1896.] of tJie Coleoptera of South Africa. 327 



broader than the head, and with a narrow lateral white margin ; 

 elytra elongato-ovate, Avith a narrow white or yellow marginal 

 border and a discoidal band of the size of the border and of the 

 same colour; legs black. Length 13-14 mm. ; width 5-6 mm. 

 Hah. Ovampoland. 



Geaphipterus Saline, Bertol., 



Nov. Comm. Ac. Bonon., x., 1849, p. 408, pi. 9, fig. 1. 



G. tristis, Klug, Peters' Eeise, n. Mozamb., p. 149, pi. 12, fig. 1. 



Covered with a black very short pubescence ; head with two 

 yellowish bands ; antennae black ; prothorax a little broader than 

 the head, with a median yellow band and a marginal one on each 

 side ; elytra elongato-ovate, with a discoidal yellowish band reaching 

 on each side from the base to two-thirds of the length, and connected 

 behind with a transverse narrow band which does not reach the 

 outer sides, which are also narrowly marginated with yellow ; legs 

 black, pygidium with two yellow patches. Length 14 mm. ; width 

 6 mm. 



Hab. Zambeze Eiver. 



Geaphipterus Antiokanus. 



Covered with a black very short pubescence ; head with two 

 yellowish bands ; antennae black ; prothorax not very pubescent, 

 closely punctured, a little broader than the head, with a median 

 yellow band and a marginal one on each side ; elytra ovate, faintly 

 striate, covered with a dense black pubescence having a yellow 

 outer margin, and on each side a yellow discoidal longitudinal line 

 reaching from the base to about one-third of the length, with three 

 basal and very short and narrower lines parallel with the first and 

 a little below these, but in line with the first, a diagonal, elongato- 

 quadrate patch directed towards the outer margin, but not connected 

 with it ; pygidium with two yellow patches ; legs black. 



Shape of G. SalincB, but the discoidal band of the former is much 

 longer and unites with the transverse band, which is not broader 

 than the longitudinal one, while in G. AntiocJianus not only is that 

 longitudinal band shorter, but there are three more, very narrow but 

 parallel, and the diagonal line of G. Salinm is replaced by a sub- 

 quadrate patch more than twice as broad. Length 13-14 mm. ; 

 width 5-6 mm. 



Hab. Mozambique (Antioka), Zambezia (Umfuli Eiver). 



