328 Descrijytive Catalogue [1896. 



Graphipteeus albolineatus, Wallengr., 



PL viii., fig. 3. 



Ent. Tidsk., ii., 1881, p. 12. 



PlEZIA ALBOSIGNATA, Per., 



Trans. S. Afric. Phil. Soc, 1885, p. 77, pi. i., fig. 1. 



Covered with a black very short pubescence ; head with two 

 yellowish white bands ; prothorax broader than the head, with the 

 outer sides not sinuated, outer margins with a moderately broad 

 white band ; elytra broad, quadrate, with the anterior angles a little 

 rounded, each one with a narrow white marginal band, and four 

 discoidal ones on each side, beginning at the base and reaching 

 to a little past the median part, also a subquadrate sometimes 

 elongated patch of the same colour in the centre of the apical 

 margin ; antennae and legs black. Length 14-18 mm. ; width 

 7-9 mm. 



In one of my examples the dorsal white bands on the elytra are 

 interrupted irregularly ; in another from the Upper Limpopo the 

 bones are pale yellow instead of white. 



Hab. Transvaal (Potchefstroom), Zambezia (Fort Tuli). 



Of the hitherto described species of Graijliipterus there are two 

 only which I have not yet been able to identify. One is G. adspec- 

 tabilis, Wallengr., which from the description might prove to be 

 identical with G. Westwoodi, var. discoidalis ; and the other G. 

 discoidetis, Chaud., which might also prove to be identical with G. 

 clegantidus. 



Graphipterus adspectabilis, Wallengr., 

 Entom. Tidsk., vol. ii., p. 12. 



Black, the two basal joints of antennae ferruginous red ; head 

 broad, with an ochraceous pubescent longitudinal band on each 

 side ; prothorax thickly pubescent, with a median longitudinal black 

 band ; elytra black, with an uninterrupted ochraceous pubescent 

 marginal band narrowed in the angle of the posterior part, and a 

 somewhat small cordiform one extending on each side of the suture 

 and merging into the marginal band ; legs black ; coxge, trochanters, 

 and abdomen ferruginous. Length 15 mm. 



Hah. Transvaal (Potchefstroom). 



Graphipterus discoideus, Chaud., 

 Bull. Mosc, 1870, p. 327. 



The facies is that of G. plagiatus, but it diti^rs, owing to the 

 ochraceous-yellow colour of the pubescence which forms the design ; 

 the prothorax has the same median black band with the sides 



