438 Descriptive Catalogue [1896. 



Hypolithus scitus. 



Metallic green, moderately shining ; palpi, antennae, and legs 

 flavescent, elytra with a lateral posterior sinuate yellow patch ; 

 head punctulate ; prothorax with the usual shape and sculpture, 

 and with a flavescent lateral margin broadening from the median 

 part to the base ; elytra oblong, striate, the intervals not exactly 

 shagreened but with two or three series of rough punctures, the 

 third one has a row of equidistant deep punctures close to one 

 another, and the fifth has also a row of punctures more distant from 

 one another ; the colour is brighter green than on the prothorax, 

 and in the posterior part there is on each side a more or less deep 

 yellow sinuate patch extending from the fourth stria to the outer 

 margin, and produced along the margin to the apex, where it 

 ascends along the suture to abreast of the lower part of the patch ; 

 under side piceous. Length 7 mm. ; width 3 mm. _ 



Hab. Mozambique (Lourengo-Marquez). 



Gen. AXINOTOMA, Dej., 

 Spec. Col., v., p. 29. 



Mentum with a median tooth rounded at tip and not so long as 

 the lateral lobes {A. obtuseangida), or without any median tooth at 

 all (A. posticalis) ; ligula extremely narrow, paraglossse three times 

 as broad as the ligula and disconnected from it near the tip ; 

 mandibles, labrum, and antennae as in Hypolithus; head very 

 short ; prothorax nearly twice as broad as long, rounded laterally 

 in the anterior part which is broader than the basal part, the 

 sides of which are straight and the angles sharp, not rounded ; 

 elytra aciculate as in Hypolithus but with only one puncture in 

 the posterior part of the third interval ; anterior tarsi of the male 

 dilated, the four joints cordiform, the fourth deeply incised, and 

 all clothed underneath with two series of diagonal squamulae, joints 

 of intermediate tarsi not dilated, cylindrical. 



The distinctive characters between Axinotoma and Hypolithus 

 consists in the cylindrical shape of the joints of the tarsi of the 

 intermediate pair of legs in Axinotoma ; the elytra are also aciculate 

 as in Hypolithus, but there is only one puncture in the third 

 interval, instead of a series. 



The genus is represented in Senegal and Abyssinia. 



Synopsis of Species. 

 Prothorax with a narrow rufescent lateral band ; elytra black ohtuseangula. 

 Prothorax broadly flavescent laterally ; elytra with a sutural 

 apical triangular yellow patch posticalis. 



