228 Descriptive Catalogue [1896. 



No infuscated patch on the disk ; lateral band of elytra narrow . . inornatus. 



Lateral band short, produced into a transverse band below the 

 middle debilis. 



Prothorax moderately broad ; elytra with a lateral infuscate band 

 reaching on one side from near the base to the apex and invading the 

 whole of the postical part dilucidus. 



Prothorax very narrow ; lateral infuscate band beginning at a 

 great distance from the shoulder limhatiis. 



Elytra with three brown costse, with the intervals tessellated with 

 brown tessellatus. 



Xenitenus plagiatus, Bohem. 

 Dromiiis plagiatus, Insect. Caffr., i., p. 48. 



Head, prothorax, palpi, and antennae light testaceous ; head nearly 

 smooth ; prothorax short, subquadrate, very slightly convex on the 

 disk, the outer margins acute, grooved longitudinally in the centre, 

 finely plicate transversely, sometimes of a lighter hue than the head, 

 and with two black or infuscate bands on the disk ; elytra very 

 finely aciculate, parallel, plane, narrowly punctato-striate with the 

 intervals plane, very pale yellow, almost transparent, with a tri- 

 angular infuscate patch in the centre of the base, and on each side 

 a black band curving round the shoulder, running on the fifth, 

 sixth, and seventh intervals at a certain distance from the base to 

 about two-thirds of the length of the elytra, when it spreads over the 

 whole posterior part ; on the postical patch and on the lateral band 

 are more or less regular series of quadrate shallow punctures of the 

 colour of the background, that is to say pale yellow, forming thus a 

 kind of tessellated spots ; there are three such punctures on the third 

 interval, four or five on the fifth, and five or six on the seventh ; 

 under side and legs pale yellow ; abdomen slightly infuscate. 

 Length 6J-7 mm. ; width 2 mm. 



Hah. Cape Colony (Stellenbosch). Found under dead bark. 



Xenitenus modestus. 



Size, shape, and colouring as in X. plagiatus ; prothorax with 

 two infuscate patches ; elytra very finely aciculate, parallel, plane, 

 narrowly punctato-striate with the intervals plane, very pale yellow, 

 almost transparent, the triangular basal patch is very faint, the 

 lateral band on each side is not well defined and often reduced to an 

 infuscated line on each of the fifth, sixth, and seventh intervals which 

 often disappear altogether, the transverse postical patch is made of 

 irregular lines or dots, and the punctures on the posterior part of the 

 third interval, and those on the fifth, sixth, and seventh intervals are 

 discernible, but there is no tessellation. Length 6^7 mm. ; width 

 2 mm. 



Hah. Cape Colony (Carnarvon, Hope Town). Found under 

 stones. 



