1896.] of the Coleojotera of South Africa. 437 



labrum, legs and the two basal joints of antennas flavescent, the 

 other joints with an infuscate line on the upper part ; head smooth ; 

 prothorax smooth or very faintly aciculate laterally in the anterior 

 part, the aciculation deeper and much more conspicuous along the 

 base and still more so in the lateral posterior depressions, outer 

 margins with a moderately broad flavescent edge ; elytra elongate, 

 subparallel, intervals very narrowly punctato-striate, closely and 

 deeply aciculate, third interval only with a series of spaced punctures ; 

 under side piceous, iridescent. Length 6f-8 mm. ; width 3 mm. 



Hah. Cape Colony (Umzimkulu), Natal (Frere), Transvaal (Pot- 

 chef stroom), Zambezia (Salisbury). 



Hypolithus melancholicus, Bohem., 

 Insect. Caffr., i., p. 201. 



Black, with a faint iridescence on the upper part ; palpi, labrum, 

 legs, and the whole of the antennae flavescent; head smooth, prothorax 

 aciculate in the lateral posterior depressions and along the base, 

 outer margin narrowly flavescent ; elytra elongate, subparallel, 

 narrowly striate ; intervals very faintly aciculate, third interval 

 with a well-defined series of spaced punctures, and the fifth one 

 also with a series of punctures, less well defined, however, than 

 those on the third interval. Length 6-7 mm. ; width 2^2-| mm. 



Closely allied to the preceding species, but the sculpture of the 

 intervals of the elytra is different, and there are two series of punctures 

 instead of one as in H. difficilis. 



Hah. Cape Colony (Hope Town), Natal (D'Urban), Zambezia 

 (Salisbury). 



One of my examples from Salisbury is not iridescent. 



Hypolithus ornatus. Per., 

 Trans. S. Afric. Phil. Soc, 1892, p. 21. 



Black, with a faint greenish tinge on the upper side ; palpi, legs 

 and the two basal joints of antennae flavescent, the other joints and 

 the labrum ferruginous ;' head smooth ; prothorax smooth, very 

 slightly aciculate in the posterior lateral depressions and along the 

 base, outer margins narrowly edged with light ferruginous in the 

 anterior part, the ferruginous edge broadening in the posterior part ; 

 elytra elongate, subparallel, striate, intervals plane, faintly aciculate, 

 third interval with a conspicuous series of spaced punctures, sub- 

 opaque and with a sutural, posterior yellowish-red macula extending 

 on each side as far as the third stria, and reaching from the posterior 

 declivity to the apex ; under side light piceous. Length 12 mm. ; 

 width 4|- mm. 



Hah. Ovampoland. 



