1892.] of the Cohoptera of South Africa. 93 



prothorax sub-cylindrical with the sides of the disk slightly raised, 

 fiaely plicated transversely ; elytra elongated nearly parallel in the 

 male, the suture with two long spines, those of the female much 

 ampliated past the middle, with the sutural spines sharp and moderately 

 long, very closely and equally punctured ; they have on each side, 

 above the outer margin, a broad, yellowish-white band, broader towards 

 the apex than near the base where it begins and sends at about the third 

 part of the length of the elytra a long, diagonal spur directed towards 

 the suture, which it does not reach. 



Length, 15-16 ; width, 4-5'"'"^' 



A very distinct species. 



Transvaal (Potchefstroom) ; Orange Free State (Parys). 



0. RAMIGERA. ncw spec. 



Bronze, shining on the upper part, underside bright cyaneous, legs 

 metallic blue, with a greenish sheen, head strigose, labrum pale-yellow, 

 very narrowly edged with black in front, and with a triangular black 

 patch at the apex, prothorax conspicuously plicated transversely ; elytra 

 elongated, slightly ampliated past the middle, the suture with two long- 

 acute spines hardly diverging (male), very broadly punctured, with a 

 dorsal row of deeper, shining foveas on each side and a very broad 

 supra-marginal yellow band straight from the shoulder to about the 

 middle and directed from there diagonally on the disk, and a narrower 

 one nearer to the outer margin, beginning below the slanting part of 

 the sapra-huraeral one and reaching the apex. 



Length, 16 ; width, ^i"*'"^- 



Allied to furcata in the same manner as hamata is allied to coardata -, 

 it is, however, a little longer than furcata, the plication of the 

 prothorax is much more pronounced, the sutural spines of the male, 

 (I have not seen any female example), do not diverge so much, and the 

 lateral margin is disconnected behind. This species, collected by De 

 Wylder in Damaraland, was kindly lent me for description by Professor 

 C. Aurivilius of the Stockholm Museum. I believe I have also seen a 



