164 Descriptive Catalogue [1896. 



posterior angles very acute and projecting ; elytra elongated, plane, 

 very slightly striated, briefly pubescent, black, with a narrow 

 marginal red band, broader behind, and dilated triangularly at the 

 apical part of the suture, also a discoidal patch of the same colour 

 on each side a little below the base, and reaching from the third 

 interval to almost the outer marginal band. Length 9 mm. ; width 

 3^ mm. 



Closely allied to Z. Boheinani, but the red marginal band is wider, 

 and broadens in the shape of a triangle near the apex of the suture. 



Hah. Interior of Caffraria. 



ZuPHiUM BKUNNEUM, Bohem., 

 Insect. Caffr., i., p. 33. 



Totally testaceous red, with the exception of the head, which is 

 black or very dark brown ; prothorax very closely but not deeply 

 punctured, subcordiform, hardly grooved in the centre and briefly 

 pubescent ; elytra subparallel, slightly striated and finely shagreened. 

 Length 7|- mm. ; width 3^ mm. 



Hah. Interior of Caffraria. 



ZUPHIUM USTUM, Klug, 



Jahrb., 1834, p. 67. 



Yellowish red ; head and prothorax slightly punctulated, very 

 briefly pubescent ; elytra parallel, plane, with well-defined striae and 

 intervals, slightly shagreened and briefly pubescent, with three long 

 setae at the humeral angle, two on the posterior part of the lateral 

 margin and two or three in the posterior one, yellowish red, with a 

 sutural narrow band a little dilated at the base, and coalescing at 

 about the median part of the length, with a very broad, transverse 

 fascia extending from one outer margin to the other, but not reaching 

 the apical margin, and obliquely incised on each side of the suture. 

 Length 7^ mm. ; width 3 mm. 



Hah. Interior of Caffraria. 



Teibe HELLUONIDBS. 



Ligula thick, broad, horny ; paraglossae * very short or very long, 

 slender, detached from the ligula ; labrum very long, covering the 



* Lacordaire states that in the Helluonides there is no paraglossae. In the 

 genera Meladroma and Tricenogenius the paraglossae exist, and their shape is 

 very singular. In Macrocheilus dorsalis the paraglossae are also found, hut they 

 are almost transparent and very minute. I have not been able to dissect the 

 unique example of M. biplagiakts, which I have seen, as it belongs to the Stock- 

 holm Museum. In Planetes the paraglossae are considerably longer than the 

 ligula. 



