230 • Descriptive Catalogue [1896. 



interval with six hardly defined punctures, testaceous, ^Yith a lateral 

 black band beginning at about one-third of the length, extending 

 from the fifth interval to the outer margin and running behind along 

 the posterior margin as far as the suture ; abdomen infuscate. 

 Length 6-7 mm. ; width lf-2^ mm. 



Hah. Cape Colony (exact locality unknown). 



Closely allied to X. dilucidus ; the prothorax is much narrower, 

 and the lateral band on the elytra does not reach so near the 

 shoulder. 



Xenitenus tessellatus. 



Pale testaceous ; head and prothorax a little redder than the 

 elytra ; prothorax longer than broad, with the outer sides nearly 

 parallel, and a slightly infuscated longitudinal band on each side of 

 the median groove ; elytra subparallel, a little broader past the 

 middle than at the base, plane, narrowly punctato-striate with the 

 intervals slightly convex, the second, fourth, and sixth on each side 

 with broad, deep punctures, testaceous, with three bronze costae on 

 each side, and' the intervals tessellated with brown; in some examples 

 the brown tessellation has nearly disappeared in the median ]Dart of 

 the disk ; abdomen infuscated. Length 7 mm. ; width 2^- mm. 



Hah. Cape Colony (Stellenbosch), Zambezia (Salisbury). 



Gen. COPTOPTEKA, Chaud., 

 Bull. Mosc, 1837, iii., p. 5. 



Mentum with a long, sharp tooth in the middle, lateral lobes long, 

 sharp ; ligula narrow, setose at the tip, not emarginate, paraglossse 

 lanciform at the apex and slightly longer than the ligula ; last joint 

 of labial and maxillary palpi fusiform, truncate at the very tip ; 

 labrum long, bluntly triangular, incised at the tip ; head very long 

 behind the eyes ; prothorax longer than broad, with the outer 

 sidss nearly straight ; elytra elongated, either parallel or slightly 

 ampliated behind, plane, truncated subdiagonally behind ; tarsi sub- 

 filiform, fourth joint incised ; claws strongly pectinate, with four or 

 five teeth on each side. 



Synopsis of Species. 



Head, prothorax, and elytra totally brown hrunnca. 



Head and prothorax pale red ; elytra with an infuscated 

 suture and three faint, tessellated lines on each side . . . . (ingitsticolli". 



Prothorax with two fuscous bands ; elytra with the suture, 

 three continuous and three tessellated bands on each side 

 infuscated caincola. 



Head, prothorax, and elytra pale yellow ; a short triangular 

 black patch under the scutellum sciiicUayis. 



