52 M. L. Peringuey's Descriptive Catalogue [Nov. 30, 



than the first, but is produced at the tip into a short, curved, ramus 

 reaching nearly the suture, the third one above the apical part is very 

 short and blunt ; sides of the pectus with a whitish pubescence ; legs 

 bristly. 



Length, 13-14 ; width, ^-S^^*'"' 



Transvaal (Potchefstroom.; 



Damaraland (Svakop River) teste Bohem. 



C. MARGINELLA. Dej. 



Spec. d. Coleopt. II. p. 417. 



C. NiTiuiPES. Wallengr. 



Entom. Tidsk. vol. 11. p. 9, ]881. 



C. MIMAX. Wallengr. 



loc. cit. p. 10. 



Metallic green on the upper part with the outer sides of prothorax 

 and the pectus glowing red, or bronze with the underside dark-blue, 

 legs green or glowing red ; basal joints of the palpi, outer side of 

 mandibles, and the labrum yellowish white, the latter sligtitly tri- 

 dentate at the apex, aud with two setigerous punctures on each side ; 

 mandibles short, antennse with the four basal joints glowing red, the 

 others rufescent ; prothorax short, with the outer sides setulose ; elytra 

 elongated, nearly parallel, closely punctured with punctures dark-blue 

 or green, and having on each side a moderately broad yellowish 

 marginal band, throwing a very small blunt tooth in the anterior part, 

 another one, a little longer than the first, and as often as not produced 

 at the tip in a short diagonal ramus directed backwards, and a very 

 obtuse one above the apical part, where the rounding of the elytra 

 begins. 



Length, 10-12; width, SJ-S'"*"^- 



A very variable species with a wide range. In the type form the 

 median ramus emitted by the margin is often absent or but slightly 

 produced, or again only the apical point of the ramus, looking then 

 as a dorsal dot, is left. 



