1896.] of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 301 



the outer margin, and without any denuded median band ; elytra 

 elongate, gradually ampliate behind from the base to near the apex, 

 and nearly twice as broad there as at the base, covered with light 

 ochraceous hairs, outer margin hardly lighter in colour than the disk ; 

 pectus and abdomen hairless. Length 12 mm. ; width 5 mm. 

 Hab. Cape Colony (Small Namaqualand). 



Graphipterus damaeensis. 



Head moderately broad, with two lateral yellow bands uniting 

 above the epistoma ; antennaB and legs black ; prothorax cordiform, 

 a little wider than the head, somewhat convex, although not so much 

 as in G. ciciudeloides, black, with a narrow band of whitish yellow 

 hairs on the outer margin ; elytra elongate, with the humeral angles 

 very sloping, a little broader at the apex than below the humeral 

 angles, striate, covered with a dense dark ochraceous pubescence,, 

 with a narrow greyish marginal band ; pectus and lateral sides of 

 abdomen hairless. Length 13 mm. ; width 4|- mm. 



The elytra are more parallel than in G. august as, the prothorax is-.. 

 not so plane, and the yellow hairs are disposed differently. 



Hab. Damaraland (? Goagas). 



Graphipterus ovipennis, Per., 

 Trans. S. Afric. Phil. Soc, vol. vi., 1892, p. 9. 



Head moderately broad, with tvs^o lateral cinnamon bands joining 

 above the epistoma ; antennsB black, with the three first joints and 

 the basal part of the fourth red ; prothorax slightly broader than the 

 head at the apex, one-third narrower at the base, one-third longer than 

 broad at its widest, slightly convex in the anterior part, clothed w^th 

 cinnamon hairs and having a narrow white outer margin, and a broad 

 black longitudinal median band, outer edge slightly serrate ; elytra 

 very ovate, clothed with pale yellow hairs, with two cinnamon spots 

 near the base, and having a broad sutural black margin acuminate 

 at the apex, being the continuation of the cephalic and prothoracic 

 median band ; under side of prothorax, the pectus, the lateral parts 

 of the abdomen, and the four last abdominal segments densely clothed 

 v/ith white hairs. Length 11-12 mm. ; width 5-5-|- mm. 



Hab. Ovampoland, 



Var. propinqims, loc. cit., p. 10. 



In this variety the small basal cinnamon patch has developed in 

 a more or less distinct, light cinnamon, narrow, discoidal band hardly 

 reaching beyond two-thirds of the length of the elytra. Length 

 11-12 mm. ; width 5-5^ mm. 



Hab. Ovampoland. 



