282 Descriptive Catalogue [1896. 



Besides these four species, De Chaudoir has given the description 

 of another species which he beheves to be South African, but with- 

 out being sure of it, and Motschulsky has also described two more, 

 one of which, G. fuscata, is beheved by Chaudoir to be allied to G. 

 eqtiestris, Bohem. 



COPTODEIIA FUSCATA, Motsch., 



Bull. Mosc, 1864, p. 223. 



Facies of Lami^rias chloroceijhala, but with a smaller head and 

 prothorax, colour fuscous; ovate, convex, moderately shining, 

 fuscous brown, with the mouth, palpi, antennae, and legs lighter 

 brown, sides of the prothorax recurved, posterior angles straight, 

 elytra deeply striate. Length 5f mm. ; width 2^ mm. 



Hah. Cape of Good Hope. 



I have not been able to obtain the description of G. cleplanata of 

 the same author, and De Chaudoir has no conception of what species 

 it can be. 



COPTODEEA TETEASEMA, Chaud., 



Mem. sur les Coptoderides, Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg., 1869, vol. xii., 



p. 189. 



Resembles the G. crucifera on account of the spots on the elytra, 

 but the colour is different, and the elytra are not dentate ; head 

 and prothorax rufous, with the clypeus and the outer sides of the 

 prothorax lighter ; antennae, palpi, and mouth rufous ; labrum lighter 

 in colour ; elytra dark brown, shining, tw^o spots on each elytron, 

 the anterior one is a little smaller, and the posterior one not much 

 denticulate behind; the under side is light brown, with the sternum 

 in the middle, and the base of the abdomen yellowish ; legs rufous, 

 femora a little darker towards the median part. Length 8^ mm. 



Hah: 7 South Africa. 



Gen. PENTAGONICA, Schm. Goeb., 

 Coleopt. Birm., p. 47. 

 Mentum, without any median tooth, the lateral lobes sharp and 

 diverging ; ligula broadly triangular, with the apical part obtuse, 

 bisetose ; the paraglossae very narrow, hardly longer than the lateral 

 angle of the upper part of the ligula, fused with it and ciliated with 

 short bristles ; antennae pubescent, as long as two-thirds of the 

 body, the tips of the joints with moderately long bristles, first joint 

 thick, club-shaped, second and fourth of equal length, fourth shorter 

 than the third, the others twice as long as broad and not slender, 

 last joint of maxillary and labial palpi fusiform, acuminate at the 

 tip ; labrum moderately long, covering the mandibles ; head 

 narrowed behind in a distinct neck; eyes large and very pro- 



