48 M, L. Peringuey^s Descriptive Catalogue [ISTov. 30, 



The range of this species is very great. It is found in Sicily and 

 ^"orthern Africa, Egypt and Senegal, Nubia, Zanzibar, and Angola 

 {microsticta)y Madagascar (trilunaris) ; in South Africa it is recorded 

 from Tette {congrua), and Lake N'Gami {tantilla), Delagoa Bay 

 (Rikatla), and Gazaland, Transvaal (Potchefstroom), Cape Colony 

 (Tan Wyk's Yley and Carnarvon) ; also from Java, Eastern India, 

 Transcaucasia and Northern Persia, according to I)e Chaudoir. 



C. JUCUNDA, P6ring. 

 Trans. S. Afric Phil. Soc. VI., 1892, p. 4. 



Labrum white, transverse, dented in the middle, and with one 

 setigerous puncture on each side of the median tooth and another on 

 the outer anterior angle ; head, prothorax and elytra bright-green, 

 the prothorax slightly pilose on the outer sides, elytra parallel, narrow, 

 a little convex, closely punctured, with the punctures slightly blue, and 

 having on each side a humeral, slanting white line rounding the 

 humeral angle and reaching the centre of the disk, but slightly dis- 

 connected at the apical end which is thickened in the shape of a dot, a 

 marginal moderately broad band reaching from below the humeral 

 slanting line and reaching the suture, but sending at about the middle 

 a straight ramus, thickened at the tip, and reaching the centre of the 

 disk, and from there directed backwards to the third postical part of 

 the disk where it is much thickened at the end, also a short lateral 

 patch at the rounding of the wing cover above the apical part, fol- 

 lowed by a short, upright line ; underside densely clothed laterally 

 with white hairs. 



Length, 10 ; width, 4™"- 



Allied to melancholica, still more to vicina, and not to pudihunda, as 

 I have erroneously stated, (Trans. S. Afric. Philos. Soc. vol. VI., 

 1892, p. 4), but differs much from the former in the colouring of 

 the upper part, which is bright green instead of bronzy-green ; the 

 dorsal bands and spots are very much broader, pure white instead of 



