Descriptive Catalogue of the Coleoptera of So2ith Africa. 
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Cantharis strangulata, Gerst., 
Monatsb. Akad. Wiss. Berl., 1854, p. 695. 
Peter's Reis. n. Moss., 1862, p. 295. 
fulvicornis, Fahr., Ofv. Vet. Ak. Forhdl., 1870, p. 353. 
Black, with a very faint blue black metallic tinge more distinct on the 
under side than on the upper ; prothorax and pedicel of head reddish 
yellow ; antennal joints past the three basal ones fuscous rufescent ; head 
clothed with a brief somewhat dense greyish pubescence and sub-remotely 
punctulate, but the punctures are more closely set on the vertex, above 
the epistome is a very plain, arcuate impression ; antennas long slender, 
joints sub-cylindrical, and with the exception of the basal three, almost 
three times as long as broad ; prothorax twice as long as broad, and 
narrowed in front into a long neck, glabrous, and bearing a few greatly 
remote, shallow punctures ; elytra very elongated, cylindrical, not much 
divaricating singly at apex, very closely punctulate sub-shagreened, each 
puncture bearing a long, appressed greyish hair forming however only a 
spare pubescence, there are no traces of dorsal costules ; legs and under 
side as pubescent as the elytra. 
Length 13-17 mm. ; width 3f-4 mm. 
Hab. Cape Colony (Kimberley, Colesberg, Yaal River, Enon) ; 
Transvaal (Rustenburg, Pietersburg, Waterberg, Pretoria). 
This species occurs also in Zanzibar. Owing to the courtesy of 
Professor H. J. Kolbe, of the Berlin Museum, I have been able to examine 
a co-type of Gerstacker's species. 
Cantharis bohemani, Makl, 
Ofv. Fin. Soc, xviii., 1875, p. 83. 
bicolor, Fahr., Ofv. Vet. Ak. Forh., 1870, p. 353. 
Black, sub-opaque, upper part of prothorax red, head with a very 
distinct median frontal red macule ; head very briefly pubescent, and 
very closely and somewhat deeply punctate all over ; antennae long, joints 
sub-cylindrical, somewhat compressed ; prothorax very strongly narrowed 
laterally into a long neck from about the median part, the anterior part is 
also strongly depressed above, the posterior being thus almost gibbose, the 
base is fossulate in the centre, there is a central line from the fossule to 
the median part, and the surface is remotely punctate, each puncture 
bearing a minute black bristle ; elytra elongated, coriaceous shagreened, 
very briefly pubescent, and the pubescence fuscous, they have no trace of 
costules ; the under side and legs are very closely aciculate punctate, and 
clothed with a very brief pubescence. 
Length 23 mm. ; width 6 mm. 
Hab, Cape Colony (Colesberg), Transvaal (Pietersburg), Southern 
Rhodesia (Salisbury). 
