26 i/. L. PeringuPA/s Descriptive Catalogue [Nov. 30, 



legs, tarsi and underside violaceous-blue, shining, head, prothorax and 

 lateral sides of abdomen very pubescent ; head strigose, labrum very 

 long and convex, strongly five-dented at the apex with one setigerous 

 puncture on the outer side, and two above the second teeth, yellow, 

 marginated with brown and with two triangular fuscous maculse at 

 the base in both sexes ; prothorax deeply impressed at base and apex, 

 grooved in the centre, shagreened ; elytra truncated at the base, par- 

 allel, not much convex, narrowed diagonally behind, granulated near 

 the base, and from there broadly, but not dee23ly, punctured, opaque 

 with the outer margin violaceous, and with yellow markings disposed 

 on each side as follows : suture with a broad line on each side, a small 

 dot at the base, near the scutellum, an oblique fascia very much 

 broadened triangularly at the tip, starting from the humeral angle, in 

 the male^ disconnected with it in the female, and reaching the suture, 

 below this fascia a narrow line, thickened at both ends, running 

 diagonally from about the centre of the disc towards the suture, and a 

 broad postical band rounding the apex and ascending a little along the 

 outer margin. 



In some male examples from Potchefstroom (Transvaal), the postical 

 band ascends laterally as far as the tip of the diagonal dorsal line and 

 unites with it. 



Length, 22-23 ; width, GJ-?'"""- 



Transvaal (Potchefstroom, Rustenburg.) 



Var. Beadshawi, Paring. 



Ann. and Magaz. Nat. Hist., 1888, p. 220. 



Shape and size of the typical form ; the colouring of the elytra 

 chalky -white instead of golden yellow ; the basal dot, on each side of 

 the scutellum, is wanting ; the oblique dorsal fascia is narrow, begins 

 below the shoulder, reaches the median part of the disc, and is not 

 broadened at the end, instead of the narrow line below it there is a 

 round dot, but the postical band remains the same. 



Length, 20-22 ; width, 7™-™' 



Manica, Zambeze River, Ovampoland, 



