310 Descriptive Catalogue [1896. 



Geaphipterus consobrinus. 



Head with the same pubescence and median denudation as in 

 G. fraternus ; the pubescence of the prothorax and elytra is ahke, 

 the former has, however, a broad median black band, and the elytra 

 are a little more elongated, the two dorsal black bands on each 

 elytron are alike, but the inner one is not divided by a narrow 

 yellowish line as in fraternus ; sides of abdomen hairless ; legs 

 black. Length 12 mm. ; width 6 mm. 



Hah. Natal (Newcastle). 



Graphipterus plagiatus, Bohem., 

 Insect. Caffr., i., p. 87. 



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

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

 a deep yellow pubescence and a broad median longitudinal black 

 band, outer sides slightly serrulate ; elytra elongato-quadrate, 

 covered with a deep yellow pubescence and having on each side, at 

 a very short distance from the suture, a very broad discoida black 

 band running almost from base to apex, covering about two-thirds 

 of the width of the disk and divided in the anterior part for about 

 one-fourth of the length by a narrow line of the colour of the back- 

 ground ; towards the apical portion of that discoidal black band 

 there is also a small dent subdividing the apical part diagonally, 

 but not deeply ; legs black. Length 12-14 mm. ; width 5-6 mm. 



Hah. Transvaal (Potchefstroom, Pretoria). 



Geaphipterus elegantulus, Bohem., 

 Insect. Caffr., i., p. 83. 



Head, antennae, and prothorax like in fraternus, the outer sides 

 of the latter more serrate ; elytra elongato-quadrate, covered with a 

 yellowish pubescence, and having on each side, close to the suture, 

 a moderately broad black band reaching neither base nor apex, 

 aculeate behind, and parallel to it, a much shorter one coalescing 

 for two-thirds of its length with the first dorsal band ; legs black. 

 Length 11^-13 mm. ; width 5|— 6 mm. 



Hah. Natal (Malvern, Frere), Transvaal (Pretoria), Bechuanaland 

 (Eamoutsa). 



In my examples from the Pretoria district, which are also nearer 

 in colouring to Boheman's type, the second dorsal black band is 

 more slender where it does not coalesce with the first dorsal band, 

 and the sides of the prothorax and also the anterior part of the 

 elytra are chrome yellow instead of greyish yellow as in the Natal 

 examples. 



