308 Descrij^tive Catalogue ' [1896. 



elytra short, quadrate, with a narrow white outer margin and a 

 juxta-sutural black band on each side of equal width from the base 

 to four-fifths of the length, slightly incised at the end with the inner 

 edge produced as a fine line towards the apical part of the elytra, 

 which it does not reach ; this juxta-sutural patch is occasionally 

 edged on both sides with a very narrow line of faintly white or 

 lighter yellow pubescence ; legs black, with the tibiae reddish. 

 Length 9-10 mm. ; width 6 mm. 



Hah. Zambezia (Salisbury), Bechuanaland (Eamoutsa). 



Geaphipterus mimus. Per., 

 Trans. S. Afric. Phil. Soc, 1892, p. 98. 



Head covered with a yellow pubescence and denuded in the 

 centre ; the three basal joints of antennae red ; prothorax covered 

 with deep ochraceous hairs, with a whitish marginal band, having 

 a narrow longitudinal median band, outer sides not crenulate ; elytra 

 moderately elongato-quadrate, covered with yellow hairs, and having 

 on each side, at a very small distance from the suture, a moderately 

 broad black band reaching from the base to near the apex, and 

 gradually acuminated at the tip in a fine line reaching further 

 towards the apical margin ; abdominal segments hairless ; legs black. 

 Length 10-12 mm. ; width 5-|— 6 mm. 



Hah. Cape Colony (Kimberley), Orange Free State (Parys). 



Closely allied to G. hilineatics, but the elytra are more elongato- 

 quadrate, the juxta-sutural band is not so broad, and instead of being 

 of equal width throughout, tapers slightly behind, and is aculeate at 

 the apex instead of being truncate, with the inner edge projecting. 



Geaphipterus leucoph^us, Chaud., 

 Bull. Mosc, 1870, p. 46. 



Head covered with a yellowish- white pubescence, hardly denuded 

 in the centre ; the three basal joints of antennae reddish ; prothorax 

 with a narrow median longitudinal band, covered with a cinnamon 

 pubescence broadly edged with white ; elytra elongato-quadrate, 

 with a broad whitish sutural band, and on each side a moderately 

 broad black band beginning at the base, and cut diagonally at the tip, 

 the point of which reaches nearly the apical margin ; this black band, 

 which is close to the suture, is separated by a narrow white line 

 from a cinnamon band nearly as broad as the white sutural one, and 

 the whole elytron is broadly marginated with white ; abdominal 

 segments hairless ; legs black. Length 12 mm. ; width 6 mm. 



Hah. Lake N'Gami, teste Chaud. 



