314 Descriptive Catalogue [1896. 



Gkaphipterus oblitebatus, Bohem., 



Plate YIII., fig. 1. 



Vet. Ac. Forh., 1860, p. 8. 



Covered with a greyish white pubescence ; head denuded in the 

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

 broad median longitudinal black band, outer edges hardly serrulate ; 

 elytra quadrate, with a broad sutural black band reaching from, the 

 base to three-fourths of the length, acuminate at the tip, and two 

 narrower discoidal bands of the same colour, the first one beginning 

 at a long distance from the base, nearly reaching the apex, and the 

 second one beginning at about the median part and coalescing, long 

 above the apical part with the first discoidal line ; legs slightly 

 reddish. Length 13 mm. ; width 6|- mm. 



Hah. Damaraland (banks of Svakop Eiver). 



Graphipterus ieritans. 



Covered with a yellowish pubescence ; head denuded in the centre ; 

 antennae entirely black ; prothorax with a broad median black band, 

 outer sides hardly serrulate ; elytra quadrate, the suture with a 

 moderately broad black band reaching from the base to four-fifths 

 of the length, and reduced in the posterior fifth into a small line 

 reaching the apex, and on each side a discoidal black band as broad 

 as the sutural one, running parallel to it, slightly aculeate at the 

 tip, and stopping a little short of the apex ; legs black. Length 

 13 mm. ; width 6 mm. 



Hah. Cape Colony (Kimberley). 



Graphipterus trivittatus. Gory, 



Ann. Soc. Ent. France, 1836, p. 209, pi. v., fig. 2. 



Bull. Mosc, 1837, p. 12. 



G. rectilineatus, Chaud. 



G. ohscurns, Gory, Ann. Soc. Ent. France, 1833, p. 207. 



Covered with a yellow pubescence ; head denuded in the centre ; 

 antennae entirely black ; prothorax with the edges of the outer 

 margins hardly serrulate, in the centre a broad longitudinal black 

 band ; elytra elongato-quadrate, with a moderately broad sutural 

 black band reaching from the base to about four-fifths of the length, 

 reduced from there to a narrow line reaching the apex, and con- 

 nected where the attenuation begins by a narrow diagonal line with 

 the apical part of an equally broad discoidal black band reaching 

 from a short distance from the base to nearly the apex ; legs black. 

 Length 12 mm. ; width 5-6 mm. 



Hah. Cape Colony (Hopefield, Grahamstown, Caledon, Touw's 

 River) . 



