24 M. L. Perimjiiey's Descriptive Catalogue [Nov. 30, 



wanting ; sides of the pectus and prothorax with long whitish hairs ; 

 tarsi grooved on the upper part. 



Length, 15-18; width, 5-5i™""- 



Delagoa Bay (Rikatla). 



B. NOTATUS. Bohem. 



Insect. Caffr. 1, p. 6. 

 PI. 1, fig. 5. 



Very dark bronze on the upper part, underside and legs bright 

 metallic violaceous blue ; palpi pale-yellow, the apical joint dark blue ; 

 basal part of the mandibles yellow ; labrum convex, yellowish, slightly 

 infuscated at the base in the female, the apical part five-dented, and 

 with four setigerous punctures, one on each side, the other above the 

 second tooth ; head strigose, with a few decumbent hairs, antennae 

 with the four basal joints filiform, the 5th, 6th, and 7th compressed 

 and slightly sub-foliated, the fascicle of hairs under the 4th joint very 

 small ; prothorax shagreened, sub-cylindrical, impressed transversely at 

 base and apex, and slightly grooved longitudinally in the centre, spinose 

 at the apex of the suture, opaque with moderately broad, brassy 

 punctures and with six or seven small yellow spots on each side, 

 arranged as follows : — one, comma shaped, under the scutellum, and 

 another one, very faint, a little lower down, four in a row, the basal one 

 also comma shaped, and another one in the disk outside the others ; 

 sides of thorax and pectus clothed with white hairs ; tarsi not grooved. 



Length, 13-16 ; width, 5-6™-™* 



Closely allied to B. Bianconi ; the 4th, 5th, 6th, and 7th joints of 



antenna3 are not so much dilated, and the yellow spots on the elytra 



are more numerous. 



Transvaal (Potchef stroom) . 



B. coMPRESSicoRNis. Bohem. 



^: Ofvers. Vet. Ac Forh. I860, p. 4. 



Metallic black on the upper part, dark blue with a greenish tinge 

 underneath ; palpi yellowish, the apical joints dark blue ; labrum 



