1896.] of the Colcojjtera of South Africa. 461 



Stenolophus elegans. 



Palpi, legs, the two basal joints of antennae flavescent, the other 

 joints infuscate, labrum reddish ; head black, shining, smooth ; 

 prothorax brick-red, a little rounded laterally, with the lateral sides 

 of the base depressed and aciculate ; elytra a little broader than the 

 prothorax, truncate at the base, elongato-ovate, narrowly striate with 

 the intervals plane, black, shining with a sutural yellowish red band 

 covering the first interval on each side and with a subdiagonal basal 

 band of the same colour extending from the humeral part of the 

 seventh interval to the fifth stria and reaching to about one-fifth of 

 the length of the elytra, edge of outer margins flavescent ; under side 

 light piceous ; prosternum yellowish red. Length 4^-5 mm. ; 

 width 2 mm. 



Hah. Natal (D'Urban, Tugela Eiver), Zambezia (Salisbury). 



It is worthy of note that the fourth joint of the anterior tarsi of 

 some males are more lobate in some specimens than in others, yet 

 the peculiar yellowish red markings being exactly alike in these 

 examples, preclude the possibility of there being more than one 

 species. 



Stenolophus quadeipustulatus, Dej. 

 Acupalpus qicadriptcstulatus , Spec. Col., iv., p. 477; Klug, Peters' 

 Eeise n. Mossamb., pi. 10, fig. 7. 



Oblongo- ovate ; head and prothorax brick-red ; prothorax sub- 

 transverse, punctate in the anterior and posterior part and sub- 

 foveolate on each side with the posterior angle obtuse ; elytra piceous 

 black, striate, with the outer margin, the suture and two patches 

 on each side, brick-red; legs and base of the antennae light testa- 

 ceous. 



I have not seen the species but from the excellent figure given by 

 Klug, loc. cit., it may be said to differ from S. elegans merely by 

 having four reddish patches on each elytron instead of two, and the 

 head is red instead of being black. Length 5 mm. ; width 2 mm. 



Hab. Mozambique (Tette), according to Klug. 



This species occurs in Senegal. 



Stenolophus promptus, Klug, 

 Monastb. Berl. Ac, 1853, p. 249 ; Peters' Eeise n. Mossamb., 



p. 172, pi. 10, fig 6. 



Shape, size, and colouring of S. elegans, the diagonal humeral 

 patch on the elytra is identical, but there is no sutural reddish 

 band. 



The diagnose of this species is made from the figure given by 

 Klug, loc. cit. 



