1896.] of tlic Coleoptera of South Africa. 525 



Callistomimus elegans, Bohem., 

 Insect. Caffr., i., p. 127. 



Head very dark blue, closely punctured ; clypeus, labrum, palpi, 

 legs, and the three basal joints of antennae reddish, the other joints 

 of the antennae black ; prothorax cordiform, brick-red, closely punc- 

 tured and very briefly pubescent ; elytra elongato-ovate, striate, 

 with the intervals plane and shagreened, black, with a marginal 

 yellowish band extending as far as the seventh, and sometimes the 

 sixth stria, running from the shoulder to about one-third of the 

 length, where it expands as far as the fifth stria, and reduced to a 

 mere line from there to the apex ; there is besides a post-median, 

 transverse patch extending from the fourth to the eighth interval, 

 with occasionally a small dot on the third, and a short sutural 

 triangular apical one reaching the third stria ; pectus and abdomen 

 black. Length 6-6f mm. ; width 3-3 J mm. 



Hah. Natal (D'Urban), Transvaal (Pretoria). 



Callistomimus cafeek, Bohem., 

 Insect. Caffr., i., p. 128. 



Head closely punctured, very dark, metallic blue ; labrum, man- 

 dibles, palpi, the legs, with the exception of the apical part of the 

 femora and tibiae, which is infuscate, and the three basal joints of 

 the antennae flavescent, the other joints black ; prothorax bright 

 brick-red, closely punctured and hardly pubescent ; elytra oblong, 

 striate, with the intervals slightly shagreened, black, with two 

 flavescent lateral bands, and two juxta-sutural dots on each side : 

 the anterior band extends from the third stria to the edge of the 

 outer margin and is much sinuate, that is to say projects on the 

 intervals alternately towards the base and the median part, the post- 

 median one is nearly transverse, hardly sinuate, and reaches from 

 the fourth stria to the edge of the outer margin, the first juxta- 

 sutural dot is situated past the median part, a little above the post- 

 median transverse band, and extends from the second to the third 

 interval, and the apical one, somewhat triangular, reaches from the 

 suture to the third interval ; pectus and abdomen black. Length 

 5|- mm. ; width 2^ mm. 



Hah. Natal (Escourt), Zambezia (Salisbury). 



In the examples from Zambezia the anterior yellowish band is 

 much more sinuate than in those from Natal. 



Callistomimus geatus. 

 Head closely punctured, dark metallic green, closely punctured ; 

 labrum, palpi, legs, with the exception of the apical part of the 



