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



Var. a. Head and prothorax black, the latter with a fairly well- 

 defined narrow lateral band; at the apex of the triangular basal 

 patch of the elytra is an ill-defined transverse black band and 

 spots. 



Var. b. Prothorax flavo-testaceous splashed with black macules 

 and a few lateral white spots ; elytra also flavo-testaceous, splashed 

 with numerous black macules. 



Var. c. Black, shiny, prothorax with a narrow, lateral, flavescent 

 band with a few white spots, epimera of the presternum and hind 

 callus of elytra flavo-rufescent. I take this variety to be the female. 



Length 10-11 mm. ; width 5J-6J mm. 



Hab. Southern Ehodesia (Sebakwe ; between Limpopo and 

 Zambesi) ; Nyassaland. 



Gen. ATEICHELAPHINIS, Kraatz, 



Deutsch. Entomol. Zeitschr., 1898, p. 220. 



Buccal organs of Elaphinis ; clypeus oblongo-ovate. anterior 

 angles rounded, anterior margin roundly incised ; antennal club 

 of male nearly as long as the pedicel ; prothorax shaped as in 

 Elaphinis but quite straight above the scutellum which is also 

 less sharply acuminate than in the last-named genus ; elytra 

 bi-costate, the inner costa only moderately raised, the dorsal 

 intervals geminate striate, the striae normally punctulate ; sternal 

 process very short, transversely obtuse ; anterior tibiae bi-dentate 

 in both sexes ; tarsi moderately long, basal joint of hind tarsi 

 spinose outwardly in the female only. The shape of the clasps 

 of the male is very different from that of Elaphinis. 



In general appearance the species included in this genus is very 

 closely allied to those of the genus Elaphinis, the distinctive charac- 

 ters consist in the straight base of the prothorax, the bi-dentate 

 fore tibiae, the spinose basal joint of the hind tibiae, and specially 

 the normally punctulate dorsal striae. It plainly unites the first 

 division, or Goliathites, to the second or Getonites. 



Atrighelaphinis cinereobulosa, De Geer, 

 Mem. Ins., vii., p. 643. 

 cinerascens, Fabr., Syst. Eleuth., ii., p. 156 ; Gory and Perch., 

 Mom, p. 269, pi. 52, fig. 3. 



irregularis, Oliv., Ent., i., 6, p. 51, pi. 6, fig. 39. 

 Metallic dark brown clothed on the upper side by an opaque, ashy 

 violaceous coating, forming on the prothorax a lateral, often inter- 



