1892.] of the GoUoptera of South Africa, 43 



C. PUDiCA. Bohem. 



Insect. CafEr. 1, 1818, p. 8. 



Labrum elongated, convex in the centre, strongly tri-dentate, pale 

 yellow, with one deep setigerous puncture on each side of the median 

 teeth and another in the anterior angle ; prothorax slightly pilose on 

 the outer margins ; elytra elongate:!, dark bronze, with golden yellow 

 markings, broadly but not deeply punctured, each elytron with a small, 

 round spot in the base, two alongside the suture, a blunt humeral 

 ramus, a median one produced behind in a broad diagonal band, and 

 an arcuated, apical marginal band, underside glowing red, with the 

 abdomen dark -blue, the sides slightly pilose. 



Length, 12-14 ; width, 4-51™'"'' 



More robust than clathrata, and although the markings of the elytra 

 are of the same pattern, the rami are broader and more blunt, the 

 spots are much smaller and far from one another, and the colouring 

 of the marking is of a rich yellow. 



Natal (Frere). 



Var. HYPOCRITA. 



Shape and colouring of the type, the body is longer, the markings 

 of the elytra are similar, but the dorsal rami are connected along the 

 outer margin by a broad, seldom narrow, yellow band. 



Length, 15-16 ; width, 5-5*™*™' 



Orange Free State (Parys) ; Transvaal (Klerksdorp, Potchefstroom). 



Yar. RUSTICANA. 



Size, shap-e and colouring of the type ; the regularly disposed bands 

 on the elytra have disappeared, leaving only two minute yellow spots 

 on each side along the suture, three very indistinct ones in the median 



