1896.] of the Goleoptera of South Africa. 291 



legs redder brown ; head finely and irregularly plicate, like the 

 prothorax, which is much more narrow than in the two preceding 

 species, imparting at once a distinct look to this species, apart from 

 the difference in the sculpture ; the outer margins are also less 

 rounded and the edge more recurved; elytra elongato-quadrate, three 

 and a half as long as the prothorax and nearly twice broader, finely 

 punctato-striate, with the intervals convex, no puncture on the third 

 interval ; in this and the preceding species the outer margin is very 

 narrow laterally and hardly punctured, except in the posterior part ; 

 abdomen turning to black ; hind tibiae incurved. Length 17 mm. ; 

 width 7 mm. 



Hab. British Bechuanaland. 



Teibe aKAPHIPTEEIDES. 



Ligula narrow, convex, adhering to the paraglossse, which are very 

 broad, truncate at the apex, one-third longer or nearly as long as the 

 ligula, and surrounding it on the anterior part, the outer angles with 

 three long rigid bristles, the embossed apical part of the ligula 

 also with two long, slender bristles ; palpi subfiliform, second joint 

 of the labial palpi with three rigid, inner bristles ; mentum broad ; 

 mandibles sharp, arcuate at the tip, and with a short basal tooth ; 

 head ovate on the anterior part, not narrowed behind, with a ridge 

 above the eyes, which are large and protuding, and have two supra- 

 orbital setae ; joints of antennae carinated on the inner part, the three 

 first joints glabrous, the others pubescent and more or less com- 

 pressed and dilated, but never filiform ; prothorax more or less 

 cordiform ; elytra depressed, truncated more or less obliquely at the 

 apex, with the anal segment projecting, always covered with a very 

 short, thickly set pubescence ; tibiae grooved on the inner side, the 

 anterior ones with two moderately long apical spurs, the outer one 

 stouter and longer in the median and posterior legs ; claws not pec- 

 tinate. 



Grajjhipterides , like their close allies, Anthiades, are a very typical 

 feature of the South African Coleopterous fauna. Nothing is known 

 of their life-history. Only once did I find in the immediate neigh- 

 bourhood of an ant {Plagiolejns fallax) a number of Graphipterus 

 trilineatus with the elytra quite soft, half imbedded in a round 

 depression under a stone, where they had apparently undergone 

 their metamorphosis. 



They are generally met with at the beginning of spring in the 

 south-western districts of the Cape Colony, or at the beginning of 



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