1904.] AFRICAN PHYTOPHAGOUS COLEOPTERA. 245 



flavous, the disc with two black bands ; elytra finely punctate- 

 striate, an oblique band from the shoulders to the suture and the 

 apex dark brown, margined with black at the sides and apex. 



Length 4 millim. 



Head strongly punctured and sparingly pubescent, with a dark 

 reddish triangular spot ; antennae short, only extending to the 

 base of the thorax, fulvous, the terminal six joints slightly 

 widened ; thorax not very widened at the middle, the sides 

 rounded, the surface very finely punctured, flavous, the anterior 

 middle portion reddish fulvous, the sides with a short black 

 curved band not extending to the anterior margin, these bands 

 separate the flavous portion into three parts, two lateral spots 

 and one medial spot at the base ; scutellum flavous ; elytra with 

 rather fine rows of punctures, the interstices flat, the flavous 

 ground-colour is confined to a transverse band surrounding the 

 scutellum and a large transverse patch near the apex of each 

 elytron, an oblique dark brown band from the shoulder to the 

 middle of the suture and the similarly coloured apex limit the 

 flavous portion, the dark bands are also margined with black, 

 which at the sides forms a short longitudinal stripe, leaving the 

 extreme lateral margin, however, of the flavous ground-colour as 

 far as the middle ; the pygidium and underside are fulvous, the 

 prosternuni is subquadrate, with its posterior margin furnished 

 with two short acute points. 



Hah. Beira, E. Africa (^4. Sheppard). 



A rather curiously marked species of which I received three 

 specimens from Mr. Sheppard ; it is somewhat allied to G. comoedus 

 Suffr., but the shape of the elytral bands and their colour are 

 quite dilferent. 



Cryptocephalus capensis, sp. n. 



Black, with greenish or bluish gloss ; thorax impunctate ; elyti^ 

 moderately strongly punctate-striate, flavous, with two deeply 

 dentate transverse bands, the second including a flavous spot, and 

 the suture at the middle black. 



Length 5 millim. 



Head with some irregular depression and an obsolete central 

 groove, sparingly punctured, blackish blue ; antennae slender, 

 entirely black ; thorax rather short, the sides nearly straight, the 

 surface impunctate, coloured like the head ; scutellum blackish 

 blue, the apex bluntly rounded ; elytra finely punctate-striate 

 near the suture, more strongly punctured at the sides, the inter- 

 stices flat, flavous, with a transverse black band before and another 

 behind the middle, these bands are strongly djsntate and connected 

 at the suture and at the outer portion so as to include a round 

 flavous spot at the middle near the suture ; underside and legs 

 bluish black. 



Hab. Cape of Good Hope (my collection). 



Somewhat similarly marked to C. polyospilus Sufir. and allied 

 species, but from these and fi'om the other banded African forms 



