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Africa from Salisbury (Zambesia), where it seems to take the place 

 of T. sericatus, and it is thus very doubtful if it could have been 

 captured by the collectors of the frigate Eugenie. On the other 

 hand, T. unicolor occurs at Port Elizabeth, Cape Colony, and the 

 probabilities are that it originally came from there. 

 Hah. Cape Colony (Port Elizabeth, Knysna). 



Tbibe GEAPHIPTEEINI. 



Gen. GEAPHIPTEEUS, 

 Catal., p. 293. 



Antennae with the eight apical joints sub-compressed. 



Group of G. Westivoodi. 



Prothorax with a median longitudinal band ; elytra with a broad, 

 elongate black patch equi-distant from the base and median part, 

 and a broad sutural band connected at some distance from the apex 

 with the tip of an arcuate apical patch distmctus. 



Antennae with the eight terminal joints very flattened. 



Group of G. nanniscus. 

 Prothorax not denuded in the centre, moderately broad, pubescence 

 of outer margins lighter than that on the disk ; elytra sub-ovate, 

 covered with a drab-coloured pubescence turning to greyish white 

 along the margin curtus. 



Group of G. albolineahis. 

 Elytra black with a light ochreous-yellow outer margin, interrupted 

 dorsal lines reaching the median part, the outer one being the 

 longest, and an apical, sub-triangular patch connected with the 

 outer margin darlingi. 



Geaphipterus distinctus. 



Black, covered with a greyish pubescence ; head not denuded in 

 the middle, basal joint of palpi, the three basal ones of the antennae 

 as well as the basal part of the fourth, and tibiae red ; prothorax 

 broad and with a wide median longitudinal band ; elytra nearly sub- 

 quadrate but rounded in the humeral part, and having on each side 

 an elongate patch aculeate at tip, the two ends of which are nearly 

 equidistant from base and median part, as well as from the outer 

 margin, and a broad sutural band which reaches from the base to 

 four-fifths of the length, and there coalesces with the inner upper 

 edge of an apical, crescent-shape, apical patch which does not, 



