1896.] of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 171 



less confluent, deep punctures ; under side black, with a rusty tinge ; 

 tarsi dark brown. Length 14 mm. ; width 5 mm. 



Hah. Damaraland (Svakop) ; northern part of Great Namaqua- 

 land. 



Gen. PLANETES, McLeay, 

 Annul. Javan., p. 28. 



Ligula moderately long, horny, gradually narrowed from the base 

 to the apex, where it is about one-third narrower, sinuate, with a 

 long stiif bristle on each side at the tip and four more on each 

 lateral side ; paraglossse filiform, twice as long as the ligula, curving 

 above it at the tip, but entirely separated from it from the very base, 

 membranaceous, but horny towards the tip, palpi moderately long, 

 thick, with the last joint moderately swollen and abruptly truncate ; 

 head ovate, labrum broader than long, with the anterior part slightly 

 sinuose, joints of antennae compressed ; prothorax more quadrate 

 than cordiform ; elytra elongated, parallel, wings under the elytra 

 depressed, subtruncate behind, and shorter than the anal segment ; 

 legs moderately long, joints of anterior tarsi short, triangular, those 

 of the median and posterior ones more elongated. 



In the male the joints of the anterior tarsi are broader, and the 

 three basal ones have underneath, on the inner side only, a row of 

 lamellae. 



Hah. The genus is represented in Hongkong, Ceylon, Java, and 

 the Malacca peninsula, and also on the Zanzibar mainland. 



Synopsis of Species. 



Head, protliorax, and elytra pitchy black, the latter with a sub- 

 median discoidal reddish patch quadricollis. 



Head and prothorax brick-red ; elytra black, with a narrow 

 testaceous outer margin . . limbatus. 



Planetes quadricollis, Chaud., 

 Eev. et Mag. ZooL, 1878, p. 191. 



Head piceous, black, shining, punctulated, with the apical part, 

 labrum, mandibles, palpi, antennas, and legs brick-red ; prothorax 

 very closely punctured, covered w^ith a short, thick pubescence, 

 piceous, with the outer margin reddish ; elytra elongate, depressed, 

 subparallel, slightly broader at the base than the prothorax at its 

 widest part, each elytron with six moderately raised costae with two 

 smaller ones in the intervals, and all the costae with yellowish -brown 

 short hairs, black with a brown tinge, and with a subquadrate, 

 discoidal reddish patch placed a little above the median part and 

 reaching from the second to the fifth costa ; under side black, punc- 



