338 Descrijytive Catalogue [1896. 



part, as long as the head, but half the width, moderately convex, 

 with a very broad median longitudinal depression filled with a very 

 short scattered greyish pubescence ; elytra elongato-ovate, plane, 

 truncated diagonally behind with the outer angle rounded and the 

 apical part of the suture slightly notched, each one with three very 

 sharp costse reaching from base to apex, with the inner and outer 

 one joining under the median one, intervals with a series of small 

 granules and a fine line of greyish hairs, forming a denser sutural 

 band reaching from the base to one-fourth of the length, and an 

 apical denser and broader patch very often rubbed off. Length 

 10-13 mm. ; width 3-4 mm. 



Hab. Transvaal (Potchef stroom, Leydenburg) , Zambezia (Manica) . 



Gen. ECCOPTOPTERA, Chaud., 

 Rev. ZooL, 1878, p. 189. 



Buccal organs and palpi of Polyhivma, but the ligula is a little 

 longer ; the prothorax is swollen more or less in the median part 

 and very convex ; the elytra are also very convex, with the posterior 

 margins broadly sinuate between the outer angles and the suture. 



One of the two species included in this genus {E. cupricollis) is 

 found also on the Zanzibar mainland. 



Syno2)sis of SiJecies. 



Head and prothorax glowing metallic red cupricollis. 



Prothorax black mutilloicles. 



EcCOPTOPTERA CUPRICOLLIS, Cliaud., 



Plate IV., fig. 5. 

 Rev. ZooL, 1878, p. 190. 



Head scrobiculate, impressed laterally on each side, densely 

 covered with long hairs, black, with a glowing red tinge ; the four 

 basal joints of antennae with a greyish pubescence ; prothorax glow- 

 ing red, elongate, swollen in the middle, convex, deeply scrobiculate, 

 with a median, ill-defined longitudinal groove, and covered with 

 moderately dense greyish brown erect hairs ; elytra elongato-ovate, 

 very convex, the posterior margin with a deep sinuation between 

 the outer angle and the suture, eight sharp, closely set costae on each 

 side, reaching from the base to a very short distance from the apex, 

 intervals with a deep broad series of punctures ; black, shining, 

 with moderately dense grey hairs round the base, and a few scattered 

 longer ones on the disk, denser on the outer margins, which, as well 

 as the posterior one, have a bronze metallic tinge, there is besides 

 a submedian transverse white hair}^ band or pat-ch reaching from 

 the third to the seventh costa on each side, and a broader supra- 



