160 Descriptive Catalogue [1896. 



abdominal segments dark green ; legs yellowish red, with the apical 

 part of the femora broadly infuscate. Length 10-11 mm. ; width 

 2|— 5 mm. 



Hab. Natal (D'Urban, Frere), Mozambique (Likatla), Zambezia 

 (Salisbm^y). 



Deypta bee vis. 



Differs from D. coUaris in the general facies, which is short and 

 proportionally broader ; the head is more broadly punctured, dark 

 green, and has no red neck ; the prothorax is more ampliated in the 

 anterior part, and has a distinct longitudinal groove altogether want- 

 ing in D. coUaris ; the elytra are nearly parallel, short, moderately 

 convex, briefly pubescent, punctato-striate, with the intervals a little 

 convex and deeply punctured ; under side and legs as in D. coUaris. 

 Length 7 mm. ; width 2 J mm. 



Hab. Natal (Frere). 



Drypta collaris, Klug, 

 Jahrb., i., 1834, p. 33. 



Head roughly punctured, bright metallic bluish green, with the 

 neck, labrum, mandibles, and palpi red ; antennae, with the excep- 

 tion of the apical part of the first joint, which is infuscated, 

 rufescent ; prothorax cylindrical from the apex to two-thirds of the 

 length, narrowed above the base, briefly pubescent, deeply punctured 

 with an extremely narrow, hardly defined groove, and red with a 

 deep purple tinge ; elytra elongated, very slightly ampliated past the 

 middle, moderately convex, punctato-striate, with the intervals very 

 convex and rugose, bright greenish blue and very briefly pubescent ; 

 under side red ; abdomen dark blue ; legs red with the apical part of 

 femora infuscate. Length 14 mm. ; width 4 mm. 



Closely allied to D. ruficoUis, and mainly distinguished from it 

 through the more cylindrical, narrower, and longer shape of the 

 prothorax, which is also more deeply purplish red ; the intervals of 

 the elytra are also more convex. 



Hab. Natal (no exact locality). 



Gen. DENDEOCELLUS, Schm.-Goeb. 



This genus differs from Drypta mainly through the claws being 

 pectinated ; the facies is more slender, and the basal joint of the 

 antennae longer. 



Dendeocellus austealis. 



Head roughly punctured, bright metallic bluish green, with the 

 mandibles, labrum, neck, and palpi red ; antennae rufescent with the 



