1896.] of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 523 



inwards ; prothorax cordiform, with the lateral part of the base 

 slightly excised below the outer angle, which is very sharp ; elytra 

 elongato-ovate, striate, dark, with yellowish patches or bands ; legs 

 moderately long, slender, the three basal joints of the male broadly 

 dilated and spongy underneath. 



De Chaudoir has widely separated this genus from the ChlcBnides, 

 and certainly the shape of the ligula and paraglossse is very different 

 from that of ChlcBnius or other allied genera, but the head has 

 only one supra-orbital posterior seta, as in Chlce.nius ; the dilatation 

 of the three anterior tarsi, which are also spongy in the male, is 

 identical, and the mode of life is the same. 



The genus is represented in Senegal, India, and Southern China. 



Synopsis of Species. 



Head dark blue or metallic green. 



The transverse yellow patches on the elytra not connected 

 with the outer margin. 



Elytra with an anterior and posterior patch on each side ; 

 basal joints of antennae black . . . . quadripustitlahcs. 



Elytra with an anterior and posterior patch, and a median 

 and apical juxta-sutural spots on each side ; the two basal 

 joints of antennae flavescent amoenus. 



Anterior lateral band on the elytra connected with the i 



outer margin ; the three basal joints of antennae flavescent. 'i 



Base of prothorax deeply incised below the posterior angle ; i 



elytra with a rounded sutural patch at the apex, besides the | 



two lateral ones scxpustulatus. S 



Anterior lateral patch connected along the margin with the | 



humeral angle, posterior one small, an apical sutural patch. . elcgans. I 



Anterior lateral patch much more sinuate than the pos- I 



terior one, and both connected with the suture, each elytron I 



has besides a post-median juxta-sutural dot and a small apical f 



sutural patch c(^(ff(^i'- I 



Outer margin of the elytra narrowly flavescent, anterior IS 



lateral margin hardly sinuate, juxta-sutural dot wanting, or f 



nearly so, postical patch hardly noticeable gratus. 



Head and prothorax red. 



Elytra with nine small yellowish dots on each side . . . . insuctus. 



Elytra with one juxta-sutural post-median spot, a lateral 

 sinuate band reaching from near the suture to the outer 

 margin, and two dots on the posterior part of the third 

 interval guttatus. 



Callistomimus quadripustulatus. Gory, 

 Ann. Soc. Ent. France, 1833, p. 215. 



Head very dark blue, almost black, closely punctulate ; labrum 

 and clypeus smooth, black ; all the joints of the antennae, the tarsi 



