318 Descriptive Catalogue [1898. 



Tribe GALEKITINI. 



Gen. DEYPTA, 



Catal., p. 156. 



Deypta mashona. 



Dark metallic green, with the knees and the apical part of the first 

 and third joints of antennae black ; legs, mandibles, and palpi flav- 

 escent. Closely allied to D. melanarthra, Catal., p. 159, from which 

 it differs in the sculpture of the elytra, which are also brighter green, 

 although equally pubescent ; in D. melanarthra the striae are filled 

 with a series of broad punctures impinging on the sides of the raised 

 intervals, the upper part of which is irregularly punctulate, but in 

 D. mashuna the striae are very narrow and rugose, and the intervals 

 are very deeply and closely, although irregularly, punctured, this 

 gives them a shagreened appearance ; the head and prothorax are 

 also shagreened, and the third joint of antennae is shorter than in 

 C. melanarthra, which species it should follow in the systematic 

 arrangement. Length 11 mm. ; width 3 mm. 



Hah. Zambezia (Salisbury). 



I gave Zambezia as the habitat of D. melanarthra, but, so far as 

 I know now, it is restricted to Natal. 



Deypta natalia. 



A close ally of D. dentata from which it differs in the colour of the 

 elytra, which are greener ; the intervals are not convex, even at the 

 base ; the punctures on the striae are smaller, and the intervals are a 

 little less deeply punctured ; the colour of the legs and antennae is 

 similar. Length 8 J mm. ; width 3 mm. 



Hab. Natal (Newcastle). 



Gen. ZUPHIUM, 

 Catal., p. 162. 



ZUPHIUM TEI-MACULATUM. 



Sub-opaque, pubescent ; head black ; antennae and legs flavo- 

 rufescent ; prothorax brick-red ; elytra deep fuscous with a sub- 

 diagonal brick-red patch extending in the anterior part from the 

 third to the sixth interval on each side, and a small supra-apical 

 sutural patch, somewhat quadrate, and extending to the second stria 



