1900.] Catalogue of tlic ColeojHera of South Africa. 375 



a'^. Intervals of elytra costate, pubescent. 



Head and prothorax deep fuscous brown ; elytra 

 fuscous brown and with two ferruginous or reddish 

 patches on each side, as often as not united longi- 

 tudinally ; clypeus with a slight prominence ; pro- 

 thorax with scattered punctures ; striae very deeply 

 punctate, intervals tectifonn amcenus. 



Olivaceous brown, densely pubescent ; head simple, 

 gense not projecting at base ; prothorax deeply and 

 closely punctate ; elytra with a somewhat indis- 

 tinct longitudinal band running on each side on the 

 second interval and produced diagonally towards the 

 outer margin in iihe posterior part of the disk where 

 it is bi-sinuate ; intervals sub-costate, strongly punc- 

 tate lanuginosus. 



a^. Intervals of elytra plane, pubescent. 



Brownish red, shining, although densely but very 

 briefly pubescent ; head simple, smooth ; prothorax 

 nearly impunctate except for a slight aciculation on 

 the lateral anterior part ; striae of elytra impunctate ; 

 intervals plane and very densely aciculate cinerascens. 



D\ Clypeus emarginate. 



Brick-red, shining ; clypeus a little excavate at apex ; 

 prothorax punctulate laterally ; intervals of elytra 

 quite plane ; strise very finely punctate ; anterior 

 tibise emarginate inwardly from a little beyond the 

 middle to the apex gracilis. 



Colour fuscous brown on head and prothorax ; elytra 

 lighter brown ; head with a slight median elevation ; 

 punctures on prothorax scattered ; intervals of elytra 

 quite plane ; striae not deeply punctate ; anterior tibise 

 normal lucidulus. 



Colour deeply infuscate or piceous red on head and 

 thorax, the latter very closely punctate ; elytra reddish 

 brown ; strise deeply punctate ; joints of posterior 

 tarsi short except the basal one hrevitarsus. 



Colour piceous red, black on the elytra with the suture 

 and the sides reddish ; prothorax deeply but not 

 closely punctate ; strise deeply punctate ; intervals 

 convex, impunctate ditus. 



Brick-red, shining ; clypeus a little excavate at apex, 

 a frontal bi-sinuate impressed line on the head ; gense 

 triangular ; prothorax punctulate laterally, not in the 

 middle ; elytra very finely striate ; strise nearly im- 

 punctate, intervals plane hcpviatiticus. 



Brick-red, shining ; clypeus slightly excavate at apex, 

 a frontal bi-sinuate impressed line on the head ; genae 



