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is seldom projecting much, but tlie posterior angle is always 

 rounded, thus differentiating G. cordiger from G. hamatus. 



Var. transfugus. 



Similar in shape, size, and colouring to G. cordiger; the pubes- 

 cence, however, is more greyish ; the black patch on the elytra 

 instead of being bluntly cordiform is quite quadrate, smaller than in 

 G. hamatus, and emits behind a very short, aculeate, sutural spur. 

 Length 11 mm. ; width 6 mm. 



Hah. Transvaal (Zoutpansberg). 



Graphipteeus Wahlbergi, Bohem., 

 Insect. Caffr., i., p. 80. 



Size and shape of G. cordiger ; the pubescence more reddish either 

 on the head, prothorax, and basal part of elytra, or on the whole of 

 the surface ; head broadly denuded in the centre ; the three basal 

 joints of antennae reddish, occasionally nearly black ; prothorax with 

 a median black band narrower than in G. cordiger ; elytra with a 

 subquadrate post-median black patch, longer than broad, seldom 

 cordiform, produced behind along the suture in a short point which 

 does not reach the apex and connected with the base by a moderately 

 broad sutural band. 



Mostly distinguished from G. cordiger by the position and shape of 

 the dorsal patch, which is more quadrate, narrower, placed further 

 down, and the posterior sutural projection does not reach the apex ; 

 legs black. Length 14-15 mm. ; width 7-7^ mm. 



Hah. Transvaal (Potchefstroom, Leydenburg, Marico, Middel- 

 burg. Middle Limpopo), Zambezia (Salisbury, Buluwayo). 



The pubescence in the examples from Salisbury is fulvous. 



Graphipterus hamatus, Bohem., 

 Insect. Caffr., i., p. 81. 



Colour, size, and shape of G. cordiger ; differs from it merely in 

 the shape of the dorsal black patch on the elytra, which is much 

 broader, more quadrate, not curving outwards as in G. cordiger, invad- 

 ing often nearly the whole of the disk, but with the anterior angles 

 projecting in front. and occasionally behind. The discoidal patch is 

 broadest in my examples from Potchefstroom and Bocksburg, and in 

 those from D'Urban, Natal, the anterior edge of the patch is some- 

 times straight, but the projection in the posterior angle is nearly 

 always noticeable. Length 13-15 mm. ; width 6-|-7 mm. 



Hah. Cape Colony (Kimberley), Transvaal (Potchefstroom, Bocks- 

 burg), Natal (D'Urban, Malvern, Newcastle). 



