78 M, L. Pkingimfs Descriptive Catalogue [Nov. 30, 



spot, and sometimes missing, and a moderately narrow line of the 

 same colour near the apex. 



Length, 16-18 ; width, 7™'"'' 



De Ohaudoir's types have no post median marginal spots, but I 

 have seen two examples in the British Museum in which these mark- 

 ings are well defined. 



Delagoa Bay. 



D. TUBERCULATA. Hope. 



Animal Kingdom, 1, 1832, p. 265, pi. 29, fig. 6, 



Brassy, moderately shining on the upper part, antenna and under- 

 side cyaneous ; head strigose, labrum of the male yellowish-white 

 narrowly edged with black, that of the female black with a median 

 yellowish band ; prothorax irregularly plicated, quadrate with the dis- 

 coidal protuberances much raised and the posterior angles very acute ; 

 elytra oblong, not much depressed on the upper part in the male, 

 convex in the female, acuminated behind, with the sutural apical 

 part a little divaricating and slightly spinose ; they are covered with 

 closely set punctures, and have on each side a short ridge running 

 from the base to one-fourth of the length, a dorsal one consisting of 

 four oblique disconnected ridges and an external uninterrupted one 

 above the outer margin and reaching from the shoulder to three- 

 fourths of the length ; in the outer margin there is a small whitish 

 dot placed at about the middle, and a small narrow line of the same 

 colour near the apex ; legs cyaneous, with the tibiae somewhat in- 



fuscated. 



Length, 15 ; width, 5™*™* 



Cape Colony (Seymour). 



I> TUBERCULATA. 



Yar. CARINULATA. Chaud. 

 Bullet. Mosc. 1860, IV., 306. 

 Brassy, or brassy-black, moderately shining on the upper part, 



