1896.] of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 137 



not closely set ; pro thorax deeply punctured, metallic green in the 

 centre, and with a broad anterior and lateral yellowish margin ; 

 elytra with fourteen striae on each side, with the punctures less deep 

 behind, yellowish, with the outer margin somewhat silvery, and 

 having a broad sutural metallic green band extending on each side as 

 far as the sixth stria, past the middle a short fascia reaching to the 

 eleventh and sometimes the thirteenth stria, dilated above the apex 

 as far as the seventh interval, and reduced from there to a narrow 

 sutural line which does not reach the apical part ; under side lightly 

 infuscated. Length 6 mm, ; width 4 mm. 



Hah. Cape Colony (Cape Town, Stellenbosch, Worcester). 



Omophkon picturatus, Bohem., 



Plate VII., fig. 2. 



Yet. Acad. Forh., p. 6. 



0. hottentotum, P^r., Trans. S. Afric. Phil. Soc, 1885, p. 75. 



Labrum, antennas, and legs fiavescent ; head metallic green, with 

 a triangular fiavescent patch, punctures deep and closely set ; 

 prothorax very deeply punctured, dark green, with a very narrow 

 fiavescent outer margin ; elytra with fifteen striae, the striae with 

 deep punctures and the intervals convex, ferruginous, with a broad 

 sutural bronze band reaching from the base to the apex, much 

 narrowed in the posterior part, and emitting three transverse bands 

 on each side ; the first one — a basal one — reaches the twelfth 

 interval and is broadly incised in the median part ; the middle one, 

 much narrowed on the sixth, seventh, and eighth interval, reaches 

 the thirteenth interval ; and the third one — a slanting one — reaches 

 the fourteenth ; under side pale yellow, with the median part ferru- 

 ginous. Length 7 mm. ; width 4 mm. 



Hah. Cape Colony (Fraserburg, Carnarvon), Bechuanaland 

 (Eamoutsa). Originally described from Damaraland (Kuisip Kiver). 



Omophron capicola, Chaud., 



Plate VII., fig. 1. 

 Eev. et Mag. ZooL, 1868 p. 1. 



0. australe, Pc^r., Trans. S. Afric. Phil. Soc, 1885, p. 74; ibid., 

 1888, pi. i., fig. 1. 



Light yellow ; head with a lateral triangular green patch on each 

 side ; prothorax with a broad basal green band in the centre ; elytra 

 with fifteen striae, with the punctures moderately deep, very pale 

 yellow, with a median green basal band, a narrow sutural one 

 broadening in the middle in a quadrate patch reaching the fourth 

 interval, and emitting below it a transverse fascia, somewhat 

 sinuose, reaching the ninth interval, one basal spot on the ninth 



