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0. BEBVicoLLis. Wiedem. 



Zool. Magaz. 1, 1823, p. 67. 



Elongated, labrum white with two very fine setigerous punctures ou 

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

 and prothorax brassy, moderately shining, with some decumbent white 

 hairs ; elytra finely punctulated, bronze with often a blue line round 

 the dorsal markings, slightly convex, the female's not ampliated in the 

 middle, and each elytron with a small comma shaped yellowish patch 

 in the centre of the base, two elongated ones along the suture, as often 

 coalescing as not, and then forming along the suture a narrow band 

 strangulated in the middle, a humeral curved ramus, a median one also 

 curved and produced behind in a curved band, the tip of which, much 

 thickened, reaches the suture, and an apical, much curved marginal 

 band, with both ends thickened ; the median ramus is often connected 

 along the margin by a narrow yellowish streak with the humeral one, 

 and sometimes also with the postical band, in which case the disposition 

 of the dorsal bands and spots approximates to that of clathrata ; when 

 this marginal streak is wanting, the dorsal design is that of vivida, the 

 only difference being in the shape of the two spots along the suture 

 which are always more or less elongated in hrevicollis, instead of being 

 round ; underside dark-blue or greenish-blue, sides covered with dense 

 white hairs. 



Length, 9-11 ; width, ^-S*"*"* 



I cannot differentiate hrevicollis from neglecta. Dej., although the 

 latter has a very narrow outer margin on the elytra uniting all the 

 dorsal rami, this margin is also often met with in hrevicollis, and I have 

 often caught in copula examples with and without outer yellow margin. 



Cape Colony (neighbourhood of Cape Town, Worcester) ; Senegal, 

 Zanzibar (teste G-erst.). 



On sandy spots near margins of ponds, sandy paths, sea-beach. 



