1896.] of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 231 



Head, prothorax, and elytra very pale yellow ; elytra slightly 



punctato-striate ; anal segment black tenella. 



Elytra deeply punctato-striate punct-ato-striata. 



COPTOPTEEA BRUNNEA, Chaud., 



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



Head elongato-ovate, smooth, with two longitudinal impressions 

 between the eyes, which are not prominent ; prothorax a little 

 broader than the head, as long as broad, hardly rounded laterally, 

 slightly emarginate at the apex and with the posterior angles rounded 

 and with a hardly defined depression on each side of the base ; elytra 

 elongated, slightly narrowed in the basal part, plane, striate, with 

 the striae crenulate, truncate, and slightly diagonal behind. 



Hab. Cape, teste Chaud. 



COPTOPTERA ANGUSTICOLLIS, Bohem., 



Plate III., fig. 7. 

 Insect. Caffr., i., p. 47. 



Head and prothorax pale yellowish red; head smooth, bi-impressed, 

 narrowed behind, smooth, shining ; prothorax twice as long as broad, 

 narrower than the head, a little broader at the apex than at the base, 

 very finely plicate transversely and with a median narrow groove ; 

 elytra twice as broad at the base as the basal part of the prothorax, 

 slender, but gradually ampliated from the base to near the apex, 

 pale yellow, with the first two intervals slightly infuscate, finely 

 punctato-striate, with the intervals plane, and with a series of brown 

 tessellated patches on the hind part of the third, fifth, and seventh 

 intervals ; under side and legs pale yellow. Length 7 mm. ; width 

 2J- mm. 



Hab. Caffraria, teste Bohem. 



COPTOPTERA CAPICOLA. 



Head and prothorax pale brown ; head smooth, bi-impressed, 

 narrowed behind, shining ; prothorax twice as long as broad, 

 narrower than the head, broader at the apex than at the base, 

 and somewhat although slightly rounded in the anterior part, 

 very finely plicate and with an ill-defined median narrow groove, 

 and two fuscous bands ; elytra twice as broad at the base as 

 the base of the prothorax, gradually ampliated from the base to 

 near the apex where they are nearly twice as broad as at the base, 

 not quite plane, striate, with the intervals as broad as the striae, 

 slightly convex, second, fourth, and sixth brown or slightly infus- 

 cated, and the three intervening ones with a series of tessellated 



