1896.] of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 321 



the apex than at the base, with a broad black patch, covering two- 

 thirds of the disk on each side, reaching from near the base to about 

 the median part, more or less quadrate in the posterior edge, aculeate 

 on each side in the anterior part, with the sutural band protruding 

 in front and behind, and connected past the middle by a narrow 

 slightly diagonal black line, with a very broad supra-marginal apical 

 black band, covering more or less the posterior part, but not broader 

 than the discoidal patch, and leaving under the apical part of the 

 black sutural band a more or less fleur-de-lis-like shaped patch of 

 the yellow background ; legs black. Length 14-20 mm ; width 

 6-9 mm. 



Hab. Orange Free State (Cronstad, Parys), Transvaal (Pretoria, 

 Potchefstroom, Klerksdorp, Zoutpansberg, Marico). 



Yar. discoid alis. 



Shape, colour, and size of G. Westivoodi, but in the elytra the 

 dorsal black patch, still slightly aculeate on each side of the anterior 

 part, and with the basal part of the black sutural band as in West- 

 ivoodi, has invaded the whole of the dorsal part and coalesces with 

 the transverse supra-marginal apical band, still slightly projecting 

 beyond the quadrate dorsal patch ; through the diffusion and exten- 

 sion of the black dorsal patch, there is only an indented basal and 

 a narrower lateral band of yellow pubescence and a small triangular 

 sutural patch of the same colour left. Length 18 mm. ; width 8 mm. 



Hab. Transvaal (Pretoria, Potchefstroom). 



Graphipterus egregius. Per., 



Plate IV., fig. 3. 



Trans. S. Afric. Phil. Soc, 1892, p. 99. 



Covered with an ochre-yellow pubescence, sometimes deeper 

 yellow on the prothorax and anterior part of the elytra ; head 

 broadly denuded in the posterior part ; three basal joints of antennae 

 sometimes rufescent ; prothorax with a narrow black median band ; 

 elytra about one-fourth broader at the apex than at the base, with 

 a dorsal black patch in the shape of a broad crescent, with the 

 points directed towards the base and extending on each side to a 

 little past the median part ; the anterior part of the suture is some- 

 what aculeate at the base, and the posterior median part of the 

 crescent- shaped dorsal patch is produced into a short but broad 

 sutural band connected with a transverse supra-marginal apical 

 black patch of the same shape and width as in G. ancora; legs 

 black. Length 16-19 mm. ; wirlth 7-9 mm. 



Hab. Transvaal (Rustenburg), Zambezia (Buluwayo, Salisbury). 



In this as well as in G. Wcstwoodi and its variety G. discoidalis,. 



