456 Descriptive Catalogue [1896. 



short, thick ; prothorax a httle attenuate behind, posterior angles 

 sharp ; elytra elongate, parallel, striate, with the intervals plane, 

 closely punctured or shagreened ; anterior and median tarsi of the 

 male dilated, subcordiform, fourth one very slightly incised. 



The affinities of this genus are more with Amhlystomus than with 

 HypolitJms and Harpalus, although the sculpture of the elytra is 

 somewhat similar to that of Hypolithus ; but the shape of the ligula 

 and paraglossae is the same as in Amhlystomus. 



Synopsis of Species. 



Elytra dark brown, with a pale yellow band running on the seventh 

 and eighth intervals from the base to the posterior declivity . . . . figiirata. 

 Elytra totally black, densely pubescent vidua. 



Dyoeiche figurata, Bohem., 

 Insect. Caffr., i., p. 190. 



Head and prothorax piceous, with a brassy tinge, very deeply and 

 closely punctured and pubescent ; the palpi, legs, and the three basal 

 joints of antennae flavescent, the others infuscate ; prothorax with 

 a very narrow flavescent margin, rounded in the anterior part, a 

 little attenuate behind, with the posterior angle well defined ; elytra 

 very parallel, deeply punctato-striate, intervals plane and closely 

 aciculate, light bronze, with a yellowish sublateral band running on 

 the sixth interval from the base to the declivity, invading the seventh 

 near the base and also the apex as well as the apical part of the 

 other inner intervals ; under side piceous or deep ferruginous. Length 

 Q-^^ mm. ; width 2-2 J mm. 



Hah. Cape Colony (Kimberley, Hope Town). 



Dyoeiche vidua. 



Bronze black, densely pubescent on the upper part ; palpi, 

 antennae with the exception of the two basal joints which are 

 flavescent, femora and tarsi black, tibiae flavescent ; head and 

 prothorax deeply and closely punctured, the punctures broader and 

 deeper along the base ; elytra parallel, striate, intervals quite plane 

 and finely shagreened ; under side black, shining. Length 6^ mm. ; 

 width 2^ mm. 



Hah. Natal (D'Urban). 



Very closely allied to D. vestita, from Senegal and the Gold Coast, 

 but the intervals of the elytra are quite plane, instead of being 

 subconvex, and the elytra are almost black. 



Klug has described a third species from Mozaniliique wliich I have 

 not seen. 



