1896.] of the Coleoj^tera of South Africa. 463 



Head black, prothorax red, suture and sides of elytra pale red, 

 dorsal part black, iridescent capicola. 



Black on the upper part with the suture and lateral margins 

 reddish egenus. 



Totally black on the upper part insidiosus. 



Totally ferruginous, elytra iridescent umbripennis. 



Totally flavous, intermediate joints of antennae fuscous . , . . pallidus. 



Posterior angles of prothorax not blunt, outer posterior margins 

 recurved, upper part piceous, iridescent, apical part of elytra 

 flavescent terminalis. 



Prothorax much rounded laterally behind, posterior impres- 

 sion very slight, posterior margin not recurved, upper part sub- 

 seneous ; prothorax and elytra with a narrow marginal reddish 

 band, suture distinctly rufescent nataliciis. 



Basal part of prothorax deeply punctured. 



Piceous black ; prothorax and elytra with a narrow flavescent 

 margin, the latter with a small subhumeral yellowish patch, 

 suture narrowly flavescent decoratus. 



Upper side piceous ; elytra with a discoidal longitudinal band 

 reaching from base to apex elegantulus. 



Upper side piceous ; elytra with the suture and a broad dorsal 

 band flavescent plagifer. 



Prothorax red ; head and elytra black, the latter with the 

 flavescent suture and a discoidal longitudinal band very broad at 

 the base and narrowing towards the apex vittiger. 



Fuscous ; elytra tessellate with flavescent and piceous patches tessellatus. 



AcuPALPUs GRACILIS, Bohem., 

 Insect. Caffr., i., p. 225. 



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

 joints fuscous ; head and prothorax brick-red, very shining, the 

 latter with a moderately deep lateral depression on each side of the 

 base ; elytra a little more parallel than in the two preceding species, 

 striate, with the intervals slightly convex, dark red, with a black 

 iridescent patch extending on each side from the first to the fifth 

 stria, and reaching from a short distance from the base to nearly the 

 apex ; under side flavescent, abdomen slightly infuscate. Length 

 4 mm. ; width 1^ mm. 



Hab. Zambezia (Salisbury), Mozambique (Rikatla). 



AcUPALPUS CAPICOLA. 



Allied to the preceding species but with the elytra a little shorter ; 

 intermediate joints of antennae fuscous ; head black ; prothorax red, 

 sometimes dark red ; 'elytra with a broad, dorsal, slightly iridescent 

 band, extending from base to apex and reaching on each side from 

 the first stria to the outer margin which is reddish, likewise the suture; 

 palpi, legs, and the two basal joints of antennae flavescent. Length 

 3-3|- mm. ; width 1^-1^ mm. 



