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interval, and two small elongated patches in the median part, one — 

 the smaller of the two— on the sixth, the other on the tenth and 

 eleventh ; under side pale yellow, subinfuscated in the centre. 

 Length 7 mm. ; width 4 mm. 

 Hab. Cape Colony (Cape Town). 



Omophkon depeessus, Klug,* 

 Monatsb. Berl. Ac, 1853, p. 237 ; Peters' Eeise, 1862, p. 163, pi. 9, fig. 9. 



Light brick-red ; antennae, palpi, and legs flavescent ; prothorax 

 with a narrow median longitudinal band and a broader transverse 

 one above the base metallic green ; elytra wath thirteen striae 

 deeply punctate ; the suture has a narrow green band narrowed 

 behind, and on each side three short basal lines of the same colour, 

 a long one on the tenth interval with two quadrate spots on each 

 side, and on the sixth interval another line beginning at about the 

 median part, connected there transversely with the sutural part, 

 and near the apex a small quadrate spot between the suture and the 

 first line. Length 9 mm. 



Hah. Mozambique (Tette). 



Teibe CAEABIDES. 



Mesosternum cuneiform in the anterior part ; prosternum produced 

 behind ; spurs of tibiae terminal. 



Gen. CALOSOMA, Weber, * 

 Observ. Ent., p. 20. 



Mentum broad, with a short median sharp tooth in the middle ; 

 inner part of the lobes of the mentum slightly slanting, the outer 

 part rounded ; ligula very short, broadly triangular at the apex, 

 having a fringe of setae ; paraglossae fused with the ligula, the latter 

 narrow at the tip and projecting slightly ; last joint of palpi short, 

 somewhat securiform ; mandibles long, sharp, striated on the upper 

 part, without any inner tooth ; labrum short, incised in the centre ; 

 antennse subfiliform, the third joint longer than the others and 

 compressed into a sharp ridge on the upper part ; prothorax sub- 

 hexagonal ; elytra subelongato-quadrate, moderately convex ; legs 

 long, intermediate tibiae curving inside ; the three basal joints of the 

 anterior tarsi dilated. 



Hah. The genus has representatives in Europe, Asia Minor, 

 China, India, the Canary, St. Helena, and Vancouver Islands, North 

 and South America, Tasmania, and Australia. 



* This description is made from the figure in Peters' Reise n. Moz. 



