278 Descriptive Catalogue [1896. 



Thyreopteeus luteicoknis, Chaud., 

 Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg., vol. xii., p. 144. 



Closely allied to T. flavosignatus ; the eyes are equally protruding, 

 and the prothorax has the same shortened shape, but the outer 

 sides as well as the posterior angles of the latter are a little more 

 rounded, the yellow patches on the elytra extend further on, the 

 anterior one reaching the eighth stria, the posterior one the seventh 

 and is produced further back towards the apex, so that the incision 

 on the suture is deeper ; the antennae are a little shorter and ferru- 

 ginous yellow without any spots ; the tarsi and all the inner part of 

 the legs of the same colour as the antennae. Length 9 mm. 



Hah. South Africa, near Cape of Good Hope, teste Chaud. 



Thyreopterus limbatus, Bohem., 

 Insect. Caffr., vol. i., p. 77. 



Head brick-red, with the labrum and the palpi yellowish red and 

 the mandibles black ; antennae yellowish red ; prothorax short, 

 hardly longer than broad, slightly rounded on the outer sides, and 

 moderately narrowed at the base with the outer angles rounded and 

 obtuse, moderately convex on the disk, very slightly plicate trans- 

 versely, grooved longitudinally in the centre, testaceous red, with 

 the whole of the disk very deeply infuscated ; scutellum black ; 

 elytra twice as broad as the prothorax, truncate at the base, with the 

 shoulders rounded, the outer sides straight, very slightly convex on 

 the upper part, narrowly and deeply striated, with the intervals 

 plane, broad, black, with the outer margins narrowly testaceous ; 

 under side and legs yellowish red; the sides of the pectus infuscate. 

 Length 6|^ mm. ; width 3 J mm. 



Hah. Natal (Malvern). 



Gen. CATASCOPUS, Kirby, 

 Trans. Linn. Soc, 1825, p. 94. 

 Mentum broad, the lateral lobes diverging slightly, a small 

 median, not very sharp, tooth, in the median part of the base ; ligula 

 slender, horny ; the paragiossae membranaceous, much longer than 

 the ligula, straight inward and outward, but not surrounding the 

 apical part of the ligula ; last joint of the maxillary and labial palpi 

 subcylindrical ; labrum very long, with six long setae at the tip ; the 

 four basal joints of the antennae glabrous ; prothorax cordiform ; 

 elytra truncate at the apex, with the shoulders slightly rounded, the 

 lateral sides nearly parallel, sinuate towards the outer posterior angle, 

 and the posterior margin produced diagonally towards the suture, 

 third interval with three punctures ; tarsi hairy underneath ; claws 

 not pectinate. 



