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Show 1 9 0 5 .] SOUTH-AFRICAN COLEOPTERA. 2 7 3 indefinite way just before the very definite white fascia; this is narrowly interrupted at the suture ; the apex is white, but with a fine blackish margin ; the space between the fascia and the apex is very obsoletely punctured, as is the fascia, almost smooth externally. The eyes, head, legs, and body generally are clothed with long but fine hairs. One example of this insect received long ago from Dr. Baden is in my collection, but had, unfortunately, no precise locality. It is the larger specimen. G y p o n y x b r a u n s i , sp. n. Elongatus, nigro-piceus; ore, antennis palpisque, thoracis margine antico, corpore subtus, pedibus (geniculis tibiisque except is) dilutioribus, rufo-piceis. Elytris basi indeterminate, fascia mediana (in marginem latissima postice bidentata) maculaque apicali obliqua testaceis. Thorace elongato, antice tenuiter, ad basin fortius constricto ; elytris ad basin punctato-lineatis, seriebus vix ad medium vectis, externe deficientibus. Long. 13 millim. Hub. Willowmore, Cape Colony (Brauns). This species differs from any other known to me by its elongate thorax and its comparatively smooth and shining appearance, and also by the clear and distinct coloration and pattern of the elytra. The colour of the body, with the exception of the head and thorax, of the tips of the femora, and bases of the tibiae, is a bright rusty red. The elytra have an oblique broad fascia, much indented, running backwards from below the callus to the suture, of a pitchy colour ; a much broader patch before the apex of a lighter pitchy brown,'deeply indented twice on its upper edge, and once on its lower edge, so that it is narrowest in the middle. The lines of punctures scarcely pass the first brown fascia, only foui oi fiv e punctures being on the yellow median wide patch. The thorax is nearly twice as long as wide, its front margin is rufous, the sides very little widened, not deeply constricted in front, the base coarctate and margined, the punctuation close and fine, the disk a little flat. I have at present only seen the example described, which I have pleasure in naming after its captor, Dr. H. Brauns. G raptoclerus Gorh. Graptoclerus Gorh. Ann. & Mag. N. Hist. ser. 7, vii. p. 351 (1901) ; Schenk. I. c. p. 48, nota. G raptoclerus q u ad r ipu n c ta tu s Gorh. I. c. p. 353. Hab. Grahamstown, Cape Colony (Dunkerbosh, Dr. Penther). Described by me from Natal. 1 example. T arsostenus Spinola. T arsostenus univittattjs R ossi. Bab. Willowmore (Brauns). P ro c . Z ool. S o c .- 1905, V o l . II. No. XVIII. 18 |