1896.] of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 271 



and bearing two long setae ; paraglossae fused with the hgula, but 

 longer, rounded externally at tip, but not bending over the apex of 

 the ligula ; last joint of palpi subfusiform but broadly truncate at 

 the tip ; labrum subquadrate, slightly sinuate in front, and with 

 three long bristles on each side, mandibles long, sharp, and curved 

 at the tip ; antennae filiform ; head with a short neck, eyes prominent ; 

 prothorax short, broader than long, the anterior angles rounded, the 

 median part a little ampliated with the basal angles sharp and pro- 

 truding, the base slightly produced backward in the middle, or 

 straight ; elytra plane, truncate at the base with the outer sides 

 parallel, slightly rounded towards the posterior part and truncate at 

 the apex ; joints of tarsi decreasing in size from the basal one, the 

 fourth small, not incised, posterior tarsi longer than the median ones ; 

 claws not pectinate. 



Found under dead bark, or in damp or moist places in the short 

 grass. 



Hah. The genus is represented on the West Coast of Africa 

 (Gaboon). 



Synoijsis of Sioecies, 



Prothorax red, the base slightly produced backwards. 



Elytra black. 



Each elytron with a rounded yellow spot below the shoulder, 

 and another above the apex, near to the sutare quadri-guttata. 



A yellowish red submedian spot on each side of the suture, 

 and a patch of the same colour underneath caffra. 



Elytra cyaneous. 



Each elytron with a quadrate, yellow supra-apical patch on 

 the suture egregia. 



Elytra cyaneous, without any yellow markings distinguenda. 



Prothorax black, or reddish black, the base straight. 



Elytra black. 



Each elytron with an ovate, subdiagonal humeral yellowish 

 patch, and a smaller supra-postical one, also ovate, on each 

 side of the suture notahilis. 



Each elytron with a broad, humeral yellowish patch, and 

 a moderately broad, sutural, subtriangular one on each side of 

 the suture, and coalescing there with the one on the opposite 

 side plausibilis. 



Each elytron with a narrow, sinuated, transverse yellow 

 band near the base, and a narrow subtriangular sutural one 

 above the apex coalescing with the band on the opposite side . . fraterna. 



Arsinoe quadri-guttata, Castelnau, 



Plate III., fig. 9. 



Etudes Entom., 1835, pi. 2, fig. 6. 



Axin. quadrisignatus, Chaud., Bull. Mosc, iii., 1837, p. 10. 



Head deeply punctulated, labrum and anterior part of the head 



black, posterior part red ; apical part of the last joint of the palpi. 



