1892.] of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 75 



instead of five, are nearly straight instead of being sinuose as in 

 clathrata, the reticulation of the interstice? is different, and the suture 

 is distinctly bi-spinose on each side. Male unknown. 

 Transvaal (no exact locality). 



D. GRANDis. new species. 



Brassy-black, the foveas of the elytra with a golden sheen; head 

 strigose, labrum black with a median, narrow, yellowish band in 

 both sexes ; antennae with the exception of the first four basal joints 

 sub-foliated ; prothorax quadrate, as broad as the head, short, 

 deeply impressed in the anterior and posterior parts, plicated, with 

 the folds sinuated, and with the disk produced in two long 

 protuberances ; elytra of the male nearly parallel, depressed, those of 

 the female oblong, ampliated in the middle and gradually narrowed 

 behind, the sutural apical spines longer in the male than in the 

 female, each el^/tron with five slightly raised lines reaching from the 

 base to two-thirds of the length, the intervals between the lines very 

 broadly foveated, the fovege reticulated, and the posterior part very 

 rugose ; on each side of the posterior part, and reaching about from 

 the apex to the dorsal costae, is a long, broad, parenthesis-like white 

 band. 



Length, 19-24; width, 6-8'"-"" 



Allied to D. clathrata, but easily distinguished owing to the sub- 

 foliated antennae, and the different shape of the apical markings of 

 the elytra ; the elytra of the female are also more gradually 

 ampliated from the base to the middle, the alveolas are much 

 broader and deeper, and the outer line, a very narrow one, runs 

 quite close to the fourth, instead of being broadly separated as in D. 

 clathrata. 



I have also received two smaller examples of this species from 

 Barberton (Transvaal), in which the apical white patch is not 

 discernible; I believe these examples to be immature. 



Middle Limpopo (Fort Tuli), Transvaal (Barberton). 



