1896.] of the Goleoptera of South Africa. 195 



Gen. CALLIDA, Dej., 

 Spec. Col., vol. i., p. 220. 



Ligula horny, truncate at the apex, fused with the paraglosssB, 

 which are longer ; palpi moderately long ; the penultimate joint of 

 the maxillary short, conical, the last one fusiform but truncate at 

 the tip, the last joint of the labial securiform ; labrum quadrate, 

 plane, and with six setae at the tip ; mentum deeply emarginate, 

 with a trigone median tooth ; antennse slender, filiform ; the first 

 four basal joints hairless (with the exception of a long seta on the tip 

 of the first joint), the others pubescent ; head narrowed behind, with 

 a seta on each side of the epistome, another in front of the eye and 

 one behind ; prothorax more or less elongated, more or less heart- 

 shaped, deeply grooved in the centre, with the outer sides depressed 

 and the margins acute, truncate at apex and base, and with two 

 setae on each side, the first one at about the widest part of the disk, 

 and the second one at the basal angle ; elytra broader than the pro- 

 thorax at the base, slightly sinuate below the humeral angle, but 

 nearly always parallel, hardly convex, striate, with the striae punc- 

 tured and the intervals plane ; legs moderately long ; the tibiee 

 setulose ; tarsi bristly underneath, sometimes spongy, those of the 

 male with two rows of lamellae, and the three basal joints a little 

 more dilated in the male, short, nearly equal, the fourth lobated, 

 with the lobes very long ; claws pectinate, the teeth twelve in 

 number, long and sharp ; under side smooth, shining, each abdominal 

 segment with two setae in the median part, and segment of the male 

 with two setae, that of the female with four. 



Representatives of this genus are found in Africa, North and South 

 America, Java, the South Sea Islands, and Australia. 



Synoijsis of Species. 



Abdomen violaceous. 



Thorax with a narrow black margin viarginicollis. 



Thorax without a black margin ; anal segment red ruficollis. 



Anal segment black ; knees infuscated angusticoUis. 



Anal segment black ; knees and tibise black grata. 



Abdomen and pectus red. 



Elytra totally green affinis. 



Elytra green only in the anterior part, and red behind . . . . distincta. 



Elytra green, with a broad post-median reddish band . . . . fasciata. 



Elytra green, margin a be with a narrow reddish band . . . . rnfiveniris. 



Elytra green, marginate with red, and with a sutural red line 



expanding at the base capensis. 



Elytra green, marginate with red, and with a sutural red band 



narrow throughout szlvicola. 



Abdomen infuscate. 



Elytra green, with a narrow red margin rufocmcta. 



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