536 • Descriptive Catalogue '1896. 



Gen. BADISTEE. 

 Mentum incised in a subquadrangular shape, and without any- 

 median tooth ; hgula hardly free from the paraglossse at the tip, 

 and truncate, the paraglossse slender and much longer than the 

 ligula ; last joint of palpi fusiform, sharply acuminate ; antennae 

 long, the two basal joints glabrous ; labrum short, deeply incised ; 

 head short, not narrowed behind, ridge in front of the eyes very 

 pronounced ; prothorax a little broader at the apex, which is hardly 

 sinuate, than at the base, gradually rounded laterally, grooved longi- 

 tudinally in the centre, depressed laterally near the base and with 

 one lateral seta between the apex and the median part ; elytra 

 elongated, slightly broader past the middle than at the base, sides 

 not inflexed, striate, with two punctures on the third interval, surface 

 generally iridescent, eighth and ninth striae not approximate ; anterior 

 tarsi of the male spongy underneath, and ciliate outwardly, the 

 three first joints broadly dilated, the third one half the size of the 

 second, which is shorter but broader and more transverse than 

 the basal one. 



Badister Promontorii. 



Head black, moderately shining, smooth ; labrum and the two basal 

 joints of the antennae reddish, the others slightly rufescent ; pro- 

 thorax pale red, smooth, the anterior part of the disk raised and the 

 lateral posterior part depressed on each side, outer margin much 

 reflexed in the basal angle ; elytra elongated, subparallel, not much 

 convex, black, very iridescent and having a narrow marginal yellowish- 

 red band reaching the eighth stria ; metathorax and abdomen black, 

 iridescent ; legs pale yellowish red. Length 6 mm. ; width 2 mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Cape Town), Zambezia (Salisbury). 



Gen. KHEMBUS, Latreille, 

 Icon. Col. d'Europe. 



Mentum deeply and narrowly incised, with the inner lobes nearly 

 perpendicular, the outer ones rounded, a very short triangular tooth 

 in the middle ; ligula very long and slender, slightly sinuate at the 

 tip, with a long seta on each side of the sinuation and hardly 

 disconnected from the paraglosste, which are slender and much 

 longer ; last joint of palpi slightly fusiform, truncate at the tip ; 

 antennae moderately long, the three basal joints glabrous ; head 

 deeply depressed in the anterior part ; labrum deeply incised, 

 epistoma short, the anterior part semicircular ; prothorax transverse, 

 slightly ampliated laterally from the apex to the median part, sinuate 

 behind, narrowly grooved longitudinally in the middle, deeply im- 

 pressed on each side of the median groove and with two setae 



