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



deeply pitted from the base to about the middle, and much more 

 narrowly and less deeply from the middle towards the apex, the suture 

 produced in two long spines ; they have on each side, above the outer 

 margin, a small median whitish dot and a narrow white line near the 

 apex ; legs metallic green with the apex of the femora and the tibiae 

 reddish. 



Length, 13 J ; width, 4"^-"^' 



Allied to (7. hrevipennis^ but larger ; the shape of the antennae and 

 of the prothorax is different, and the elytra are much more rugose. 



Delagoa Bay (teste Chaudoir). 



0. GILVIPES. Bohem. 

 Insect Caffr. 1, p. 25. 



Greenish-black on the upper part, with the outer sides of the 

 prothorax and elytra violaceous ; antennae and legs red ; head strigose 

 with the labrum of the male yellow, that of the female either totally 

 black, or with a narrow, median, obscure yellow band ; prothorax 

 finely plicated, sub-cylindrical, with the sides of the disk but little 

 raised ; elytra elongated, hardly ampliated past the middle in the 

 female, the apical spines short in both sexes, although a little longer 

 in -the male, finely and regularly punctured, and with no snpra- 

 marginal markings. 



Length, 9 ; width, 2^-3™'"^* 



Natal (Maritzburg). 



C. LEPiDA. Bohem. 



Insect. Caffr. 1, p. 23. 



Brassy-green, shining, the elytra with a bright golden, greenish 

 tinge, underside and legs bluish-^black ; head finely strigose, labrum 

 yellowish, very narrowly edged with black in both sexes ; prothorax 

 short, nearly cylindrical, impressed transversely in front and behind, 



