1896.] of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 329 



yellow ; the elytra are yellow all round ; this border is very wide, 

 and surrounds a large black patch divided in two by a narrow 

 sutural band of the same colour as the border ; this patch is besides 

 notched outwardly in the anterior part, and obliquely sinuate 

 behind. Length 13-13f mm. 

 Hah. Zululand, teste Chaud. 



Gen. PIEZIA, Brulle, 

 Hist. Nat. Ins., iv., 1834, p. 272. 



• Mentum broadly and deeply notched, with the lateral sides nearly 

 perpendicular, and the base produced in the centre in a moderately 

 short broad tooth slightly incised in the middle, the ligula as long 

 as the paraglossse which surround it and are truncate at the tip ; 

 palpi and head of Graphipterus ; antennae compressed, with the 

 four ultimate joints almost subfoliate ; prothorax cordiform ; elytra 

 not broader at the base than the posterior part of the prothorax, 

 elongato- ovate, truncated diagonally behind, with the anal segment 

 projecting ; legs long ; tibiae grooved inwardly ; claws not pectinate, 

 the three basal joints of the anterior tarsi of the male dilated, and 

 with two rows of lamellae under each ; head and prothorax roughly 

 punctured or very rugose ; elytra rugose ; pectus and under side of 

 prothorax covered with moderately dense white hairs. 



Synopsis of Species. 



Prothorax long, slender. 



Elytra quadri-costate on each side, first three intervals with a 

 fulvous pubescence, a whiter round spot a little below the base, 

 another below it, and a third one parallel with the second, but on 

 the third interval SpinolcB. 



Elytra six-costate, intervals without a fulvous pubescence, 

 except a short basal band on the first interval, the three fulvous 

 spots shaped as in Spinolce, but on the third and fifth intervals 

 respectively algoensis. 



Prothorax short, cordiform. 



Elytra with a basal patch on each side and a sutural one at the 

 apex ; basal white band short, one white dot on the fourth costa, 

 and another in the fifth interval ; prothorax broad, cordiform ; 

 elytra ampliated axillaris. 



Prothorax subelongated ; elytra ovate angusticoUis. 



Basal white band short, only one white spot on the third costa Mnitzechi. 



Basal white band reaching nearly the median part of the elytra, 

 a small spot in the fifth interval Ovampoensis. 



Elytra with a basal band on each side, but without any apical 

 patch. 



Basal band short, fulvous, one dot in the third costa and one 

 i:i the fifth interval sulcipennis. 



A basal, short, fulvous band without any dots aptinoides. 



Elytra with a juxta-sutural white or yellow band a:id an apical 

 patch. 



