1896.] of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 469 



antennae, palpi, and legs flavescent ; head smooth ; prothorax slightly- 

 attenuate behind with the posterior angles slightly acute ; elytra 

 elongate, subparallel, striate, black with a faint metallic tinge and 

 with a broad diagonal subhumeral yellow patch and a posterior oval 

 one very nearly coalescing a little beyond the median part of the 

 disk ; under side piceous. Length 3 mm. ; width l-i- mm. 



Hab. Natal (Frere, Maritzburg) , Bechuanaland (Vryburg) , Damara- 

 land (Kookarrah). 



Amblystomus scitus. 



Intermediate in size between A. vittipennis and A. ornatipennis ; 

 the colour is very dark green, and the legs and the two basal joints 

 of antennae are flavescent ; the elytra have a subhumeral narrow 

 oblique yellow band and a posterior one hardly extending beyond 

 the fourth interval ; these two bands are not connected by a longi- 

 tudinal dorsal one. Length 4-4 J mm. ; width 2 mm. 



Hah. Natal (Escourt). 



Amblystomus amabilis, Bohem. 

 Acupalptcs amabilis, Insect. Caffr., i., p. 222. 



Head and prothorax black, shining ; antennae, palpi, and legs 

 flavescent ; prothorax much rounded laterally, attenuate behind with 

 the posterior angles obtuse ; elytra testaceous yellow with a sutural 

 median black patch, narrowed in the anterior part, dilated and bifid 

 behind, and reaching neither base nor apex, dorsal part striate, sides 

 smooth ; under side fuscous black. Length 5 mm. ; width 2 mm. 



Hab. Transvaal (Pretoria). 



Amblystomus basalis. 



Head and prothorax black, shining ; labrum, antennae, palpi, and 

 legs flavescent ; head smooth ; prothorax much rounded laterally 

 from about one-third of the length to the posterior part, which is 

 not angular, smooth all over ; elytra elongate, slightly striate in the 

 dorsal part with the striae almost evanescent laterally, flavescent 

 from the base to about one-third of the length, and fuscous black 

 from there to the apex ; under side piceous. Length 4 mm. ; width 

 IJ- mrn. 



Hab. Zambezia (Salisbury). 



Teibe GEOB^NIDES. 



Mentum notched, median part with a very minute tooth ; para- 

 glossae slightly excised from the tip of the ligula, a little longer, and 

 curving inwardly ; head with two supra-orbital setae ; elytra oblongo- 

 ovate, striate, third stria with three punctures, the two anterior ones 



