306 Transactions South African Philosophical Society, [vol. xiii. 



Stripsifer zebea, Gory and Perch., 

 Mon. Cet., p. 98, pi. 12, fig. 1. 



niger, G. and P., loc. cit., p. 99, pi. 12, fig. 3. 



Head black, with the clypeus flavous or maculated with black 

 prothorax flavous and having two broad black bands and one small 

 black patch surrounding the lateral impression ; elytra flavous, with 

 a longitudinal humeral broad fuscous band which coalesces more or 

 less regularly with a post-median one reaching from side to side, 

 and connected along the outer margin which is broadly infuscate, 

 also along the discoidal part and along the suture with an apical, 

 equally broad band ; the flavous space is thus reduced to a sub- 

 diagonal band reaching from the humeral part to the middle, a 

 sub-humeral, supra-marginal transverse patch, and two similar 

 supra-apical ones, but as often as not the fuscous or black bands 

 impinge more and more on the flavous part, and the whole body, 

 with the exception of the antennae, which remain flavescent, is black 

 (S. niger, G. and P.) ; in the species where the flavous parts are dis- 

 tinct the pygidium has a very broad, median, flavescent apical patch, 

 and the legs, with the exception of the tarsi, are pale yellow. The 

 facies of this species is the same as that of S. longipes, Sw., but the 

 body is broader, the clypeus is very deeply incised in the anterior 

 part, and more deeply strangulate at the base, but the shape of the 

 prothorax and elytra and their sculpture are the same. 



Length 13-15 mm. ; width 7-7f mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony (George, Port Elizabeth, Uitenhage, Albany). 



Gen. BKACHAGENIUS, Kraatz, 

 Deutsch. Entomol. Zeitschr., 1890, p. 399. 



" Clypeus of $ slightly excised at tip, that of the $ more deeply, 

 the lateral part is raised, the lateral angles are sub-rounded in the 

 male and acute in the female ; prothorax transverse, more narrowed 

 towards the apex, and with the posterior angles moderately rounded 

 in the male, or obtuse in the female, sides crenulate ; scutellum of 

 male obtuse at apex, that of the female shorter ; elytra of the male 

 abbreviate, not covering the last segment and pygidium ; anterior 

 tibiae moderately robust, tri-dentate, the first tooth of those of the 

 female little distinct; tarsi very slender, moderately elongated." 



Brachagenius pictipennis, Kraatz, 

 Loc. cit., 1890, p. 400, pi. ii., fig. 13. 



"Male: Black, opaque, elytra brownish, with the suture, the 

 sides, an oblique discoidal line and a median spot black, the apex 



