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of the Transvaal and Natal. Dejean’s description of neglecta (Sp. Gen. 
Coleopt. I. p. 114) does not mention the very marked supra-orbital 
striation which is referred to by Peringuey in his corrected table of 
the group, vide Trans. Phil. Soc. S. Afr. Vol. X, p. 304, and which I 
have found a most constant feature in the form which I attribute to 
neglecta. In the author’s description of his type, which he records 
as received from Senegal, he refers to the elytral pattern as follows: 
“The humeral sub-hamate lunule is connected with the upper end of 
the juxta-sutural and only very narrowly interrupted at the lower 
half of the band.” 
In all the forms of neglecta? that I have had under review from 
Natal, Transvaal and Orange Free State: (1) the hamate lunules and the 
upper and lower halves of the juxta-sutural bands are widely interrupted 
and form three distinct elongate spots on either side of the suture. 
This is one of the points which separates it from brevicollis, to which 
Dejean’s typical neglecta seems to more nearly approximate. Further 
compared with brevicollis and others of the group. (2) The median 
rami are given off from the lateral bands with a more diagonal 
downward trend and are less sharply elbowed near the suture. (3) The 
lateral margins of the prothorax are slightly rounded and of even 
width at apex and base and, in all unrubbed specimens, there is a 
somewhat dense narrow fringe of white decumbent hairs on the lateral 
margins of the prothorax instead of hairs sparsely distributed over the 
disc. (4) The labrum is more sub-triangularly produced and less 
sinuate above the outer angles than in the corresponding sexes of 
brevicollis-clathrata. In this respect they approximate to C. bertolonii- 
Jasciculicornis but are generally more inwardly inclined at the outer 
angles, which makes them appear narrower. (5) The supra-orbital 
striz are more coarsely developed than in any other form of the group 
except its nearest relative vivida, Boh. The race intermedia Klug. 
also has supra-orbital striation, but it is always finer and less widely 
extended and the shagreening of both head and prothorax is smoother. 
The articulations of the antennz are similar to those of brevicollis 
clathrata, but shorter and stouter than those of intermedia. They are, 
therefore, slightly differentiated from those of bertolonit-fasciculicornis 
whose terminal joints in the males, at least, are shorter. 
The pattern of the race vivida, Boh., is that of neglecta, except 
that the rami and sub-apical bands are disconnected from one another 
by lesser or greater intervals of the black ground colour. A con- 
siderable percentage have the humeral and median rami narrowly 
connected, but the sub-apical marginal band is invariably separated 
by a considerable interval from the median ramus. The juxta-sutural 
