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prothorax short, the basal part broad, and the outer posterior angles 

 nearly blunt, deep cinnamon in the centre with the outer sides 

 whitish grey, edges not serrulate ; elytra a little longer than broad, 

 covered with a mouse-grey pubescence, forming some distinct striae, 

 and whitening slightly on the outer margins ; legs black, with the 

 tibiae often rufescent. Length 10-13 mm. ; width 5-7 mm. 

 Hah. Mozambique (Louren^o-Marquez, Eikatla). 



Graphipteeus basalis. 



Head covered with a fulvous pubescence, but denuded in the 

 centre ; the three first joints of the antennae reddish ; prothorax 

 short, the basal part broad, covered with dense fulvous hairs turning 

 to white along the outer margins ; elytra elongato-quadrate, sub- 

 striate, covered with a short black pubescence, which in the basal 

 part is replaced by fulvous hairs, of the colour of those on the pro- 

 thorax, and forming a transverse patch, outer margin with a mode- 

 rately broad band of white ; abdomen piceous ; legs reddish. 

 Length 14f mm. ; width 6f mm. 



Hah. Mozambique (Antioka). 



Allied to G. canescens ; but the size is larger, the striation of the 

 elytra is deeper, and the fulvous basal transverse patch is suffi- 

 cient to distinguish this species. 



Graphipterus incanus, Dej., 

 Spec. Col., v., p. 464. 



Densely covered w^ith a brownish grey pubescence ; head narrowly 

 denuded in the centre ; the two basal joints of antennae rufescent ; 

 elytra less broad than long, covered with a greyish brown pubescence, 

 with six lighter brown, not well defined, narrow lines on each side ; 

 legs black. Length 10-12 mm. ; width 4-5 mm. 



Hah. Natal (D' Urban). 



Graphipteeus maceocephalus, Bohem., 

 Insect. Caffr., i., p. 91. 



Very closely allied to G. incanus ; the pubescence is more greyish, 

 the prothorax is slightly shorter and broader ; the elytra are hardly 

 longer than broad, and have little or no trace of striae or white 

 lines. Length 9-12 mm. ; width 4-5 mm. 



Hah. Natal (Newcastle, Frere), Transvaal (Pretoria, Klerksdorp, 

 Potchefstroom, Barberton), Orange Free State (Parys). 



Both this species, and the preceding ones are very closely allied ; 

 the paler lines on the elytra are more or less discernible in both, 

 although always less pronounced in G. macroceplialus, but the most 

 distinctive feature of this species is the form of the elytra, which are 

 broader in proportion to the length, with the humeral angles very 

 slightly rounded only, thus giving them a more quadrate shape. 



