1896.] of the Goleoptera of South Africa. 189 



with a broad, more or less ovate, reddish spot extending above the 

 apex from the fourth to the seventh striae, but disconnected with the 

 outer and also the apical margin ; abdomen black, with the central 

 part slightly reddish underneath. Length 6-9 mm.; width 3-4 mm. 



In one example from the Transvaal the colour of the head is light 

 brownish red instead of brick-red, and the elytra are fuscous instead 

 of being black. 



Hah. Orange Free State (Parys), Transvaal (Potchefstroom, 

 Zoutpansberg). 



Crepidogastek bimaculatus, Bohem., 

 Insect. Caffr., i., 1848, p. 69, pi. i., fig. D. 



Head, prothorax, palpi, antennae, and legs pale brick-red ; elytra 

 fuscous black, finely shagreened, broadly but not deeply striated, 

 with a basal yellowish red triangular band, and on each side a large, 

 ovate, subapical macula of the same colour, nearer to the outer 

 margin than to the suture ; epipleurse yellowish ; abdomen black 

 above, infuscate underneath, with the central part yellowish red. 

 Length 7 mm. ; width 4 mm. 



Hah. Natal (? D'Urban). 



Closely allied to the. preceding species, but has a basal triangular 

 yellowish patch on the elytra. 



Ceepidogaster scutellakis. 



Size, shape, and sculpture of C. insignis ; colour of head, pro- 

 thorax, abdomen, and legs light yellow instead of dark brick-red ; the 

 ovate apical yellow patch on the elytra is the same as in C. insignis 

 and G. himaculatus, but the black colour of the elytra is darker, and 

 there is round the scutellum a narrow yellow band hardly reaching 

 the sutural part ; in C. himaculatus the whole of the base is yellowish 

 red. Length 6 mm. ; width 3 mm. 



Hah. Transvaal (Pretoria). 



Crepidogaster infuscatus, Dej., 

 Spec. Col., vol. i., p. 296. 



Head, prothorax, antennae, and legs yellowish red ; elytra finely 

 shagreened and very slightly striated, with the intervals plane, of 

 the same colour as the head and prothorax, but with a fuscous 

 discoidal patch covering the whole of the postical part of the disk 

 without reaching the apex, and leaving an oval yellowish apical 

 lateral patch. Length 4-5 mm. ; width 3-4 mm. 



Hah. Cape Colony (?), Transvaal (Pretoria). 



