1896.] of the Coleoptcra of South Africa. 309 



Geaphipteeus amicus, V6t., 

 Trans. S. Afric. Phil. Soc, 1892, vol. vi., p. 11. 



Head covered with, a yellowish pubescence, broadly denuded in 

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

 a narrow median longitudinal band, covered with a yellow pubes- 

 cence, broadly edged with white ; elytra short, quadrate, with a 

 narrow sutural yellow band, and having on each side a broad black 

 band, close to the suture, beginning at the base and reaching the 

 apical margin, separated by a narrow white line from a slender black 

 or dark cinnamon line reaching from below the base to about three- 

 fourths of the length of the elytron, edged with a narrow white 

 border, outer margin white and separated by a narrow yellowish 

 space from the white line edging the second dorsal black band ; sides 

 of abdomen hairless ; legs black, with the tibiae rufescent. Length 

 10 mm. ; width 5 mm. 



Hab. Ovampoland. 



Graphipterus sexvittatus, Chaud., 

 Bull. Mosc, 1870, p. 327. 



Head covered with a greyish-yellow pubescence, denuded in the 

 centre ; prothorax broad, with a median black band and the disk 

 and sides with a yellowish pubescence, outer margins crenulate ; 

 elytra broad, quadrate, with the pubescence of the same colour as 

 that of the prothorax, and having on each side three black bands 

 of equal width and equi-distant, the outer ones a little shorter than 

 the inner one ; sides of abdomen hairless ; legs black. Length 

 13 mm. ; width 6^ mm. 



Hab. South Africa (exact locality unknown), ? Mozambique. 



Graphipterus fraternus. Per., 

 Trans. S. Afric. Phil. Soc, 1892, vol. vi., p. 100. 



Head covered with a greyish-yellow pubescence, denuded in the 

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

 with a yellow pubescence, with no trace of a longitudinal median 

 band, outer margins not serrated ; elytra broad, quadrate, covered 

 with a yellow pubescence and having on each side a broad black 

 band, close to the suture, reaching from the base to the apex, divided 

 in two at the base by a very narrow line of the colour of the back-' 

 ground, reaching from the base to about four-fifths of the length, and 

 a narrower one, nearly equi-distant from the first band and the outer 

 margin and a little shorter ; sides of abdomen hairless ; legs black, 

 sometimes rufescent, tibiae red. Length 13 mm. ; width 6 mm. 



Hab. Transvaal (Barberton), Mozambique (Lebombo). 



