1896.] of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 479 



to past the median part, sinuated from the lateral post-median 

 angle to the posterior one with the outer margins much recurved, 

 and the median part of the base much produced behind, disk 

 plane, impressed laterally on each side of the posterior part, and 

 covered v^ith broad, deep, confluent punctures ; elytra broader than 

 the prothorax at the base, v^hich is subtruncate with the humeral 

 angles slightly rounded, elongated, one-fourth broader past the 

 middle than at the base, hardly convex, punctato-striate, with the 

 intervals convex and punctured, very briefly pubescent, and with a 

 supra-median yellow transverse patch consisting of an elongate spot 

 on the fifth, sixth, seventh, and eighth intervals, of about the same 

 length, but disconnected in the stria, and a supra-apical one con- 

 sisting of four similar patches situated on the same intervals, but 

 with the two outer ones shorter than the other two, and even with 

 the one on the eighth interval reduced occasionally to a mere dot ; 

 under side closely punctured, densely pubescent ; tarsi with a long, 

 brown pubescence beneath. Length 17-18 mm. ; width 6J-7 mm. 

 Hab. Zambezia (no exact locality). 



EuDEMA (Epicosmus), DIFFICILE, Chaud., 

 Monogr. Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg., 1878, p. 118. 



Shape and size of j&. ornatum, but the head is shorter and not so 

 narrow, the neck is also shorter ; the prothorax is short, one-third 

 broader than long, ampliated laterally from the apex to two-thirds 

 of the length, sinuated behind, median part of the base produced 

 behind ; shape of the elytra similar to those of E. ornatum, but more 

 parallel; the yellow patches are also similar. Length 16J mm.; 

 width 6f mm. 



Hah. Zambeze Eiver, teste De Chaud. 



EuDEMA (Epicosmus) Eikatlense. 

 Black, moderately shining, densely but briefly pubescent ; head 

 narrow, deeply and roughly punctured ; prothorax not broader than 

 the neck at the apex, gradually rounded from the anterior angle to 

 two-thirds of the length, with the posterior part subdiagonal and 

 slightly sinuate, median part of the base much produced behind, 

 disk plane, and covered with broad, deep, confluent punctures, 

 impressed laterally on each side behind, posterior outer sides raised ; 

 elytra elongated, subtruncate at the base which is one-third broader 

 than the prothorax, a little ampliated past the median part, very 

 little convex, narrowly punctato-striate with the intervals convex, 

 not much raised and irregularly punctured, very briefly pubescent, 

 and with two small, ante-median oblong yellow patches on each 



