1892.] of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 33 



punctures of the labrum, hairiness of the head, prothorax and under 

 part identical, but the bronze bands of the elytra are narrower, the 

 median oblique ramus is generally wanting in the male, and often 

 reduced to a mere dot in the female ; the bronze bands often turn to 

 metallic black. 



Length, 11-13; width, 5-6™-™* 



Common on the sea-beach near Port Elizabeth. Boheman gives the 

 interior of CafPraria as the habitat of his G. harUfrons , It was very 

 likely captured by Wahlberg at Port-Elizabeth, at the same time as 

 Mantichora tibialis and Microlestia rugosopundata. 



The types of Dejean are two males in which the longitudinal band 

 and the supra-humeral one are left, and are thus shaped like a Y, and 

 with a small dot underneath, evidently the apical end of the postical 

 ramus. 



Var, Elizabeths. 



Shape, size and colouring of chrysographa, but a little smaller ; 

 the elytra are white with a narrow golden suture, two narrow, short 

 bronze bands at the base, and sometimes a very faint trace of a postical 

 ramus on the female. 



Length, IQi-ll ; width, 4-5™'™* 



Cape Colony (Port Elizabeth). 



C. CANDIDA. Dej. 



Spec. 1, 1825, p. 123. 

 C. MIXTA. Chaud. 

 Ann. d. Franc. 1835, p. 436. 



Labrum yellowish-white, wide in length, narrow in width, slightly 

 tri-dentate in the male, the median tooth strongly developed in the 

 female, two small setigerous punctures on each side of the median 

 tooth and one in the anterior angle, palpi with the exception of the 

 ultimate joints, and outer part of mandibles, yellowish-white ; pro- 



