1896.] of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 145 



suture ; under side piceous ; legs yellowish red.'^' Length 6 mm. ; 

 width 2 mm. 



Hah. Mozambique (Tette, teste Klug), Damaraland. 



Lasioceea gracilis, Bohem., 

 Insect. Caffr., i., p. 26. 



Head and prothorax greenish bronze, the former brassy in the 

 centre ; antennae and palpi very pale yellow, almost transparent ; 

 prothorax oblongo-ovate, with a hardly noticeable median longi- 

 tudinal ridge, and closely and deeply punctured ; elytra rounded at 

 the shoulders, with the outer sides straight, truncated obliquely 

 behind, with the outer angle acute, depressed, deeply and closely 

 punctato-striate with the intervals narroAV, sub-convex, transversely 

 rugose, bronze, moderately shining, and having on each side, before 

 the median part and nearer to the outer margin, an elongated longi- 

 tudinal pale-yellow patch slightly notched in the middle on both 

 sides, and another post-median, moderately large, transverse, and 

 uneven one of the same colour ; legs almost transparent, with the 

 knees and the apical part of the joints of the tarsi slightly infuscated. 

 Length 5 mm. ; width 2 mm. 



Hah. Interior of Caffraria (Boheman). 



Lasioceea egeegia, 

 Plate X., fig. 9. 



Head and prothorax greenish bronze, with a brassy tinge in the 

 middle, both roughly shagreened ; antennae and palpi almost trans- 

 parent ; prothorax almost fusiform ; elytra with the shoulders 

 rounded and the outer sides parallel, truncated obliquely behind, 

 with the posterior angle produced in a very short spine, a little 

 convex, very broadly and deeply punctato-striate, with the intervals 

 very narrow and convex, bronze, with a slight greenish tinge, and 

 four round, rather indistinct, more or less rounded, yellowish patches, 

 a sub-basal median and post-median one in a longitudinal line, and 

 a nearly juxta-sutural round dot close to the post-median patch but 

 a little lower down ; legs very pale yellow, almost transparent, with 

 the knees and the tarsi slightly infuscated. Length 6 mm. ; width 

 If mm. 



Hah. Zambezia (Salisbury). 



Tkibe EGIDES. 



Body pedunculate ; head constricted behind in a very slender and 

 long neck ; two long supra-orbital setae ; antennae long, subfiliform, 



* These patches do occasionally coalesce so as to form three lateral patches, as 

 figured in Peters, pi. 9, fig. 3. 



