1907.] Catalogue of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 397 



scutellum bluish green, quite green or golden flavescent ; elytra 

 flavous with a greenish tinge especially noticeable in the dorsal 

 part, or completely golden-yellow, the suture is plainly green, and 

 on each side are a humeral and a supra-apical greenish black or 

 dark green round patches ; under side greenish blue, or green with 

 often a slight reddish tinge ; legs seldom completely red, but 

 occasionally completely green ; antennae and palpi chestnut-brown 

 head and clypeus finely aciculate, the latter punctate above the eyes ; 

 prothorax finely aciculate, plainly punctate, the punctures somewhat 

 remote and equi-distant but almost absent in the median longi- 

 tudinal part ; scutellum with only a few, almost obliterated 

 punctures ; elytra numerously punctate, with the punctures seriate ; 

 pygidium reddish or green, and somewhat indistinctly transversely 

 plicate, outer part of tibiae plicate and punctate ; under side well-nigh 

 glabrous except the inner face of the mesosternal process, and the 

 margin of the inner face of the anterior femora ; inner part of hind 

 tibiae moderately hairy only from the base to the median part, upper 

 part not dentate. 



Female : Coloured like the $ , except that the simple clypeus is 

 reddish on the sides and on the extremity only, and even sometimes 

 nearly completely green, the whole head is somewhat coarsely 

 punctate, and the punctuation of the prothorax, scutellum, and 

 elytra is similar to that of the male, but slightly deeper ; the 

 pygidium is more plainly plicate, and the pectus very deeply 

 punctate and briefly pubescent. 



Bates has given a figure of C. quadrimaculata $ . In that figure 

 the two median teeth of the head instead of being set close 

 to each other are broadly separated, being almost equidistant 

 from the centre of the occipital excavation and from the outer 

 wall. In C. lorigera, Jans., these two teeth are contiguous 

 and median ; they are also median and somewhat longer in 

 the great development of C. homimani, but broadly emarginate 

 with the angles of the emargination very remote, and thus 

 approximating C. quadrimaculata in the minor development, 

 which I take to be C. grandyi of the same author ; C. homimani has 

 greener elytra than C. lorigera, with a distinct longitudinal deeper 

 green band reaching from the humeral to the supra-apical callus. 

 As for the numerous species described by Kolbe, Kraatz, himself, 

 whom no one will take to be a "lumper," gives it as his view that 

 C. glabrata, radei, furcata, ruficeps, poggei, and imitatrix are one 

 species. I entirely agree with him with regard to furcata, ruficeps, 

 and imitatrix, the authenticated examples of which are synonymous 

 with lorigera, Jans., and this is corroborated by the genitalia of the 



