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reicherti, Brauns) by its comparatively great size, the long yellow 

 hairs of the upper side of the body, and above all by the shape 

 of the prothorax which is deeply incised laterally above the 

 posterior angles, the latter being produced into a triangular process 

 directed outwards, bearing a dense bunch of long hairs at the tip, 

 and projecting slightly beyond the humeral angle of the elytra, the 

 hind median part of the disk is strongly dehiscent, but the sides 

 have remained as high as the anterior dorsal part and form thus 

 a somewhat narrow rounded wall along each side of the depression ; 

 the elytra have also in the anterior part of the base a dehiscent 

 medium impression corresponding in size and depth to the pro- 

 thoracic one. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Matjesfontein). E. M. Lightfoot. 



Family BUPRESTID^. 

 Teibe AGEILINI. 



Gen. C0R.^BUS, Cast, and Gor. 



COR^BUS SCINTILLANS, n. sp. 



Subtus obscure asneus, supra subtusque breviter albido pubescens ; 

 caput antice viridi vertice cupreo micans ; pi'othorax antice laete 

 cupreus, postice obscurior lateribus viridi micantibus ; elytra a basi 

 ultra medium viridiorichalcea, a medio apice infuscata fasciis 

 duabus communibus albo pubescentibus prima post medium sita, 

 altera supra apicali notata ; pectus antennae, femoraque extus Isete 

 viridia ; caput crebre punctatum, antice impressum, vertice leviter 

 canaliculatum ; prothorax antice basi latior, lateraliter nonnihil 

 ampliatus lateribus arcuatim depressis carina supra marginali per- 

 spicua, dorso antice elevatus, postice planus, anguste longitudina- 

 liter canaliculatus, crebre asperose punctatus ; scutellum basi 

 aciculatum ; elytra antice prothoracis basi nonnihil latiora, pone 

 humeros vix sinuata dein abdomen fere tegentia, postice singu- 

 latim rotundata margine acute serrata ; corpus subtus pedesque 

 crebre punctata. 



Long. 5 mm. ; lat. 1 mm. 



Hab. Southern Rhodesia (Sebakw^e), Delancey Dods. 



