1896.] of the Coleo2otera of South Africa. 455 



with a conspicuous puncture in the posterior part ; under side dark 

 piceous. Length 8f-9 mm. ; width 3 J mm. 

 Hah. Cape Colony (Cape Town, Worcester). 



Haepalomorphus rufipennis. 



Head and prothorax black, very shining ; antennae, palpi, tibiae, 

 and tarsi ruf escent ; elytra brick-red ; under side and femora piceous ; 

 head smooth, massive ; prothorax ampliate in the anterior part, 

 narrowed diagonally behind, not sinuate above the posterior angle 

 which is acute, smooth, basal impressions well defined ; elytra 

 oblong striate, with the intervals nearly smooth, broad and plane, 

 the puncture on the third one often obliterate or hardly distinct, the 

 outer margin is darker, somewhat infuscate ; in the female the elytra 

 are not as shining as in the male. Length 9 mm. ; width 3J-4: mm. 



Hah. Cape Colony (Cape Town, Malmesbury). 



Haepalomorphus ^neipennis. 



Very shining ; head and prothorax black, with a faint metallic 

 tinge ; antennae and palpi flavescent ; legs and tarsi dark red ; elytra 

 aeneous black or sometimes with a dark-green tinge ; head and pro- 

 thorax smooth and of the same shape as the two preceding species ; 

 elytra oblong, striate, with the intervals plane, third interval im- 

 punctate ; under side black, subaeneous. Female unknown. Length 

 11 mm. ; width 4|- mm. 



Hah. Cape Colony (Worcester). 



Harpalomorphus modestus. 



In shape, size, and sculpture very closely allied to H. (Bneipennis, 

 of which it might perhaps eventually prove to be the female ; the 

 prothorax is a little broader and the elytra more oblong and dull 

 black, and also impunctate on the third interval. Male unknown. 

 Length 12 mm. ; width 5 mm. 



Hah. Transvaal (Potchefstroom). 



Gen. DYOEICHE, MacLeay, 

 Annul, Javan., p. 21. 



Platymetopus, Dej. 



Mentum deeply emarginate, without any median tooth, lateral 

 lobes nearly perpendicular and very sharp ; ligula narrow ; para- 

 glossae very broadly dilated, singly rounded at the apex, and a little 

 longer than the ligula which they seem to surround entirely ; apical 

 joint of the labial palpi, and also the preceding, thickly setose ; head 



