1892.] of the Goleoptera of South Africa. 57 



each side instead of one, and the yellow patches are one-half the 

 size of those of the former. 



Delagoa Bay (Rikatla). 

 C. (E.) TERETicoLLis. Bohein. 



Ofvers. Vet. Ac. Forh., 1860, p. 5. 



Oblong, moderately convex, unequally covered with white setae ; 



black, moderately opaque on the upper part, dark-blue underneath ; 



prothorax and pectus with a brassy tinge ; liead closely punctured, 



plane on the upper part and with a few white hairs ; labrum large, 



light-yellow, with a triano;ular black patch from the base to the 



centre, and five-dentate at the apex ; prothorax twice as long as 



broad, sub-cylindrical ; roughly and closely granulated, slightly pilose 



and with a brassy, smooth and very shining areolet on each lateral 



side ; elytra closely and somewhat deeply punctured, with the outer 



margins brassy and shining, and with one basal median patch of 



white hairs on each elytron, and a lateral band of the same colour 



sending two very short blunt, tooth-like rami on the posterior part ; 



this lateral band which is broader behind than in the anterior part, 



probably unites with the basal patch, but the white hairs connecting 



the two are worn off in the type ; underside unequally covered with 

 whitish hairs. 



Length, 10| ; width, 3|"*"^- 



Neighbourhood of Lake N'G-ami. 



I am indebted to Professor Or. Aurivilius, of the Stockholm Museum, 

 for a drawing of this remarkable species. 



Sub-genus PRODOTES. 



0. (P.) FATIDICA. Gru6r. 



Rev. Zool. 1847, p. 4. 

 p. 1. fig. 6. 



Very dark-bronze with a slightly iridescent tinge on the elytra. 



