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M, L. Peringuey's Descriptive Catalogue [Nov. 30, 



labrum long, semi-circular with a moderately long median tooth, 

 yellowish-white, with two setigerous punctures on each side of the 

 median tooth, and one in the anterior angle ; head and prothorax 

 with a few erect setas, the latter rounded, short, very slightly ■ pilose 

 on the outer margin and underneath, the hair greyish but not de- 

 cumbent ; elytra quadrate at the base, a little ampliated in the female, 

 closely punctured with the punctures moderately deep, each elytron 

 with a broad yellowish spot at the base on the humeral angle, a 

 smaller one past the median part of the disk and a little nearer to 

 the outer margin than to the suture, and a smaller one below it, 

 nearer to the suture than to the outer margin. 



Length, 10-14 ; width, 5-6^^-'^- 



as the green. 



The reddish-bronze variety is nearly as common 

 Neighbourhood of Cape Town. Has not been recorded, to my knowledge, 

 from any other locality. 



Mountain slopes and grassy plains. Occurs from August to 

 November. 



SECTION C. 



Elytra with the bands and spots well defined and moderately 

 broad lurida. 



Elytra with the bands and spots very broad Namaqua. 



Elytra with the bauds very narrow, the humeral band 

 interrupted, and no immediate spot oh suture tenui^picta. 



C. LURIDA, Fabric. 



Spec. Insect, 1, p. 284. 

 Oliv. Entom. 11, 33, p. 18, pi. 3, fig. 35. 

 C. VIDUA. Gory. Ann. Franc, 1833, p. 174. 



Dark-bronze, sometimes bronzy-green on the upper part ; labrum 

 elongated, strongly tri-dentate at the apex, with two setigerous 

 punctures on each side of the median tooth, and one in the anterior 

 angle ; head and prothorax hardly pilose except on the sides of the 

 latter ; elytra much broader than the prothorax with the base square, 



