190 Descriptive Catalogue [1896. 



Ceepidogaster fusco-plagosus, P^r., 

 Trans. S. Afric. Phil. Soc, vol. iii., 1885, p. 76. 



Head, prothorax, antennae, and legs light yellow ; elytra elongated, 

 striate, with the striae punctured and the intervals plane, of the 

 same colour than the head and prothorax, and with a broad dorsal 

 brownish patch produced behind in a broad line alongside the 

 suture to the apex, and also narrowly along the outer margin ; owing 

 to the configuration of that dorsal band, each elytron has an oval 

 pale-yellow apical patch ; lateral sides of the abdomen underneath 

 infuscate. Length 6-6^ mm. ; width 2 mm. 



Hah. Cape Colony (Cape Town). 



Differs mostly from the preceding species in having the elytra 

 distinctly striate and the striae punctured. 



Crepidogastee consobeinus. 



Head, prothorax, antennae, and legs pale yellow ; elytra short, 

 faintly- striate near the suture, briefly pubescent, very dark brown, 

 with a triangular pale yellowish red triangular patch round the 

 scutellum and following each side of the suture to about two-thirds 

 of the length, and an oval patch of the same colour reaching from 

 the outer posterior angle to about half the width of each elytron ; 

 abdomen infuscated laterally underneath. Length 4-J mm. ; width 

 2J- mm. 



Hah. Cape Colony (Grahamstown). 



Eesembles C. infuscatus, but the elytra are more distinctly striate 

 and the infuscation rounds the humeral angle. 



Ceepidogastee nonsteiatus, Chaud., 

 Monogr. Brach., Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg., 1876, p. 95. 



Head, prothorax, antennae, and legs reddish brown, the two 

 former parts somewhat darker than the rest ; elytra short, very 

 faintly striated and very briefly pubescent, black, with an apical 

 pale yellow oval patch reaching from the outer posterior angle to 

 about half the width of each elytron ; abdomen infuscated laterally 

 underneath. Length 4 mm. ; width 2 mm. 



Hah. Cape Colony (Oudtshoorn). 



Ceepidogastee ovicollis, Chaud., 

 Monogr. Brach., Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg., 1876, p. 86. 



Head, prothorax, antennae, and legs pale red ; prothorax with the 

 median longitudinal groove hardly discernible ; elytra short, finely 

 shagreened, and very briefly pubescent, black, without any trace of 

 striation ; abdomen infuscated laterally underneath. 



Shape of the preceding species, to which it approximates nearly, 



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