304 BescriiJtive Catalogue [1896. 



Graphipteeus vittiger, Per., 



Plate IV., fig. 2. 



Trans. S. Afric. Phil. Soc, vol. iv., 1888, p. 78. 



Head with two lateral deep yellow bands uniting in the anterior 

 part ; antennae with the three basal joints red ; prothorax with the 

 outer margins serrate, thickly covered with deep yellow hairs, 

 w^hitening very slightly on the edge, and with a moderately broad 

 median longitudinal black band ; elytra ovate, covered with pale 

 yellow hairs, and having a small humeral patch of the same colour 

 .as the sides of the prothorax, a sutural black band broader than that 

 of the prothorax, and a discoidal one on each side not quite so broad 

 as the sutural one, and reaching to a very short distance from the 

 apex ; sternum and sides of abdomen, also the four last abdominal 

 segments, clothed with white hairs. Length 12-13 mm. ; width 

 5-5|- mm. 



Hah. Cape Colony (Kimberley). 



GpvAphipterus femoratus, Chevr., 



Plate IV., fig. 1. 

 Mag. ZooL, Class ix., 1835, pi. 138. 



Head with two lateral yellow bands uniting in the anterior part ; 

 the three basal joints of the antennge red ; prothorax clothed with 

 moderately bright yellow hairs whitening a little in the anterior 

 angles, and having a black median longitudinal band, broader at 

 the base than at the apex ; elytra ovate, covered wuth bright yellow 

 hairs, whitening slightly along the outer margin, having a moderately 

 broad sutural black band, and on each side a discoidal one reaching 

 from the base to about the middle, and under it another slanting one, 

 shaped like a reversed comma, the point of which is connected with 

 the outer edge of the anterior band, and the broad part does not 

 reach the apex ; sternum and sides of abdomen with white hairs ; 

 femora red, black at the tip ; tibias and tarsi black. Length 13-15 

 mm. ; width 5-7 mm. 



Hah. Cape Colony (Fraserburg, Beaufort West, Hope Town, 

 Prieska) . 



G]^aphipterus postfasciatus, Fairm,, 

 Ann. Soc. Ent. France, 1888, p. 177. 

 Briefly ovate and somewhat depressed, fuscous black, shining with 

 the prothorax and elytra thickly clothed with greyish fulvous closely 

 set hairs ; prothorax denuded in the centre ; elytra narrowly mar- 

 ginated with white hairs ; el3^tra large, subrotund, covered with a 

 very densely set light punctures, with faint traces of costas, and 



