1900.] Catalogue of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 67 



Coppery red, slightly opaque; prothorax with a smooth, 



raised longitudinal line cuprcus. 



Upper side light hronze with a slight coppery tinge, 



opaque ; prothorax without a raised median shining line serlcatus. 



Upper side dark blue, opaque ; prothorax with a fine, not 



very distinct longitudinal median band niodcstus. 



a^. Head with a median, smooth longitudinal carina. 

 d. Lateral part of pectus clothed with a silky white 

 pubescence. 



Coppery red or bright green ; prothorax with a nearly 

 continuous smooth, raised line, and two raised, smooth 

 spaces on each side of it ignltus. 



Green or greenish blue, shining ; prothorax not granulose 



in the centre, only punctate, the two lateral areas absent vircns. 



Gymnopleurus splendens, Cast., 

 Hist. Nat. d. Ins., ii., p. 71. 



G. idvofanus, Latr., Voy. Cailliaud., iv., p. 281. 



G. splendidus, Bertolon., Nov. Comment. Ac. Bonon., x., p. 393. 



Sub-opaque metallic green on the upper side with the under side 

 violaceous green and the legs green underneath, but sometimes 

 slightly violaceous on the upper side ; head very closely granulate, 

 apical part of clypeus sub-foveate ; prothorax very closely shagreened 

 with the anterior and lateral part very closely granulose, in the 

 centre of the disk there is a short, impressed longitudinal line 

 reaching neither the middle nor the base, and on each side of it 

 there is a very short, basal, lineiform impression, the marginal 

 carina is nearly straight from past the median part to the base where 

 it is recurved and produced in a very distinct angle ; elytra very finely 

 striate, and evenly shagreened in the intervals ; pygidium closely 

 aciculate and finely granulose ; metasternum produced in a sharp 

 triangular tubercle deeply impressed at the base, the intercoxal 

 space is vaguely punctured with the anterior part granulose ; it has a 

 slender median impressed line reaching from near the hsbse, which 

 is not impressed, to a short distance from the basal impression of the 

 apical tubercle, sides very closely granulose ; anterior tibiae of male 

 slightly incurved and dilated at tip, a little emarginate inwardly 

 beyond the blunt internal mucro, and sinuate under the basal 

 external tooth. 



Length 16-18 mm. ; width 11-12 mm. 



Hah. Southern Ehodesia (Middle Limpopo, Salisbury, Victoria 

 Falls), Natal (Durban, Frere), Bechuanaland (Kanye). 



