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a typical specimen, but I cannot identify it with the latter, as the 
antennæ and the legs are dark fulvous, not metallic green, the 
head and thorax is less closely punctured and the prosternum is. 
thickly clothed with pubescence, which does not permit any sculp- 
turing to be seen; this is the case in the ten or morespecimens before 
me; the prosternum in C. asperaluwm is smooth and strongly punc- 
tured ; in the female of the present insect, the thorax shows scar- 
cely any transverse groove, but in the male, the latter is very 
strongly marked, the elytral rugosities in the female are as usual, 
very distinct at the sides, but not anything so strong or tuberculate 
as in C. asperalum. 
Pseudocolaspis discoidalis n. sp. 
Metallie greenish-æneous, pubescent, the basal joints of the 
antennæ and the legs more or less fulvous, thorax finely and clo- 
sely punctured, elytra more strongly punctured, the sides and apex 
pale fulvous, the base and suture metallic greenish. 
Length 1 1/2 line. 
Head closely punctured and slightly rugose, æneous, the epis- 
tome not separated from the face, bounded laterally by a narrow 
ridge, antennæ extending to the base of the thorax, fulvous; the 
first and second joint thickened, nearly equal, terminal joints 
distincly dilated, not longer than broad, thorax about as long as 
broad, gradually widened at the middle, the surface finely and not 
very closely punctured, cupreous or æneous, clothed with grey 
pubescence ; scutellum subquadrate, its apex truncate, elytra 
wider at the base than the thorax, more closely and rather more 
strongly punctured, the punctures arranged in very closely approa- 
ched irregular rows, rather sparingly pubescent like the thorax, 
the sides and apex fulvous, the disc, in shape of a triangular patch, 
gradually narrowed and pointed along the suture, greenish 
æneous, underside also metallic greenish, legs fulvous, the tarsi 
piceous, prosternum broad!y subquadrate, sparingly punctured, 
femora with a very small tooth. 
North West Provinces. 
[ am not acquainted with any species of this genus, possessing 
similarly coloured elytra, there are several specimens before me 
which show no difference in this respect; in all, the metallic dis- 
coïdal patch commences broadly at the base and gets gradually 
narrowed towards the apex, which it does not quite reach, the 
pubeécence of the elytra is stiff and arranged more regularly near 
the apex; in some specimens, the apical joints of the antennæ are 
nearly black. 
— TRI DEI——- 
