162 Descriptive Catalogue [1896. 



Gen. GALEEITA, Fabric, 

 Syst. Eleuth., i., 1801, p. 214. 



Mentum broad, deeply incised Avith a short, broad, sub-bifid 

 median tooth ; hgula rhomboid, with a long seta on each side of the 

 apex ; paraglossae membranaceous, very slender, nearly as long as 

 the ligula and detached from it ; palpi moderately long, the last joint 

 of both maxillary and labial securiform and truncated obliquely ; 

 mandibles short ; labrum transverse, not incised ; antennae long, 

 moderately slender, the first joint broader and nearly as long as the 

 second and third ; head with a distinct neck ; prothorax more or less 

 narrowed in front and behind, truncated at the base, with the outer 

 angles acute ; elytra oblong, truncated a little obliquely behind, 

 depressed ; legs long ; tarsi triangular, densely hairy underneath, the 

 fourth one incised ; male with the anterior tarsi broader inwardly. 



Hah. The genus is represented in Africa (Senegambia, Kordofan, 

 Sierra Leone, Old Calabar, Ashanti, Quango Eio, Uzangara, Kili- 

 manjaro and the Zanzibar mainland), India, North and South 

 America, and Haiti. 



Galerita leptodeea, Chaud., 



Plate VII., fig. 4. 

 Bull. Mosc, 1861, part ii., p. 559. 



Black, moderately shining ; head deeply bi-impressed in the 

 anterior part, roughly scrobiculated behind ; neck smooth ; antennae 

 with the five basal joints black and hirtose, the others somewhat 

 rufescent and pubescent ; prothorax narrow, long, with the apical 

 angles rounded, a little ampliated at about the median part, 

 narrowed behind, with the outer margins acute, recurved, very 

 roughly shagreened and with very short not thickly set hairs, longer 

 and rufescent in the posterior margin ; elytra subparallel, a little 

 broader at the apex than at the base, plane, costate, with the costae 

 very sharp and the intervals finely shagreened, and with three or 

 sometimes four series of punctures from which spring short greyish- 

 black hairs ; under side punctulated and with short greyish hairs ; 

 legs pilose ; claws reddish. Length 21 mm. ; width 7 mm. 



Hah. Mozambique . (-Eikatla), Zambezia (Manicaland) ; also 

 recorded from Guinea and Bagamoyo, that is to say from the 

 "West and East Coast of Africa. 



There can be little doubt about the identity of G. leptodeitra, 

 Chaud., with G. angicstipennis, Gerst. 



Gen. ZUPHIUM, Latreille, 

 Gen. Crust., i., 1806, p. 198. 

 Mentum broad, with a short, median bifid tooth ; ligula square, 



