208 Descriptive Catalogue [1896. 



Metaxymorphus pusillus, n. sp. 



Light testaceous ; head, reddish ; prothorax with two fuscous 

 bands reaching from base to apex ; elytra deeply striate, semi-trans- 

 parent, with the striae a little darker behind than the background. 

 Length 5 mm. ; width 2 mm. 



Hah. Cape Colony (Kimberley, Burghesdorp). 



Metaxymorphus Goryi, Chaud., 



Plate v., fig. 5. 



Bull. Mosc, 1850, ii., p. 371. 



Eeddish brown ; head deeply infuscate ; prothorax reddish brown, 

 with two broad darker bands on the disk, hardly distinct from the 

 background ; elytra finely striate, with a well-defined puncture at 

 about the median part of the third interval, the intervals finely 

 aciculate, dark brown, with a broad lateral marginal testaceous band, 

 coalescing at the base, with a subquadrate patch of the same colour 

 under the shoulder ; abdomen infuscate. Length 10^ mm. ; width 

 4 mm. 



Hah. Cape Colony (Grahamstown). 



Metaxymorphus affinis, 

 Plate v., fig. 6. 



Light testaceous ; head deeply infuscate ; prothorax testaceous, 

 with two well-defined black bands reaching from the apex to the 

 base ; elytra finely striate with an infuscate dorsal patch reaching 

 from base to apex and extending on each side from the suture to the 

 eighth interval, with the eighth interval, the outer margin, and the 

 anterior part of the fifth and sixth intervals light testaceous. 



Closely allied to M. Goryi, but w^hereas in M. Goryi the subhumeral 

 light testaceous band is connected with the outer margin, it is 

 separated in M. affinis by the seventh interval, w^hich is infuscate 

 from base to apex. Length 7-9 mm. ; width 3-4 mm. 



Hah. Cape Colony (Constantia), Bredasdorp. 



Metaxymorphus stigmatellus, 

 Plate v., fig. 7. 



Light testaceous, with the head redder ; prothorax without any 

 fuscous bands ; elytra striate, with the striae finely punctured, semi- 

 transparent, and with a few irregular elongated fuscous maculae in 

 the median part of the disk on the fifth, sixth, and seventh intervals, 

 and also on the apical part of the first interval ; under side very pale 

 yellow. Length 8 mm. ; wddth 3 mm. 



Hah. Cape Colony (Cape Town). 



