1896.] of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 175 



Var. P. damara. 



Smaller than P.fastigiatus ; head, prothorax, and legs very pale red ; 

 elytra much more narrow, with the outer sides nearly parallel, and 

 also less convex on the upper part ; the postical yellow margin is. 

 broader and ascends the sutural part. Length 12-14 mm. ; width 

 5-6 mm. 



Hab. Southern Damaraland. 



Pheropsophus Dregei, Chaud,, 

 Monogr. Brach., Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg., 1876, p. 29. 



Head, prothorax, and antennae brick-red ; legs brick-red, some- 

 times flavescent ; head with a small infuscate frontal patch, often 

 indistinct ; prothorax edged with black all round, and with a sub- 

 triangular marginal patch at the apex ; elytra elongate, more 

 parallel than in the other South African species, black, costate, the 

 costse shining, the intervals opaque, and having on each side a small 

 humeral yellowish patch connected with the basal margin, the 

 outer margin is narrowly edged with pale yellow from the humeral 

 angle to four-fifths of the length, and the posterior one is also edged 

 with a still narrower band, while the extreme apical part of the costae 

 is flavescent ; under side black ; pectus yellow or brick-red. Length 

 18-20 mm. ; width 7-8 mm. 



Hah. Mozambique (Eikatla, Lourengo-Marquez). 



In some examples the humeral yellowish or brick-red patch is 

 sometimes very indistinct. 



Pheropsophus Bohemani, Chaud., 

 Plate III., fig. 4. 

 Monogr. Brach., Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg., 1876, p. 26. 

 P. insignis, Bohem., Insect. Caffr., i., p. 71. 



Head, prothorax, antennae, and legs brick-red; prothorax narrowly 

 marginated with black on the outer sides, and with a subtriangular 

 patch of the same colour at the apex and base ; elytra a little 

 broader than the prothorax at the base, gradually ampliated 

 from the shoulders to the apex, where they are nearly twice as 

 broad, black, shining, with the costae raised, and having on each 

 side a basal yellowish patch varying in size but nearly always 

 covering three costae, a median discoidal patch also varying in size, 

 bisinuated, and reaching from the second to the sixth costa, but not 

 reaching the outer margin, and a narrow apical margin of the same 

 colour ascending a little along the tip of the costae ; under side black, 

 with the pectus more or less yellowish. Length 16-18 mm. ; width 

 6|— 8 mm. 



