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femora and tibiae, which are infuscate, and also the three basal 

 joints of antennae, light flavescent, the other joints black ; prothorax 

 dark brick-red, closely punctured, briefly pubescent ; elytra elongato- 

 ovate, striate, with the intervals slightly shagreened, black, with a 

 narrow flavescent outer margin, two lateral pale-yellow bands 

 and two ill-defined, or often wanting, juxta-sutural dots : the 

 anterior band is narrow, slightly sinuate, and extends from the 

 third interval to the outer margin, the post-median one from the 

 fourth interval to the outer margin, the first dot is situated on the 

 third interval above the post-median band, and the sutural apical 

 one is very nearly obliterate ; pectus and abdomen black. Length 

 5 mm. ; width 2 mm. 



Hab. Zambezia (Salisbury). 



Callistomimus insuetus. 



Palpi, legs, the three basal joints of antennae, head, and prothorax 

 light brick-red ; head and prothorax closely punctured, the former 

 with a faint median infuscate patch, the latter with tw^o indistinct 

 discoidal spots and very slightly pubescent ; elytra elongato-ovate, 

 striate, intervals slightly shagreened, dark green, and with nine 

 flavescent dots on each side : one below the base on the third inter- 

 val, three on the third, fifth, and seventh, a little before the median 

 part, a fifth on the third interval slightly below the middle ; three 

 post-median on the fifth, seventh, and eighth, the two latter 

 coalescing, and a triangular, sutural apical one, posterior margin 

 with a narrow flavescent edging ; pectus and abdomen black. 

 Length 5 mm. ; width 2 mm. 



Hab. Mozambique (Rikatla). 



Callistomimus guttatus, Chaud., 

 Bull. Mosc, 1872, p. 38. 



Head and prothorax brick-red above and beneath, the former with 

 a frontal spot, the latter with tw^o infuscate bands ; elytra bluish 

 black, with the anterior part of the outer margin as well as the epi- 

 pleurae pale orange, and having also on each side a post-median 

 spot near the suture, a smaller and apical juxta-sutural one of the 

 same colour, and, sometimes, a very narrow and sinuate ante-median 

 band which does not reach the suture and broadens as it reaches 

 the outer margin, as well as two very small spots on the posterior 

 part of the third interval ; sternum black ; abdomen deep brown ; 

 mandibles testaceous as well as the legs ; palpi slightly infuscate ; 

 the three basal joints of antennae testaceous. Length 7 mm. 



Hab. Natal, teste Chaud. 



