1896.] of the Coleoj^tera of South Africa. 199 



Callida silvicola. 



Elongated ; antennae red, tipped with black, the three first joints 

 totally red ; head and pro thorax dark red, the latter short, longer 

 than broad by one-third ; elytra elongated, striated, with the inter- 

 vals slightly convex, and with moderately deep punctures, very 

 dark green, shining, edged narrowly all round with yellowish 

 red, and with a narrow sutural line of the same colour, not at all 

 dilated at the base ; under side and legs red. Length 10 mm. ; 

 width 3 mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony. 



This interesting species has been communicated to me by Prof. 

 C. Aurivilius, of the Stockholm Museum, and is labelled Cape 

 Colony — Victorin. It has probably been captured near Knysna. 



Callida eufocincta, Motsch., 

 Buh. Mosc, 1864, iii., p. 237. 



Size of C. chloroptera, Dej., but a little smaller; prothorax more 

 elongated and narrower, moderately depressed, shining and red ; 

 elytra green, very narrowly edged with red, deeply crenatostriate, 

 with the intervals convex and slightly unequal, the third one with 

 two punctures; abdomen infuscated; head elongated, triangular, 

 smooth, rugulose between the antennae ; eyes prominent, ashy grey ; 

 prothorax as broad as the head, narrow, attenuated behind, with the 

 outer margins recurved and rugulose, deeply grooved in the centre, 

 the posterior angles straight, with the tips obtuse. Length 10 mm. ; 

 width 3 J mm. 



Hah. Cape of Good Hope. 



De Chaudoir observes (Monogr. d. Callid., p. 107) that this species, 

 which he had not seen, is, judging from the description, very closely 

 allied to C. angustata, Dej., from Senegal. 



Gen. LIPOSTEATIA, Chaud., 

 Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg., xv., p. 101. 



All the characters of this genus are those of Callida, except the 

 shape of the fourth joint of the tarsi, which is deeply emarginate 

 instead of bilobate. 



Synopsis of Species. 

 Elytra green or blue. 



Head black, the neck red . . elongata. 



Head totally red cyaniventris. 



Elytra ferruginous picea. 



