1907.] Catalogue of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 391 



rufescent, prothorax and scutellum bronze-green or light bronze ; 

 elytra straw-colour or flavescent, with the suture, the edge of the 

 outer margin and a humeral and a supra-apical patch of moderate 

 size on each side black, under side greenish bronze, the pygidium, 

 the sternal process, and the two apical abdominal segments are 

 somewhat rufescent ; antennal club rufescent ; head deeply pitted ; 

 clypeus excavated with the sides produced on each side at apex into 

 a recurved tooth, while the anterior margin is continued as a curved 

 stalk diverging into a long, bifurcate divaricating process ; this horn 

 varies in length from 4 to 12 mm. in the curve ; prothorax closely 

 shagreened, the edge of the margin is reddish ; scutellum closely 

 aciculate ; elytra very closely aciculate and having also several rows 

 of round, not deep punctures ; pygidium closely aciculate ; abdomen 

 glabrous, pectus sparsely and briefly hairy, deeply punctate on the 

 sides, sternal process grooved, smooth, the mesosternal part divided 

 by a faint suture ; anterior coxa? and margin of the outer face of the 

 anterior femora densely ciliate, anterior tibiae sharply denticulate 

 inwardly, bi-dentate outwardly, and glabrous, intermediate and 

 hind legs also glabrous, hind tibiae without a tooth on the 

 upper edge. 



Female : Head and clypeus simple, the latter with the angles 

 moderately rounded, and both deeply and somewhat closely pitted ; 

 the prothorax is much more deeply pitted than in the male, and 

 the intervals between the punctures are aciculate ; the lateral 

 punctures of the scutellum and the seriate rows of punctures on 

 the elytra are much more distinct ; the outer face of the marginal 

 part of the anterior femora is as densely ciliate as in the male, and 

 the fore tibiae are sharply tri-dentate outwardly. 



In the examples from Natal the prothorax is occasionally dull 

 dark green, and the elytra of a lighter straw-colour than in 

 examples from the Northern Transvaal and Southern Ehodesia. 

 Yet I have received from Manica specimens with brighter green 

 thorax and light elytra, but among them were examples of the 

 normal hue. It is a somewhat similar light-coloured variety from 

 Damaraland that Kraatz described under the name of E. hereroensis. 



North of the South African limit (Mamboia, Usambara, &c.) the 

 type form is replaced by the variety euthalia, Bat., which differs 

 from it in the colour of the elytra being of a rufescent yellowish hue 

 with a tinge of green, the suture is narrow and green, and the apical 

 elytral patch is narrowly edged with green. The variety penetrates 

 also in the South African area, as it has been recorded from Mel- 

 setter in Southern Ehodesia, but the solitary example which I saw 

 is still nearer to the light variety of the type form than to my 



