1896.] of the Coleoj^tera of South Africa. 319 



Graphipteeus BoNvouLomi, Chaud., 

 Bull. Mosc, 1870, p. 310. 



Covered with a yellow pubescence ; head with a narrow denuded 

 median line ; prothorax very broad ; elytra quadrate, with a broad 

 juxta-sutural black band on each side reaching neither base nor 

 apex, divided in the centre by a narrow line, of the colour of the back- 

 ground, and a narrow black line parallel to the first, connected with 

 it behind, but not reaching the base ; legs and antennae black. 

 Length 13 mm. ; width 5 mm. 



Hab. Mozambique and Lake N'Gami, teste Chaud. 



In one of the examples in De Chaudoir's collection the juxta- 

 sutural band is not divided in the centre by a narrow yellow line. 



Graphipterus Chaudoiri, P6r., 

 Trans. S. Afric. Phil. Soc, 1888, p. 77, pi. i., fig. 2. 



Covered with a yellow pubescence ; head with a narrow denuded 

 median line ; prothorax very broad ; elytra quadrate, with a broad 

 juxta-sutural black band reaching from a little below the base to 

 near the apex, and covering about two-fifths of the disk ; legs and 

 antennae black, but with the tibiae and two basal joints of antennae 

 sometimes rufescent. Length 9|— 12 mm. ; width 4^-5 mm. 



Hab. Natal (Frere, very small specimens) ; Transvaal (Pretoria, 

 Potchefstroom, Klerksdorp, Leydenburg). 



Graphipterus quadrilineatus, Brulle, 

 Silberm. Eev. ii., 1834, p. 112. 

 G. obsoletus, Dej., Spec. Col., vol. v., 1831, p. 463. 



Covered with a pale yellow or light grey pubescence ; head 

 narrowly denuded in the centre ; antennae totally black ; prothorax 

 broad, short ; elytra elongato-quadrate, with a black sutural band, 

 and three narrow discoidal ones on each side ; these black bands 

 reach from the base to the apex ; legs black. Length 12-14 mm. ; 

 width 4-1—5 mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Kowie, Stockenstroom, East London), Natal 

 (Frere). 



Graphipterus consocius. 



Size, colouring, and shape of G. quaclriliiieatus ; elytra with a 

 sutural black band, and two discoidal ones on each side instead of 

 three as in the preceding species ; legs and antenna black, with the 

 two basal joints of the latter slightly rufescent. Length 12 mm. ; 

 width 5 mm. 



Hab. Bechuanaland (Ramoutsa). 



