Descriptive Catalogue of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 
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nate, curved at the base, dilated towards the apex and diagonally truncate 
there, the apex being very sharp. In the female the tarsi and the spurs 
are simple. 
This species greatly resembles C. gigas, Fabric, from Senegambia, but 
differs in the sculpture of the head and prothorax, the latter being also 
more elongated, and in the shape of the basal joint of the anterior tarsi 
and of the inner spur of the intermediate tibiae. 
There can be no doubt that the Ilaag's and Maklin's species are 
one. They vary in size and colour, but the sexual characters of the males 
are the same in all three. 
Length 10-27 mm. ; width 4-9 mm. 
Hab. Transvaal (Pretoria, Pietersburg, Waterberg, Eustenburg, 
Middle Limpopo) ; Damaraland ; Ovampoland ; Southern Ehodesia 
(Plumtree, Enkeldoorn) ; German East Africa. 
In the examples from the Transvaal the elytra have often a greenish 
tinge. 
Cyaneolytta signifeons, Fahr., 
Ofv. Vet. Ak. Forh., 1870, p. 353. 
co^lestiria, Haag.-Eut., Deutsch. Entom. Zeit., 1880, p. 61. 
Cyaneous blue, lighter on the elytra, clothed with a very short, but 
dense, appressed black pubescence, legs and antennae very dark blue ; 
head and prothorax covered with contiguous, deep but small foveolate 
punctures, in the frontal part of the former is a minute red patch altogether 
wanting in the male ; the prothorax is slightly longer than broad, mode- 
rately attenuate in the anterior part, plainly grooved in the centre from 
base to apex, the basal median impression is not very deep and the sides 
of the base are smooth ; scutellum finely aciculate ; elytra elongated, very 
little ampliated behind, closely and finely aciculate shagr^ened, and bear- 
ing each three very weak costules ; metasternal red patch in the shape of 
a very broad, triangular macule in the male, and of a median longitudinal 
red line, often almost obliterated in the female. In the male the basal 
joint of the anterior tarsi is moderately dilated but not spongy underneath, 
and the inner part of the first joint of the tarsi of the intermediate legs is 
deeply emarginate inwardly from the base to the middle, and the outer 
spur is simple, long. 
Length 17-25 mm. ; width 5-7f mm. 
Hab. Cape Colony (Barkly West) ; Transvaal (Eustenburg) ; Bechuana- 
land (Kenya, Eamoutsa) ; Southern Ehodesia (Bulawayo, Salisbury, Plum- 
tree, Enkeldoorn, Victoria Falls). 
I have seen Eutenberg's type of C. coelestina. 
