66 M, L. Peringuey^s Descriptive Catalogue [Nov. 30, 



M. Bi-LUNATA. Dohrn. 



Stett. Ent. Zeit. yoI. XLIV., 1883, p. 278. 



Dark metallic blue-black, almost opaque on the upper part ; head 

 strigose, labrum of male white with the base and apex narrowly 

 (dged with black, that of the female black and edged laterally with 

 white, head strigose ; prothorax cylindrical, plicated obliquely ; elytra 

 of the male more deeply pitted than those of the female, each with 

 a median series of deeper fove^ with a golden tinge reaching from 

 the base to a little past the n.iddle, apical sutural teeth of the male 

 very long and sharp, those of the fennale very short, very little 

 ampliated from past the middle in the male, much more in 

 the female and ^ith each elytron having a supra-marginal bioad 

 white band reaching from below the shoulder to the middle in the 

 male, but shorter in the female, another one reaching from past the 

 middle to the apex, and also a distinct crescent-shaped post median 

 dorsal patch, the points of which are directed towards the base. 



Length, 15-18; width, 4.5'°-'"- 



Country between Limpopo and Zambeze (T. Ayres), Zambeze 

 River (Dr. Bradshaw). 



M. Erikssoni. Paring. 



Trans. South. Afric. Philos. Society, 1892/ p. 5. 



Brassy-green, shining, with the underside steel-bhie ; head strigose, 

 labrum entirely black ; prothorax, long, cylindrical, finely plicated 

 obliquely ; elytra very closely and nto'owly pitted, with a faint series 

 of broader spots on each side of the suture, a little ampliated past 

 the middle with the suture ending in two short spines at the apex, 

 and each one having at about the middle of the disk a diagonal 

 yellowish-white patch directed towards the outer margin where it 

 coalesces with a broad supra-marginal band of the same colour 

 reaching from past the middle to the apex. Male unknown. 



