32 M. L. Pkinguey's Descriptive Catalogue [Nov. 30. 



Elytra with a narrow dorsal line on each side, three rami 

 and an elongated sub-postical patch : nilotica. 



Elytra with the same markings as nilotica, but more elon- 

 gated, and the dorsal bands narrower : nitidula. 



C. Capensis, Linn. 



Syst. Natur. 17, 1735, II,, p. 657. 

 Oliv. Ent. 11, 33, p. 19, t. 1, fig, 11, 



Labium wide, slightly sinuated on the anterior part with a small 

 median tooth, three small setigerous punctures on each side of the 

 tooth, and a larger one in the anterior angle, palpi with the exception 

 of the ultimate joints and outer part of mandibles at the base, white ; 

 head and prothoiax brassy, glowing-red underneath, covered with 

 thick decumbent hairs ; elytra broad, much ampliated past the middle 

 in the female, moderately conveX; rugose, white with a narrow sutural 

 bronze line, a longitudinal band reaching from the base to two-thirds 

 of the length, and three short oblique rami disconnected with the 

 outer margin and a round postical spot of the same colour on each 

 side ; the first ramus, a humeral one, and the second, a median one, 

 coalesce with the longitudinal band, the third one is thickened at both 

 ends, the hind one ending under the longitudinal band, but very seldom 

 connected with it, and the round spot is above the outer margin, where 

 the postical rounding begins ; underside dark-blue, sides of abdomen 

 thickly set with white hairs. 



Length, 12-14; width, 5-7"""^' 



Cape7isis is very common from October to April on the sandy sea- 

 shore, but is seldom met with even one mile inland. 



Cape Colony (neighbourhood of Cape Town, False Bay, Berg River). 



Yar. CHRYSOGRAPHA, Dej\ 



C. chrysographa, Dej. Spec. 1831, Y. p. 254. 

 C, barbifrons, Bohem. Ins. Caffr. T, lSi8, p. 12. 



Shape and colouring of the type-foim, but a little smaller, setigerous 



