1896.] of the Colcoptera of South Africa. 313 



ochre-yellow pubescence whitening on the outer sides, the edge of 

 which is serrulate, median part of the disk with a broad longitudinal 

 black band ; elytra nearly quadrate and covered with an ochraceous- 

 yellow pubescence, the suture with a broad black band reaching 

 from base to apex, and on each side a discoidal band of the same 

 colour narrowed towards the lower end, not reaching so far as the 

 sutural one, and divided in the centre for two-thirds of its length by 

 a very narrow line of the colour of the background ; legs black ; 

 tibiae sometimes reddish. Length 9J-10|- mm. ; width 5-6 mm. 

 Hab. Transvaal (Potchefstroom, Pretoria, Klerksdorp). 



Graphipteeus vittatus, Dej., 

 Spec. Col., vol. v., p. 461. 



G. vittipennis, Bohem., Insect.- Caffr., i., p. 85. 



Head and prothorax covered with a yellow-ochre pubescence 

 turning to greyish white on the outer margins of the prothorax, 

 the lateral edges of which are not serrulate ; head denuded in the 

 centre ; prothorax with a narrow longitudinal black band ; the three 

 basal joints of antennge reddish ; elytra quadrate, covered with a 

 yellow pubescence with a very narrow white outer margin, the 

 suture with a moderately broad black band reaching from base to 

 apex, and on each side two narrower parallel discoidal bands united 

 behind near the apex ; legs black. Length 12 mm. ; width 6 mm. 



Hah. Transvaal (Potchefstroom). 



Gbaphiptekus mashunus, 

 Plate VIII., fig. 2. 



Densely covered with a deep ochre-yellow pubescence ; head 

 denuded in the centre ; antennae totally black ; prothorax with the 

 outer edges not serrulate, the pubescence on the anterior angles 

 whitening slightly, in the centre a broad median black band ; elytra 

 quadrate, with a broad black sutural band and three narrow discoidal 

 lines merging in the posterior part into a very broad transverse band 

 reaching the third band on each side, and three discoidal narrow 

 lines merging in the posterior part into a broad transverse band 

 reaching the outer black line on each side, with the posterior edge 

 produced in a broad triangular sutural point reaching the apex, and 

 a narrow outer line that seems to be the prolongation of the outer 

 discoidal line, and which reaches as often as not the apical margin ; 

 the second and third discoidal black lines are united at about the 

 third of the length by a more or less quadrate black patch ; legs and 

 antennae totally black. Length 14-15 mm. ; width 7-8 mm. 



Hah. Zambezia (Salisbury). 



