92 M* L. Peringiiey's Descriptive Catalogue [N"ov. 30, 



anterior part (female) ; prothorax finely plicated, with the sides of 

 the disk slightly raised ; elytra convex, ampliated past the middle, 

 obtusely spinose at the apex, and finely shagreened ; they have on 

 each side, above the onter margin a broad yellowish band running 

 from the base to past the middle where it is produced into a short, 

 obtuse, inward spur, and continues from there to the apex, but nearer 

 to the outer margin than from the base to past the middle. 



Length, ] 3 ; width, 4|""-^' 



It is closely allied to C. coarctata, but the lateral band is broader 

 and not straight as in that species. 



Cape Colony (exact locality unknown). 



C. HAMATA. new species. 



Brassy, shining on the upper part, underside bright bluish -black . 

 head strigose, labrum yellow, narro wly edged with black in both sexes ,• 

 prothorax finely plicated, sub -cylindrical with the sides of the disk very 

 little raised ; elytra finely shagreened, convex, the suture ending in two 

 sharp spines, long in the male, very short in the female ; they have on 

 each side, above the outer margin, a yellowish- white band reaching 

 from the base to past the middle where it is produced in a diagonal 

 inward spur, and a second one, disconnected with the first, and nearer 

 to the outer margin, beginning a little below the diagonal spur and 

 reaching the apex. 



Length, 12-13 ; width, 3-4'^*"^' 



Cape Colony (Sunday Eiver). 



C. ruECATA. Bohem. 



Insect. Caffr. I., p. 21, t. 1, f.A, 1-6, 

 C. TEANSVAALENSIS. Dokht. ReY, mens. d'Ent. p. 6. 



Brassy, very shining on the upper part, underside bright cyaneous, 

 legs with the tibige reddish ; head strigose, labrum yellow, infuscated at 

 the base and narrowly edged with black at the apex in both sexes ; 



