520 Descriptive Catalogue [1896. 



Gen. ZELOTICUS, Per., 

 Trans. S. Afric. Phil. Soc, 1872, vi., p. 17. 



Ligula horny, disconnected from the paraglossse at a short distance 

 from the tip, truncate at the tip, very slightly sloping towards the outer 

 angles, and with two long setee at equal distance from the outer angle 

 and the median part ; detached part of the paraglossae linear and not 

 longer than the outer angle of the ligula ; mentum deep with the 

 inner lobes nearly perpendicular and the outer very little ampliated, 

 median part with a triangular tooth deeply incised at the tip, last 

 joint of maxillary and labial palpi short, securiform ; labrum truncate 

 with six setigerous punctures, the two middle ones very close to each 

 other; Jaws of Ghlcenius, head with a seta on each side of the basal 

 part of the epistome and one over the posterior part of the eye ; eyes 

 elongated not very prominent ; antennae moderately thick and with 

 the exception of the four basal joints somewhat compressed ; prothorax 

 very long, almost subcylindrical ; elytra elongato-ovate ; the proster- 

 num produced behind between the coxae, but the cavity for the 

 reception in the metasternum of the subaculeate process of the 

 prosternum very shallow ; legs of Chlceiiius, the three basal joints of 

 the anterior tarsi of the male extremely broad and thickly spongy 

 underneath. 



Zeloticus tristis, Per., 



Plate IX., fig. 10. 



Trans. S. Afric. Phil. Soc, 1892, vol. vi., p. 17. 



Black, with the head and prothorax hairless, the last joint of the 

 maxillary and labial palpi reddish brown at the tip ; head long, the 

 eyes being elongated and not very prominent, impart a parallel 

 appearance ; prothorax elongated, hardly broader than the head at the 

 apex and the elytra at the base, with the outer sides only one-fourth 

 broader at its widest than the base, deeply and broadly punctured 

 with the punctures nearly confluent ; elytra very little broader at the 

 base than the prothorax with the outer angles sloping, elongato-ovate, 

 nearly twice as broad past the median part as the base, somewhat con- 

 vex, deeply punctato-striate with the intervals raised, deeply punctured, 

 briefly pubescent, black, not much shining, with a dirty white band 

 running on each side on the eighth interval from the base to the 

 median part and a supra-apical elongated irregular patch of the same 

 colour situated between the fourth and seventh intervals ; legs black, 

 under side iridescent. Length 16 mm. ; width 6 mm. 



Hab. Ovampoland (Cunene Eiver). 



