1892.] of the Coteoptera of South Africa. 49 



yellowish-white, and there is a continuous, well-defined marginal band 

 from under the humeral diagonal line to the apical suture. 

 Only the male of this species is known to me. 



Ovampoland. 



0. Deegei, Mannerh. 



Bullet, d. Mosc, 1837, II., p. 16. 

 Cbaud. loc. cit., 1837, III., p. 3. 



Grreenish-bronze, not shining on the upper part, bright greenish-blue 

 underneath ; labrum pale-yellow, short, sub-triangular, the apex 

 slightly tri-dentate with three setigerous punctures on each side of the 

 median tooth and one in the anterior outer angle ; prothorax slightly 

 pilose on the outer sides ; elytra elongated, finely punctured, the punctures 

 greenish-blue, each elytron with a humeral yellowish- white line rounding 

 the shoulder and reaching the centre of the disk, but disconnected on 

 the disk, a crescent-shaped line disconnected with the outer margin, 

 with the points facing backwards and a round patch below it near the 

 suture, a round discoidal spot above the apex, and a very narrow apical 

 margin of the same colour ; underside densely set laterally with white 

 decumbent hairs. 



I have not seen the female of that species, which seems to be a form 

 of transition between melancliolica and disjuncta. 



Length, 10 ; width, 4'°'"'- 



Cape Colony (Burgh ersdorp), Transvaal (Potchefstroomj. 



C. DISJUNCTA. Dej. 



Spec, vol, 1, p. 98. 



C. Afeita. Thorns. Archiv. Entom. vol. 1, 1857, p. 130. 



C. CENTROPUNCTATA. Dej. Spec. V, p. 245. 



Dark bronze, very little shining on the upper part, greenish blue and 

 shining underneath ; labrum yellowish, short, sub-triangular at 

 the apex and tri-dentate in the middle with the setigerous punctures on 



