Transactions of the South African Philosophical Society Volume 7 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1896 Excerpt: ...hardly longer than broad, and have little or no trace of striae or white lines. Length 9--12 mm.; width 4-5 mm. Hab. Natal (Newcastle, Frere), Transvaal (Pretoria, Klerksdorp, Potchefstroom, Barberton), Orange Free State (Parys). Both this species and the preceding ones are very closely allied; the paler lines on the elytra are more or less discernible in both, although always less pronounced in G. macroccphalus, but the most distinctive feature of this species is the form of the elytra, which are broader in proportion to the length, with the humeral angles very slightly rounded only, thus giving them a more quadrate shape. GRAPHIPTEHUS Bouvoononu, Chaud., Bull. Mosc., 1870, p. 310. Covered with a yellow pubescence; head with a narrow denuded median line; prothorax very broad; elytra quadrate, with a broad juxta-sutural black band on each side reaching neither base nor apex, divided in the centre by a. narrow line, of the colour of the background, and a narrow black line parallel to the first, connected with it behind, but not reaching the base; legs and antennae black. Length 13 mm.; width 5 mm. Hab. Mozambique and Lake N'Gami, teste Chaud. In one of the examples in De Chaudoir's collection the juxtasutural band is not divided in the centre by a narrow yellow line. Covered with a yellow pubescence; head with a narrow denuded median line; prothorax very broad; elytra quadrate, with a broad juxta-sutural black band reaching from a little below the base to near the apex, and covering about two-fifths of the disk; legs and antenna: black, but with the tibia; and two basal joints of antenna: sometimes rufescent. Length 91--12 mm.; width 4-5 mm. Hab. Natal (Frere, very small specimens); Transvaal (Pretoria, Potchefstroom, Klerksdorp, Leydenburg). GRAPE-IIPTERUS ...