196 Descriptive Catalogue [1896. 



Callida marginicollis, Chaud., 

 Bull. Mosc, 1844, p. 365. 

 C. corclicollis, Bohem., Insect. Caffr., i., p. 36. 



Narrow, elongated, shining ; the three basal joints of the antennae 

 red ; head red, deeply punctured ; prothorax nearly as broad as long, 

 punctured, red, with the outer margins edged with dark green or 

 violaceous blue ; elytra bright green or blue, very finely striate, the 

 intervals closely and deeply punctured ; under side and legs red ; 

 pectus and abdomen violaceous. Length 9 mm. ; width 3 mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Knysna), Transvaal (Potchefstroom). 



Callida ruficollis. Fabric, 

 Syst. Eleuth., vol. i., p. 185. 



. G. erythropyga, Chaud., Monogr. d. Callid., Ann. Belg., vol. xv., 

 p. 105. 



Very narrow, elongated ; antennae rufescent, with the tip of the 

 joints infuscated and the two basal ones red ; head black, deeply 

 punctured, the extreme end of the neck reddish ; prothorax elon- 

 gated, slightly ampliate in the middle, closely punctured ; elytra 

 subconvex, green, shining, the striae closely and deeply punctured, 

 the intervals irregularly and deeply punctured ; under side red ; 

 abdomen dark blue, with the anal segment red ; legs yellowish red, 

 with the tarsi and half the tibiae and femora deeply infuscate. 

 Length 10 mm. ; width 3 mm. 



I cannot differentiate C. erythropyga, Chaud., from this species. 



Hab. Natal (D'Urban?), West Coast of Africa (Sierra Leone). 



Callida angusticollis, Bohem., 

 Insect. Caffr., vol. i., p. 38. 



Very narrow, elongated ; antennae rufescent, with the apical parts 

 of the joints infuscate, the three first joints totally red ; head black, 

 only the basal part of the neck reddish ; prothorax very narrow, and 

 but slightly ampliate in the median part ; elytra metallic green, 

 finely striate, the striae closely punctured, intervals very faintly 

 punctulate ; under side red ; abdomen blue ; legs yellowish red, with 

 the tarsi, the apical part of the femora and the apex of the tibiae 

 black, anal segment black. Length 10 mm. ; width 3 mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony, Natal (teste Chaud.), neighbourhood of Lake 

 N'Gami, Damaraland. Occurs also in the island of Zanzibar. 



Allied to the preceding species, but the prothorax is longer, less 

 ampliate in the middle, the punctures of the striae are not so deep, 

 nor are the intervals so deeply punctured. 



