1896.] of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 247 



median sutural infuscate patch extending on each side in the 

 shape of a triangle, the apex of which reaches the sixth stria ; under 

 side pale yellow, with the two apical abdominal segments infuscate. 

 Length 4-4|- mm. ; width 2^ mm. 



Phlceozetus tbansversus, Bohem., 



Plate v., fig. 11. 



Insect. Caffr., i., p. 57. 



Head, prothorax, antennas, and legs pale yellow, the joints of 

 antennae with long setae ; head and prothorax rugulose ; elytra 

 elongate, with the shoulders rounded and the outer sides nearly 

 straight ; narrowly punctato-striate, with the intervals plane, very 

 pale yellow, with a transverse infuscate post-median band extending 

 as far as the sixth stria on each side and broader along the suture, 

 where it ascends a little towards the median part ; under side pale 

 yellow. Length 5 mm. ; width 2 mm. 



Hab. Caffraria, teste Bohem. 



Phlceozetus dorsalis, 

 Plate v., fig. 16. 



Head, prothorax, antennae, palpi, and legs brick-red, the two first- 

 named parts rugulose ; elytra elongate, parallel, deeply punctato- 

 striate, with the intervals broad and carinate in the centre, reddish 

 yellow, with a subtriangular transverse patch extending at its broadest 

 part, that is to say, along the suture, a little beyond the median part, 

 and extending as far transversely as the outer margin and broadest on 

 the first four intervals ; femora a little paler than the tibiae ; under 

 side pale yellow. Length 5 mm. ; width 2 mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Cape Town). 



Phlceozetus ambulans. 



Paler than P. dorsalis, with the elytra a little shorter, and pro- 

 portionately broader ; striae on elytra slightly deeper, but the 

 intervals equally convex ; posterior black patch nearly identical, but 

 broadly truncate in the anterior part instead of being produced 

 triangularly along the suture, and also a little more sinuate in the 

 sutural part of the posterior edge. Length 4f mm. ; width 2J mm. 



Hab. Zambezia (Salisbury). 



Phlceozetus gentilis. 



Head, prothorax, antennae, palpi, and legs brick-red ; head and 

 prothorax rugulose ; elytra subelongate, somewhat ampliate past the 

 middle, moderately rounded at the shoulders ; narrowly punctato- 

 striate, with the intervals plane, nearly smooth, pale yellow, with 



