened into a slightly triangular shape at the apex and 



