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and closely punctured, the latter a little more ampliated in the 

 anterior part than in D. dentata, more roughly punctured, and with 

 the longitudinal median groove deeper and broader ; elytra briefly 

 pubescent, twice as broad as the prothorax at the base, a little 

 ampliated behind from about the middle, slightly convex, striated, 

 with the intervals hardly raised and finely shagreened, and the striae 

 hardly punctured ; under side dark blue. Length 8 mm. ; width 

 8 mm. 



Allied to D. dentata, but the shape of the prothorax is slightly 

 different and the punctuation rougher, the striae of the elytra are 

 hardly punctured, and the intervals almost plane and finely 

 shagreened. 



Hah. Cape Colony (Cape Town). 



Dkypta melanarthra, Chaud., 

 Bull. Mosc, 1861, ii., p. 548. 

 D. dilutipes, Motsch., Bull. Mosc, 1864, iii., p. 217. 



Dark metallic green, briefly pubescent ; mandibles and palpi red- 

 dish ; antennae rufescent, with the apical part of the first and third 

 joints black ; head and prothorax deeply and roughly punctured, the 

 latter very slightly ampliated in the anterior part, and with a very 

 distinct, median, longitudinal groove ; elytra twice as broad as the 

 prothorax at the base, very slightly ampliated past the middle, 

 moderately convex, narrowly punctato-striate with the intervals 

 convex and closely and deeply punctured ; under side dark green, 

 pubescent ; legs pale yellow, with the apical part of the femora in- 

 fuscated, and the tarsi slightly darker than the legs. Length 10 mm. ; 

 width 3 mm. 



Hah. Natal (Frere), Zambezia (Salisbury). 



Deypta euficollis, Bej., 

 Plate III., fig. 2. 

 Spec. Col., v., p. 92. 

 ? D. thoracica, Bohem., Insect. Caffr., i., p. 30. 



Head dark blue, rugose with the neck and mandibles ; palpi and 

 antennae, with the exception of the infuscated apical part of the first 

 and third joints, red ; prothorax subcylindrical from the apex to 

 two-thirds of its length, narrowed above the basal part, closely 

 punctured, without trace of a median longitudinal groove, bright red 

 with a purplish tinge ; elytra elongated, nearly parallel, moderately 

 convex, punctato-striate with the intervals very little convex and 

 broadly punctured, metallic green, briefly pubescent with the scu- 

 tellum and the basal part round it reddish; under side red; 



