Descriptive Catalogue of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 271 
SiTAEis CAPENSis, Pering., 
Trans. S. Afric. Phil. Soc, iv., 1886, p. 141. 
Testaceous red, moderately shiny ; elytra punctulate, yellowish with 
the median part of the suture, the outer margin from some distance from 
the base to the apex, where it broadens considerably, and a humeral 
narrow band obliquely directed towards the median dorsal part infuscate ; 
antennae with the exception of the two basal joints which are red, knees, 
hind tibiae and tarsi fuscous black ; body densely pubescent, especially the 
under part. Head deflexed, rugose, and with a deep impression in the 
centre ; prothorax slightly broader than long, slightly ampliated laterally 
towards the median part, very little narrower at apex than at base, deeply 
impressed transversely on the median part of the disk, and with a shallow 
median impression above the centre of the base ; it is sparsely punctate ; 
scutellum punctate and pubescent, deeply impressed in the centre of the 
base ; elytra broader than the prothorax and three times as long, with the 
humeral angles very prominent, slightly sinuate laterally in the middle 
and greatly diverging at the suture from the median part to the apex, 
which is reduced to one-fourth of the width of the base ; they are finely 
rugose and very briefly pubescent, and have each one discoidal longitu- 
dinal raised line ; under side finely aciculate punctate, the meso- and 
metasternum are marginated with black. 
Length 12 mm. ; lat. 4|- mm. 
I found my first example of this species close to the nest of a bee 
belonging to the genus Anthophora. 
Hah. Cape Colony (Malmesbury). 
SiTARis NOTATicoLLis, Pering., 
Trans. S. Afric. Philos. Soc, iv., 1886, p. 141. 
Plate XXII., fig. 9. 
Black, with the prothorax, elytra, and abdomen ; light yellow ; pro- 
thorax with two black macules on the disk, apex of elytra black ; body 
covered with a flavescent pubescence short on the prothorax and elytra, 
longer on the head and especially denser on the under part of the body 
and on the legs. Head very rugose, separated from the epistome by 
a transverse impression, in the centre of the vertex is a shiny patch ; 
antennae black, the joints moderately robust, not compressed yet not 
cylindrical; prothorax as broad as long with the base and apex nearly 
equal in width, somewhat ampliated laterally in the anterior part ; deeply 
bi-impressed longitudinally in the centre, and also deeply but irregularly 
and not very closely punctate ; scutellum black, scabrose punctate, apex 
smooth, shiny ; elytra divaricating inwardly from the scutellary region to 
the apex where they are singly sharply acuminate, and very deeply 
