1896.] of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 269 



Synopsis of Species. 



Totally red, with the legs black , . sanguinea. 



Prothorax and elytra pale yellow, the former with two black spots 

 and the latter with a black sutural band and two patches on each 

 side, the posterior one disconnected with either suture or outer 

 margin caffra. 



Elytra with the posterior patch connected with the suture and 

 reaching nearly the outer margin suhcriiciata. 



Prothorax without any black spots ; elytra with a juxta-sutural 

 black band reaching neither base nor apex Holuhi. 



Lebistina sanguinea, Bohem. 



Lebia sanguinea, id., 



Insect. Caffr., i., p. 50. 



Head very dark red, closely plicate lengthways ; antennas and palpi 



black ; prothorax broader than long by one-third, with the outer 



sides straight and rounded in the anterior angles, finely plicate, dark 



brick-red, with the outer margins lighter ; elytra brick-red, not very 



shining, subelongate, gradually ampliated from below the humeral 



part to a little past three-fourths of the length where they are nearly 



one-fourth wider than at the base, a little convex, striate with the 



striae narrow, faintly punctured, and the intervals plane, broad, and 



each one with one series of shallow punctures ; under side pale red, 



legs and tarsi black, teeth of claws long. Length 9 mm. ; width 5 mm. 



Hah. Delagoa Bay (Eikatla), Zambezia (Salisbury). 



Lebistina caffea, Chaud., 



Plate. VI., fig. 20. 

 Bull. Mosc, 1877, i., p. 220. 



Head and labrum brick-red, closely and deeply punctured ; an-' 

 tennae black, with the first joint red; palpi black ; prothorax one-third 

 broader than long, very rugose, reddish in the centre, with two black 

 discoidal patches, and the anterior and outer margins yellow^ ; elytra 

 subelongated, ampliated gradually from the shoulder to past three- 

 fourths of the length where they are one-third broader than at the 

 base, convex, striate, with the striae shallow and the intervals plane 

 and closely punctured, pale yellow, with a sutural black band 

 covering the first and second intervals on each side, acuminate at 

 the apex, and expanding at the base in a subquadrate patch, reach- 

 ing the fourth stria, and on each side a small humeral oblong patch, 

 and a much larger elongate one beginning at about the medium 

 part of the disk, ending at a short distance from the apex, and 

 extending from the third stria to the inner edge of the outer margin ; 

 under side red, femora red, with the apical part as well as the legs 

 and tarsi black. Length 13 mm. ; width 6 mm. 



Hah. Natal (Malvern), Zambezia (Middle Limpopo, Buluwayo). 



