44 i/. L, Peringim/s Descriptive Catalogue [Nov. 30, 



part of the disk, a triangular patch past the middle, and a postical 

 one on the apical margin. 



Length, 15 ; lat. 5^""™' 



Transvaal (Barberton). 



SECTION E. 



Marginal band of elytra broad, median ramus well defined Monteirni. 



Marginal band of elytra very narrow, median ramus hardly 

 defined Bertolonii. 



0. MoNTEiROi, Bates. 



Cist. Entom., vol. II., p. 331. 



Labrum yellow, very much elongated, acutely five-dentate with one 

 deep setigerous puncture on each side of the median tooth and one in 

 the anterior angle ; head and prothorax very pilose ; elytra elongated, 

 very dark bronze, marginated with pale-yellow all round, base included, 

 each one with a short line below the scutellum, connected with the 

 basal margin, the lateral margin emits a short acute tooth, a median 

 ramus directed towards the suture and a blunt inflation above the apical 

 part ; underside and sides of abdomen thickly covered with white hairs. 



Length, ll-llj ; width, 4-4i"^-™- 



Bate's description was evidently from an example in which the 

 median lateral ramus was not produced obliquely behind towards the 

 suture. I have seen examples from Lourengo Marques in which the 

 median ramus is well-defined but the diagonal line it emits is very 

 narrow. 



Delagoa Bay (Lourengo Marques, Rikatla.) 



Var. Bertolonii. Chaud. in litt. 



The undescribed species under that name which I saw in Chaudoir's 



collection, labelled Mozambique, is similar in shape, size and colouring 



to Monteiroi, but the marginal band is very much narrower, and the 

 central ramus is hardly defined. 



