1892.] of the Goleoptera of South Africa. 87 



0. ELEGANTULA. Boheni, 

 Insect. Caffr. 1, 1848, p. 24. 



Brassy-black, shining bufc little on the upper part, metallic-blue, 

 very shining underneath ; base of antennae reddish ; head strigose, 

 labrum yellow, very narrowly edged with black ; prothorax sub- 

 quadrate, plicated, impressed transversely in front and behind, grooved 

 in the centre, with the two sides of the disk very slightly raised ; elytra 

 elongated, shagreened, brassy black, but with the outer sides dark-blue, 

 and having on each side, above the outer margin a humeral round 

 yellowish-dot, a sub-ovate one in the middle and a narrow line of the 

 same colour at the apex ; tibise reddish at the base and apex. 



Length, 11 ; width, 3-3p-"** 



^Tatal (D 'Urban, Frere). 



C. BREViPENNis. new spec. 



Colouring and facies of G. elegantula ; the elytra are much more 

 rugose owing to the punctures being very small, deeper and confluent ; 

 they have no supra-marginal, humeral yellowish dot ; the median dot 

 and also the apical line are slightly narrower. 



Length, 11 ; width, 3"^-"^' 



Natal (Pietermaritzburg). 



I have retained for this species the manuscript name given by De 

 Chaudoir. 



0. VARIOLATA. Ohaud. 

 Catal. Collect,, 1865, p. 51. 



Brassy-black, very little shining on the upper part ; bright metallic 

 blue underneath ; head strigose, labrum of male yellow, edged with 

 black, antennae short and thicker than in the other species of the genus ; 

 prothorax strongly impressed in front and behind, grooved in the 

 centre, with the two sides of the disk convex ; elytra very convex, 



