1896.] of the Coleoi:)tera of South Africa. 283' 



minent; prothorax truncate in front and behind, with the lateral 

 sides triangular ; elytra elongate, subparallel, truncated behind ; 

 legs moderately long ; tarsi slender, very slightly hairy underneath^ 

 gradually decreasing in size, the fourth one very short, not incised;, 

 claws slender, not pectinate. 



Hah. This genus occurs in North and South America, Burmah, 

 Ceylon, and Hong Kong, and Dr. Gestro has quite lately described 

 an African species from the Galla country. 



Pentagonica elegans. Per., 

 Plate VII., fig. 10. 



Antennae, palpi, and head black, opaque, the neck reddish ; head 

 with a very faint median groove, and smooth ; prothorax pentagonal, 

 with the outer margins recurved,, finely grooved longitudinally in the. 

 centre, pale red, with a small round discoidal black spot on each side 

 of the median groove ; scutellum reddish ; elytra elongate, nearly 

 parallel, slightly ampliate behind, with the apical part truncate^ 

 nearly straight, depressed, punctato-striate, without any puncture in 

 the third interval, pale yellow, with a sutural black band extending 

 as far as the third stria on each side, from the base to two-thirds of 

 the length and continuing from there along the suture only as far as 

 the apex, the discoidal part from about the middle backwards is 

 slightly infuscate, and the apical margin black ; this sutural band 

 is a little broader near the base, where it extends as far as the fourth 

 stria ; under side and legs pale yellow ; abdomen infuscate. 

 Length 5^-6 mm. 



Hah. Zambezia (Salisbury), Natal (Escourt). 



Gen. GLYPHODACTYLA, Chaud., 

 Bull. Mosc, 1837, vol. vii., p. 9, and 1850, p. 372. 



Mentum broadly notched, with a robust, very sharp tooth in the 

 middle; ligula narrow, rounded at the apex, the paraglossae a little 

 longer than the ligula, and bluntly triangular at the tip, last joint of 

 maxillary and labial palpi a little longer than the penultimate one, 

 and ovate ; labrum quadrate, notched, the right mandible with a 

 median inner tooth ; prothorax nearly round, a little sinuated at the 

 apex ; elytra oblong, plane, truncate behind, twice as broad and 

 three times as long as the prothorax ; tarsi depressed, with a longi- 

 tudinal, well-defined impression on the second, third, and fourth 

 joints ; claws pectinate. 



This genus, which is not knowm to me, seems to be closely alUed 

 to Leptosarciis, from which it is differentiated by the shape of the 

 last joint of the palpi, the shape of the prothorax (although this is 



