1892.] of iM Coleoptera of Souih Africa. 45 



Length, 11 ; width 4^-™- 

 Mozambique (teste Chaad.) Eikatla. 



SECTIOX F. 



C. EEGALIS, Tej. 



Spec, v., 1831. p. 251. 

 Casteln. Hist. d. Ins, L. p. 15, pi. 1, ag. 6. 



Labrum yellow, triangular apically, with a long median tooth : three 

 equi-distant setigerous punctures on each side ; head and prothorax 

 brassy ; elytra broad, with the outer sides neariy parallel, hardly 

 convex, finely shagreened, very dark-blue or dark-bronze, with two 

 sub-triangular pale-yellow ba^al patches on each side of the suture and 

 four broad patches on each elytron : the first comma-shaped basal 

 patch is alongside the scutellum, and its lower part often coalesces 

 with the second one which runs for a short distance along the suture ; 

 the humeral patch is slanting and rounds off the humeral angle, the 

 other three patches, median, post median and apical, are very broad and 

 tranverse ; underside dark -blue, very shining, sides covered with dense 

 white hairs. 



Length, 17-17t ; width, T"^-"^- 



This species, which has no ally, has a very wide range in Africa ; 

 it is recorded from Senegal. My South-African examples have been 

 captured on the Zambeze River at the junction of that river with the 

 Shire (F. C. Selous), Gazaland (Ft-ev. Junod), and Tette (teste King). 



SECTIOX a. 

 C. DoxGOLEXSis, King. 



Symb. physic. IIL 

 C. FIMBRIATA, Dej. Spec. V. p. 241. 



Brassy on the upper part, underside metalhc red with a faint bluish 

 tinge ; labrum very long, triangular, ending in the apex in a very long, 



