1896.] of the Coleoptera of South Africa. • 157 



Drypta distincta., Eossi, 



Mant., i., p. 83. 

 D. plagiata, Klug, Jahrb., i., p. 52, 1834. 

 D. africana, Bohem., Insect. Caffr., i., p. 28, 1848. 



Head, mandibles, palpi, and prothorax yellowish red; antennae 

 flavescent, with the apical part of the first and third joints black ; 

 head and prothorax briefly pubescent, closely punctured, the latter 

 ampliated in the middle, constricted behind, and with a median, 

 narrow, longitudinal groove in the centre, and often a depression in 

 the anterior part of the disk ; elytra twice as broad as the prothorax 

 at the base, amphated behind from about the middle, very shghtly 

 convex, deeply punctato-striate, with the intervals convex and finely 

 punctulated, briefly pubescent, pale yellowish red, with a sutural 

 dark green band somewhat dilated at the base, narrowed at about 

 the median part, and broadening behind in a triangular patch, also a 

 lateral supra-marginal narrow band of the same colour, broadening 

 a little past the middle and reaching as often as not the posterior 

 angle ; pectus and abdomen dark green ; legs pale yellowish red. 

 Length 8^-9 mm. ; width 3J-3^ mm. 



Hab. This species has a very wide range, being recorded from 

 Senegal, Abyssinia, Morocco, Spain, and Sicily. In South Africa it 

 has been captured in the Cape Colony (Constantia), Natal (Frere) 

 Transvaal (Pretoria), and Mozambique (Eikatla). 



Drypta sobrina. 



Head, mandibles, palpi, and prothorax yellowish red ; antennae 

 rufescent, with the apical part of the first and third joints infuscated ; 

 head and prothorax briefly pubescent, closely punctured, the latter a 

 little ampliated in the middle, constricted behind, and with a 

 median, narrow, longitudinal groove in the centre ; elytra twice as 

 broad as the prothorax at the base, ampliated behind from about 

 the middle, very slightly convex, deeply punctato-striate, with the 

 intervals convex and finely punctulated, briefly pubescent, dark 

 green, with a narrow, pale red, supra-marginal band, and a diagonal 

 bajnd of the same colour running ab a little distance from the apical 

 margin, uniting with the supra-marginal lateral band at the suture 

 but not in the lateral margin ; metasternum and abdomen dark 

 green, pubescent ; legs pale red ; tibiae and basal joints of tarsi black. 

 Length 10 mm. ; width 4 mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Cape Town). 



This species forms a link between distincta and nigripennis ; while 

 nearer in colouring to the latter, it still retains trace of the pale 

 yellowish colour of the former, overrun by the spreading on each 

 side of the sutural and lateral green margin. 



