1892.] of the, GoUo'ptera of South Africa. 47 



Each elytron with a discoidal ante-median dot, a median 

 crescent shape patch sending a small curved line,ia small mar- 

 ginal postical dot, and two apical patches. dUsimiUs. 



C. MELANCHOLICA, Fabric. 



Syst. Eleuth. 1, p. 236. 



C. ^GYPTiACA. Dej. Spec. I., p. 90. 



Klug. ^jmb. phys. III., pi. 21, fig. 7. 



Guer. Mag. Zool. 1845, p. 12, p. 161, fig. 1, a. 



C. LUDIA. Dej. Spec. V., p. 244. 

 C. MICEOSTICTA. Klug. Peter's Eeis., 1862, p. 147. 

 C. CONGRUA. King. Monatsb. Berl. Ac. 1853, p. 245 ; 



Peter's Eeis. 1862, p. 148, pi. 9. fig. 2. 

 C. TANTILLA. Bohem. Of v. Vet. Ac. Forh. 1860, p. 6. 



Greenish bronze, shining but little on the upper part and bright 

 greenish blue underneath ; labrum short, nearly transverse, slightly 

 tri-dentate at the tip, pale yellow with one setigerous puncture on 

 each side of the median tooth, and one in the outer angle ; head 

 aciculated, prothorax short, finely rugose and with a few decumbent 

 white hairs on the outer sides ; elytra elongated, slightly ampliated 

 past the middle in the female, closely punctured with the punctures 

 bluish, the female with a smooth, shining, irregular patch on each 

 side of the anterior part of the disk ; each elytron has a humeral 

 narrow white band rounding the angle and followed by a small 

 discoidal dot, a median narrow marginal band reaching from below 

 the humeral line to the posterior third part, and emitting at about the 

 middle a short narrow line a little thickened at the tip, and sometimes, 

 although seldom, connected by a still narrower line with a round spot 

 below it, and an apical marginal line the tip of which is connected with 

 a minute dot placed a little below the second dorsal one ; underside 

 clothed laterally with white decumbent hairs. 



Length, 8 to 11 ; width, 3-4i™""* 



H. congrua and C. microstida cannot be considered even as varieties, 

 and judging from the description, I take G. tantilla, Bohem. to l)e only 

 a small example of melancholica. 



