1905.] SOUTH-AFRICAN COLEOPTERA. 273 



indefinite way just before the very definite white fascia ; this is 

 narrowly interrujoted at the suture ; the apex is white, but with 

 a fine blackish margin ; the space between the fascia and the 

 apex is very obsoletely punctured, as is the fascia, almost smooth 

 externall3^ The eyes, head, legs, and body generally are clothed 

 with long but fine hairs. 



One example of this insect received long ago from Dr. Baden is 

 in my collection, but had, unfortunately, no precise locality. It 

 is the larger specimen. 



Gyponyx braunsi, sp. n. 



Ulongatus, nigro-piceibs ; ore, antennis palpisque, thoracis 

 margine antico, corpore subtus, pedibiis (geniculis tihiisque 

 exceptis) cUlutioribus, rufo-piceis. Elytris hasi indeterminate, 

 fascia mediana {in marginem latissima jyostice hidentata) 

 maculaque apicali obliqtca testaceis. Thorace elongato, antice 

 tenuiter,ad basin fortius constricto ; elytris ad basin punctato- 

 lineatis, seriebus vix ad medium vectis, externe defcientibits. 

 Long. 13 7nillim. 

 Hah. Willowmore, Cape Colony (Brauns). 



This species differs from any other known to me by its elongate 

 thorax and its comparatively smooth and shining appearance, and 

 also by the clear and distinct coloration and pattern of the elytra. 

 The colour of the body, with the exception of the head and thorax, 

 of the tips of the femora, and bases of the tibiae, is a bright rusty 

 red. The elytra have an oblique broad fascia, much indented, 

 running backwards from below the callus to the suture, of a pitchy 

 colour ; a much broader patch before the apex of a lighter pitchy 

 brown, deeply indented twice on its upper edge, and once on its 

 lower edge, so that it is narrowest in the middle. The lines of 

 punctures scarcely pass the first brown fascia, only four or five 

 punctures being on the yellow median wide patch. The thorax 

 is nearly twice as long as wide, its front margin is rufous, the sides 

 very little widened, not deeply constricted in front, the base 

 coarctate and margined, the punctuation close and fine, the disk a 

 little flat. I have at present only seen the example described, 

 which I have pleasure in naming after its captor. Dr. H. Brauns. 



Graptoclerus Gorh. 



Graptoclerus Gorh. Ann. & Mag. N. Hist. ser. 7, vii. p, 351 

 (1901) ; Schenk. I. c. p. 48, nota. 



Graptoclerus quadripunctatus Gorh. I. c. p. 353. 



Ilab. Grahamstown, Cape Colony (Dunkerbosh, Br. Pe^ither). 

 Described by me from Natal. 1 example. 



Tarsostenus Spinola. 

 Tarsostenus univittatus Rossi. 

 Hab. Willowmore {Brauns). 

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