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middle of the elytra, black, the lower five joints fulvous, the third 

 and fourth joint equal, twice as long as the third, terminal joints 

 slightly thickened but elongate ; thorax rather more than twice as 

 broad as long, the sides strongly obliquely narrowed anteriorly, 

 nearly straight, the surface very minutely punctured when seen 

 under a strong lens, the anterior and lateral margins broadly flavous, 

 the basal portion black, in shape of a transverse broad band which 

 includes three flavous round spots, a small one at each side and a 

 larger one at the middle, scutellum black, its apex rounded, elytra 

 regularly punctate- striate, more strongly punctured at the middle 

 than at the suture or the sides, the interstices flat and impunctate, 

 each elytron with five flavous spots separated by angular black 

 bands ; of the flavous markings, an elongate transverse deeply sinuate 

 band is placed at the base near the scutellum, a small spot on the 

 shoulder, two spots placed immediately and transversely below the 

 middle and the fifth at the apex ; if the flavous colour is taken for 

 that of the ground, the elytra may be described as having two angu- 

 late transverse black bands, one before, the other below the middle 

 and connected at the sides by a longitudinal stripe from the shoulders 

 downwards, elytral epipleurse flavous ; under side pale fulvous as 

 well as the legs, the former finely and closely punctured, the latter 

 more or less banded with black, finely pubescent ; base of the pro- 

 sternum deeply concave, the angles acutely produced, pale flavous. 



Hah. Pretoria. 



The single specimen which I possess of this species may 

 perhaps be best compared with G. Jlavago, Suff., and 

 several others belonging to the same group having black 

 and flavous elytra ; there is, however, no species amongst 

 them in which the thorax is similarly marked or in which 

 the elytra have five flavous spots ; the colour of the under 

 side and that of the legs also differs. 



Gryptocephalus benuensis, sp. n. 



Fulvous, the apical joints of the antennae black, the thorax scarcely 

 perceptibly punctured, with a broad lateral reflexed margin, elytra 

 closely and strongly punctate-striate near the suture and at the 

 sides, the rest of the disc irregularly punctured. 



Length 6 millim. 



Of entirely fulvous colour, the head finely and rather closely 

 punctured, broad, the eyes broadly emarginate, the clypeus separ- 

 ated from the face by a semicircular groove, antennae extending just 

 beyond the base of the elytra, the lower six joints fulvous, the rest 



