1896.] of the Coleoptera of SoutJi Africa. 315 



Graphipteeus trilineatus, Fabric, 

 Syst. Eleut., i., p. 223. 

 Dej., Spec. Col., i., p. 337 ; Icon., ii., pi. 6, fig. 3. 



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

 antennae entirely black ; prothorax with a broad median longitudinal 

 black band, edges of outer margins hardly serrulate ; elytra elongato- 

 quadrate, with a narrow sutural black band reaching from base to 

 apex, and a juxta-sutural one coalescing from the base to past the 

 median part with the sutural one, and from there running diagonally 

 and uniting near the apex with the tip of a broad discoidal band 

 running from near the base close to the apex, and slightly narrower 

 behind than in the anterior part ; legs black. Length 12 mm. ; 

 width 5-5^ mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Cape Town, Stellenbosch, Worcester, Tul- 

 bagh, Malmesbury). 



Geaphiptekus arcuatus. Gory, 

 Ann. Soc. Ent. France, 1833, p. 206. 



G. Bo2txi, Casteln. Etud. Entom., p. 57 ;' Hist. Nat. Ins., i., ]d1. iv., 



fig. 6. 

 G. Hopei, Casteln., Hist. Nat. Ins., i., p. 59. 



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

 antennae black ; prothorax with a broad median longitudinal black 

 band ; elytra elongato- quadrate, with the sutural band of the same 

 shape and colour as in G. trilineatus, but the discoidal one is 

 narrower and emits a long inner spur, reaching about the centre of 

 the elytron ; legs black. Length 11^-12-|- mm. ; width 5-6 mm. 



Hah. Cape Colony (Caledon, Knysna, Grahamstown). 



Graphipterus montanus. Per., 

 Trans. S. Afric. Phil. Soc, 1888, vol. iv., p. 80. 



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

 antennae black ; prothorax with a broad median triangular dark 

 brown band ; elytra broad, subelongato-quadrate, covered with a 

 yellow pubescence, but with a narrow white margin ; elytra with a 

 brown broad sutural band, narrowed behind in a line reaching the 

 apex as in G. arcuatus and G. trilineatus, and with a discoidal band 

 of the same colour as the sutural one, slightly connected behind with 

 the sutural, and emitting a short slender spur directed inwards at 

 about the median part ; legs black. Length 15 mm. ; width 8 mm. 



Very closely allied to G. arcuatus, but larger ; the dorsal bands on 

 the elytra are nearly alike, brown instead of black, and with the inner 

 spur of the discoidal band much shorter. I have seen one example 

 only of this species, which may prove to be a variety of G. arcuatus. 



Hah. Cape Colony (Worcester). 



