﻿1902.] 
  Catalogue 
  of 
  the 
  Coleoptera 
  of 
  South 
  Africa. 
  633 
  

  

  as 
  Beaufort 
  West 
  and 
  Carnarvon. 
  Two 
  species 
  only 
  are 
  found 
  in 
  the 
  

   eastern 
  parts 
  of 
  the 
  Cape 
  Colony. 
  

  

  Key 
  to 
  the 
  Species. 
  

  

  Upper 
  side 
  black, 
  no 
  scales 
  on 
  the 
  prothorax 
  ; 
  elytra 
  occasionally 
  

   with 
  two 
  narrow, 
  elongate 
  patches 
  of 
  whitish 
  scales 
  on 
  each 
  side 
  . 
  . 
  ursus. 
  

  

  Prothorax 
  with 
  a 
  supra-lateral 
  narrow 
  band 
  of 
  glowing 
  red 
  scales 
  

   on 
  each 
  side 
  ; 
  posterior 
  part 
  of 
  elytra 
  and 
  sides 
  covered 
  with 
  similar 
  

   scales 
  Ignitus. 
  

  

  Prothorax 
  with 
  three 
  greenish 
  or 
  greenish 
  blue 
  narrow 
  bands 
  of 
  

   scales 
  ; 
  elytra 
  and 
  pygidium 
  black, 
  clothed 
  with 
  dense 
  but 
  not 
  

   contiguous 
  scales, 
  abdomen 
  without 
  scales 
  langipes. 
  

  

  Head, 
  prothorax, 
  and 
  elytra 
  covered 
  with 
  contiguous 
  bright 
  green 
  

   scales, 
  the 
  former 
  with 
  two 
  narrow, 
  longitudinal 
  black 
  median 
  lines 
  

   elytra 
  black, 
  abdomen, 
  pygidium, 
  and 
  hind 
  femora 
  clothed 
  with 
  

   greenish 
  golden 
  scales 
  ditus. 
  

  

  Prothorax 
  with 
  a 
  faint 
  lateral 
  marginal 
  patch 
  of 
  bluish 
  scales 
  ; 
  

   elytra 
  black 
  with 
  the 
  posterior 
  part, 
  the 
  pygidium 
  and 
  abdomen 
  

   sprinkled 
  over 
  with 
  blue 
  scales 
  ; 
  the 
  erect 
  bristles 
  on 
  the 
  elytra 
  white 
  pauperatus.. 
  

  

  Prothorax 
  without 
  any 
  scale 
  ; 
  the 
  elytra 
  alone 
  are 
  sprinkled 
  with 
  

   blue 
  scales, 
  and 
  the 
  erect 
  bristles 
  are 
  black 
  elizabethce. 
  

  

  Prothorax 
  covered 
  with 
  contiguous 
  emerald-green 
  scales 
  except 
  

   for 
  a 
  median, 
  moderately 
  broad, 
  longitudinal 
  space 
  ; 
  elytra 
  black, 
  

   sprinkled 
  with 
  patches 
  of 
  closely 
  set 
  scales 
  of 
  the 
  same 
  colour 
  ; 
  

   pygidium 
  and 
  abdomen 
  covered 
  with 
  contiguous 
  scales 
  smaragdinus. 
  

  

  Prothorax 
  with 
  three, 
  not 
  well-defined 
  bands 
  of 
  greenish 
  scales 
  ; 
  

   elytra 
  and 
  pygidium 
  sprinkled 
  more 
  or 
  less 
  thickly 
  with 
  greenish 
  

   blue 
  scales 
  ; 
  abdomen 
  and 
  hind 
  femora 
  clothed 
  with 
  a 
  long- 
  

   pubescence 
  lepidotas. 
  

  

  Prothorax 
  without 
  scales 
  ; 
  elytra 
  set 
  with 
  a 
  few 
  opaline 
  scales 
  ; 
  

   pygidium 
  and 
  abdomen 
  with 
  a 
  few 
  greenish 
  scales 
  ; 
  hind 
  femora 
  

   clothed 
  with 
  a 
  long 
  black 
  pubescence 
  hilaris. 
  

  

  Prothorax 
  with 
  three 
  narrow 
  median 
  bands 
  and 
  a 
  small 
  lateral 
  

   patch 
  of 
  slightly 
  greenish 
  opaline 
  scales 
  ; 
  prothorax 
  with 
  a 
  narrow 
  

   marginal 
  and 
  sutural 
  band 
  of 
  similar 
  scales 
  ; 
  pygidium 
  and 
  abdomen 
  

   clothed 
  with 
  opaline 
  scales 
  i 
  gemmatus. 
  

  

  Prothorax 
  without 
  scales 
  ; 
  elytra 
  chocolate-brown 
  and 
  with 
  a 
  

   conspicuous 
  outer 
  marginal 
  band 
  of 
  opaline 
  golden 
  scales 
  . 
  . 
  . 
  . 
  lynx. 
  

  

  Prothorax 
  black, 
  without 
  scales 
  ; 
  elytra 
  pale 
  fulvous, 
  edged 
  with 
  

   black, 
  and 
  having 
  a 
  few 
  opaline 
  scales 
  on 
  the 
  outer 
  margin 
  ; 
  

   pygidium 
  and 
  abdomen 
  clothed 
  with 
  similar 
  scales 
  senilis. 
  

  

  Prothorax 
  black 
  ; 
  elytra 
  pale 
  fulvous, 
  narrowly 
  inf 
  uscate 
  laterally, 
  

   but 
  without 
  any 
  scales 
  on 
  the 
  upper 
  or 
  under 
  side 
  nasutus. 
  

  

  Prothorax 
  black 
  ; 
  elytra 
  testaceous 
  red 
  ; 
  no 
  scales 
  proletarius* 
  

  

  