1896.] of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 303 



Not unlike in colouring G. amabilis and G. suturalis, but the 

 shape of the elytra is very different owing to their having no humeral 

 angle, whereas in G. amabilis and suturalis the humeral angle is 

 much developed, and thus gives to the elytra a more quadrate 

 appearance ; the dorsal cinnamon band is broader than the yellow 

 background which it divides in two, and does not reach quite the 

 apex. 



Hah. Cape Colony (? Vaal Eiver, Kimberley). 



Geaphipterus suturalis, Bohem., 

 Ofvers. Vet. Ac. Forh., 1860, p. 7. 



Head moderately broad, with two yellow-ochre lateral bands 

 uniting in front, the three first joints of the antennae and the 

 basal part of the fourth red ; prothorax densely clothed with yellow 

 ochre hairs and with a median black longitudinal band, outer margin 

 serrulate ; elytra elongato-quadrate, the humeral angles project and 

 the outer sides are but very slightly ampliate, they are substriate and 

 covered with yellow-ochre hairs, darker on the disk, thus forming 

 two narrow pale yellow lines, the one edging the broad sutural 

 black band ; sternum and sides of abdomen with white hairs. 

 Length 14-16 mm. ; width 6-8 mm. 



Hah. Cape Colony (Kimberley), ? Transvaal, Damaraland (Nolagi 

 Eiver), teste Bohem. 



Geaphipterus adamantinus, Per., 

 Trans. S. Afric. Phil. Soc, 1888, p. 79. 



Head with two lateral greyish brown bands uniting in the anterior 

 part, the three basal joints of the antennae red, but the apical part of 

 the third infuscate ; prothorax covered with greyish-brown hairs, 

 and having a median, black, longitudinal band, outer margins not 

 serrulate ; elytra elongato-ovate, covered with greyish-brown hairs 

 and having a very broad sutural black band, slightly inflated in the 

 median part and gradually narrowed from past the middle to the 

 apex ; under side as in G. suturalis. 



Allied to that species, but the outer margins of the prothorax are 

 not serrulate ; the elytra are more ovate, that is to say the humeral 

 angles are more rounded, there is no trace of a whiter line on the 

 outer margin or alongside the black sutural band which is also 

 broader and more acuminate towards the apex. Length 14-17 mm. ; 

 width 6-7 mm. 



Hah. Cape Colony (Kimberley). 



