1892,] of the Goleoptera of South Africa. 25 



yellowish marginated with black, with only three teeth in front ; head 

 strigose, slightly hairy ; prothorax of the usual shape ; elytra hardly 

 punctated, the apical sutural spines very sharp, black with yellow 

 patches spots and Hues arranged as follows on each side : a sutural line 

 reaching from the base to about the middle, a diagonal sinuated patch 

 beginning below the shoulder, reaching from the outer margin to 

 about the centre of the dorsal part, and with a round dot between the 

 suture and the apex of the patch, another and broader sub-apical 

 sinuated patch connected with the suture, but not with the outer 

 margin, three small longitudinal lines between the two patches, and 

 three minute dots between the supra apical patch and the apex ; tarsi 

 not grooved. 



Length, 18 ; width, G'"-™- 



I have made that description from an example in the British 

 Museum, but I neglected to examine the labrum ; Boheman in his 

 description, I.e., says that it is tri-dentate, and his assertion is cor- 

 roborated by Bates. Entomol. Month. Magaz., 1872, p. 287. 



Vicinity of Lake N'Gami, teste Boheman ; Middle Limpopo, teste 

 Bates. 



Gen, OPHRYODERA. Chaud. 



Bull. Mosc. 1860, IV., p. 314. 



Mentum with a short, acute median tooth ; palpi slender, labrum 

 long, very convex, produced in front, and with five teeth at the apex, 

 antennse with the seven ultimate joints compressed, the 5th, 6th, and 

 7th dilated 5 prothorax with the outer sides perpendicular and carinated ; 

 elytra parallel, moderately convex, narrowed diagonally behind ; 

 median and posterior tarsi grooved on the upper part. 



0. RUFOMARGINATA. Bohem. 



Insect. Caffr. 1, 1848, p. 3. 

 PI. 2, fig. 3. 



Bronze, more or less dark, the four basal points of the antennse. 



