1892.] of ilie CoUoptera of South Africa. 35 



the type, and the white background is therefore not so conspicuous. 

 Were it not for the pecuUar shape of the elytra, which as well as in 

 the type form, are more rotund in the centre and attenuated behind, 

 it would be well nigh impossible to distinguish lierero from dathrata. 



Length, 10 ; width, l'"-""* 



Communicated by Professor C. Aurivilius of the Stockholm 

 Museum. 



D am ar aland. 



C. Damara. new spec. 



« 



pi. 1, fig. 3. 



Labrum convex in the centre, triangular in front, tri-dentate at the 

 apex ; the median tooth long and sharp, tw^o setigerous punctures on 

 each side of the median tooth, and another one in the anterior angle ; 

 head and prothorax pilose ; elytra elongated, nearly plane on the 

 upper part, closely but not deeply punctured, pale-yellow ; the suture 

 and the outer margin with a fine narrow dark-blue metallic line, a 

 dark-bronze supra humeral, arcuated band, four or five punctures near 

 the suture and a sinuated postical ramus, the apical end of which is 

 often only left, on each side ; underside greenish-blue, thickly 

 tomentose laterally. 



Length, 11-12 ; width, d""""* 



Sandwich Harbour. 



0. NiLOTiCA, Dej. 



Spec. 1,1825, p. 119. 



Klug. Symb. phys. Ill, 1832, t. 21. fig. 4. 



Labium transverse, narrow, hardly sinuated in front, yellowish- 

 white with five setigerous punctures on each side of the median tooth, 

 which is hardly defined ; head and prothorax pilose ; elytra sub- 

 quadrate, hardly convex, each one with a longitudinal dorsal line near 



