the S. African Sj>ectes o/ Dinonietoj)U9, tfc. 317 



12. Coloies albilateris. (PI. \'l. lig. 3.}, antenna, ^ .) 



$. Colotet albilntfris, Kt. Entomogrraphien, p. 131 (1840)' ? 

 $ . CoUte$ nobiliH, Boh. Ins. C-iflfr. i. 'l, p. 473 (1851) ' ? 



(^ . ^rodorately cloiif^ate, finely eincreo-pnbesccnt, sliininfij; 

 head black, suhnietallic, a streak or spot on each side near 

 the eyes and tlie de|)n'8scd space in front Havons (the hhick 

 portion extcndinj; forwards on each side l)et\v(en the eyes, 

 appearing; fl-sliapcd as seen from the anterior aspect, the 

 lower surface and palpi testaceous; antennaj black, joints 1-5 

 (a streak on 1 ahove, and 3 and 4 in great part, exce[)ted) 

 testaceous ; protliorax (a large l)lack patch on the disc 

 excepted) and le^s (the infuseate posterior femora and tibiae 

 excepted) testaceous; elytra cyaneous orf^reen, with a rather 

 broad elongate whitish patch at tlic sides below the base; 

 metasternum and abdomen black. Head broad, minutely 

 punctate, hollowed and smoother in the centre anteriorly ; 

 anteiuije long, joint 1 elongate, subconical, compressed, 



3 and 4 widened and compressed, 4 much longer tlian 3 and 

 slightly produced at the outer apical angle, 5-10 sliort ; 

 joints 3 and 4 of maxillary palpi enormously developed, 



4 securiform. Protliorax transverse. Elytra moderately 

 elongate, closely, very finely punctate. Anterior tarsi 

 4-jointed. 



? . Head bluish-black, unimpressed in tlie middle in 

 front; antenuffi shorter and more slender, joints 1-5 or (a 

 faint streak on 1 excepted) testaceous ; palpi hlaek ; anterior 

 and intermediate femora infuseate at the base. 



Length 2-1^ mm. 



Hub. S. Africa, Cape of Good Hope' {tijije of Erichsofi), 

 ^falvcrn, Estcourt, and Fnre, Natal {Dr. Mars/ml/, Miis. 

 Cape Town, Mus. J turban), Hivcr Limpopo-. 



C. albilateris and C. nohilis seem to have been each based 

 upon a single female example, the former having tlie legs 

 and antenna? testaceous, and both having the hi ad black, a 

 character distinguishing them from the same sex of nearly 

 all the allied forms. \\\ the absence of the ^ of C. albilateris, 

 it cannot be certainly identified ; but the name can quite 

 •well be used for the species with a black-hciuled $ . Three 

 (J (J and five ? ? , one of the latter labelled as having been 

 compared with the type of C nobilis (which is said to have 

 the antennal joints 5-7 slightly infuseate externally), are 

 referred to the [)resent species. The c^ differs froiu that of 

 C. plagialus, Ab,, in liaving the head hollowed and smoother 

 in the middle in front and the black l)asal portion extending 



