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red, the others reddish and shghtly infuscate at the tip ; head punc- 

 tulate, black, with the basal part of the neck reddish ; prothorax 

 long, very narrow ; elytra deeply sulcate, the intervals narrow and 

 moderately punctured, bright metallic green, with a broad transverse 

 post-median band extending from side to side and edged with 

 violaceous green ; under side red ; legs red, with the apical half of 

 the femora infuscate. Length 9^ mm. ; width 2^ mm. 



Hah. Natal, Mozambique (Eikatla). Occurs also in Senegal and 

 Abyssinia. 



Callida rufiventris, Chaud., 

 Bull. Mosc, 1877, p. 229. 



Allied to G. affinis, but the punctures on the head and prothorax 

 are finer and not so numerous in the median part of the head and on 

 the discoidal part of the prothorax ; the angles of the prothorax are 

 less straightened ; the antennae, with the exception of the basal 

 joint, are fuscous ; the outer margin of the elytra, also the epipleurse, 

 the whole of the under side, legs as well, are testaceous red, and the 

 apex of the femora is not infuscate ; it is also allied to C. ruficeps, 

 but in this species the elytra are narrowed towards the basal part, 

 and the apex of the femora is infuscate. Length 9^ mm. 



Hah. Transvaal, teste Chaud. 



Callida capensis, Chaud., 

 Observ. Mem. Kieff., 1847, p. 11. 



G. jiicunda, Bohem., Insect. Caffr., vol. i., p. 35. 



? G. ruficeps, Chaud., Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg., vol. xv., p. 108. 



Elongated ; antennae infuscate, with the basal parts more or less 

 reddish, the first two joints entirely red ; head and prothorax red, 

 the latter short, broad ; elytra elongated, deeply striate, the intervals 

 with moderately deep scattered punctures, bright metallic green or 

 greenish blue, marginate all round with red, and with a narrow red 

 line on the suture, broadly dilated triangularly at the base ; under 

 side and legs red ; the three apical abdominal segments sometimes 

 slightly infuscate. Length 9-|- mm. ; width 3 mm. 



The distinctive characters of G. ruficeps do not seem to me to have 

 sufficient importance to entitle it to be considered a different species 

 from G. capensis. 



In one example from the Transvaal the sutural red line is narrower 

 than on specimens from the Cape Colony, and is slightly less am- 

 pliate at the base. Length 9-|~10 mm. ; width 3 mm. 



Hah. Cape Colony (Grahamstown), Transvaal (Potchefstroom)^ 

 Bechuanaland (Vryburg). 



