1896.] of the Colcoptera of South Africa. 225 



tato-striate, with the intervals convex and closely punctured, darker 

 red than the head and prothorax, the three basal joints of tarsi 

 somewhat infuscate. Length 7 mm. ; width 3 mm. 



Hah. Caffraria, teste Bohem. 



Kindly communicated by Prof. C. Aurivilius, of the Stockholm 

 Museum. 



De Chaudoir was right in his conjecture that Boheman's Callida 

 castanea was referable to this genus. 



Cylindeocranius errans, 

 , Plate v., fig. 13. 



Head and prothorax pale testaceous red ; mandibles black in- 

 ternally ; antennae with the four basal joints pale yellow, the others 

 rufescent ; head deeply punctured ; prothorax hardly longer than 

 broad, subcordiform although not much narrowed at the base, 

 deeply and closely punctured, faintly grooved longitudinally in the 

 centre and very briefly pubescent ; elytra elongated, somew^hat 

 convex, nearly straight, but slightly compressed for a very short 

 distance above the median part, and without any projection from the 

 humeral angle to the third of the length, deeply punctato-striate with 

 the intervals convex and every alternate one with a regular series of 

 deep punctures, pale yellow, but not transparent, with a light infus- 

 cate discoidal band reaching from below the basal part to some 

 distance from the apex, extending from the suture to and including 

 the fifth interval, produced a little below the median part in a sub- 

 quadrate patch reaching almost to the eighth interval, enclosing an 

 ovate part of the paler background, but stopping short of the postical 

 part ; under side and legs pale yellow ; abdomen somewhat infus- 

 cate on the sides. Length 9 mm. ; width 3 mm. 



Hab. Damaraland (Walfish Bay, Kalahari Desert). 



Gen. DEMETEIAS, Bonelh, 

 Observ. Entom., part i. 



Mentum broadly notched, with an acute median tooth ; ligula 

 moderately long, shghtly notched at the tip ; paraglossse membra- 

 naceous, soldered with the ligula and slightly longer and rounded at 

 the top ; last joint of the lapial palpi inflated and sharply acuminate 

 at the tip, that of the maxillary subcylindrical and truncate at the 

 apex ; mandibles not very long ; labrum subquadrate, slightly 

 sinuated at the apex ; eyes moderately prominent ; antennae filiform ; 

 head narrowed behind the eyes ; prothorax longer than broad, sub- 

 cordiform, with the posterior angles very acute and projecting much ; 

 elytra elongated, moderately plane, slightly enlarged gradually 

 behind, costate, truncate apically ; tarsi with the three ba.sal joints 



