322 DescriiAive Catalogue [1896. 



the dorsal yellow anterior black band has coalesced on each side 

 with the sutural band, but whereas this coalition assumes a quadrate 

 shape in Westivoodi, it is more rounded diagonally in G. egregiiis, 

 and the posterior part of the projecting black suture is much broader 

 than in the anterior part. 



This species seems to take the place of Westiooocli in the north- 

 east part of South Africa. The examples from Matabeleland have a 

 red-ochre pubescence. 



Geaphipteeus egeessus. 



Size and shape of G. Westiooocli ; head and prothorax with the 

 same median denudation or black band, but the yellow pubescence 

 is more ochraceous ; the elytra, a little less ampliated behind, have a 

 short sutural broad black band merging into a transverse patch one- 

 fourth the width of the elytra, and the hind edge of which hardly 

 reaches the median part, continues from there for a short distance 

 and connects with a subtriangular patch, very broad, nearly perpen- 

 dicular, reaching as far as the third part of the length, extending a 

 little nearer the outer margin than the anterior transverse band and 

 enclosing at the apex a moderately broad triangular patch of the 

 yellow background ; legs and antennae black. 



G. egressus is differentiated from G. Westiooocli by the shape of 

 the transverse anterior black patch, narrower by one-half than the 

 dorsal patch of the latter, and with the edges nearly parallel ; the 

 posterior patch is more perpendicular, one-third broader, and ascends 

 much higher. Length 18 mm. ; width 8 mm. 



Hah. Transvaal (Leydenburg) . 



Geaphipteeus fasciatus, Chaud., 

 Bull. Mosc, 1870, p. 323. 



Covered with a yellowish grey pubescence ; head broadly denuded 

 in the posterior part ; the two basal joints of antennae reddish ; pro- 

 thorax with a broad median black band ; elytra one-fourth broader 

 at the apex than at the base, with a quadrate black patch extending 

 from very close to the base to about the median part, leaving only a 

 narrow marginal and basal band of the yellowish background, and 

 with a posterior black patch not quite as broad as the anterior one, 

 connected with it by a short but broad sutural band, and enclosing a 

 triangular or quadrate yellowish patch on the apex of the suture ; 

 legs black ; tibiae faintly rufescent. Length 13 mm. ; width 6 mm. 



Hah. Transvaal (Leydenburg), Mozambique (Lebombo). 



Geaphipteeus Feitschi, Chaud., 

 Coleopt. Novitat., 1883, p. 25. 



Covered with a yellow pubescence ; head with a narrow denuded 

 band ; prothorax also with a narrow black band, the discoidal part 



