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very closely aciculate ; outer spur of hind tibia long and as sharp as the 
inner one. 
Length 14-22 mm. ; width 4:^-7 mm. 
Hab. Cape Colony (Cape Town, Stellenbosch, Paarl, Malmesbury). 
Canthakis nitidula, Fabric, 
Plate XXII., figs. 6, 6a. 
Syst. Entom. Append., p. 820. 
Green, briefly pubescent, with often a golden tinge on the prothorax, 
elytra glabrous, testaceous with a fleshy tinge ; palps and antennae 
black, the latter do not reach beyond the shoulders, and the short joints, 
which are sub-turbinate, are as broad at the top as long ; head very 
sparsely punctulate and having a long frontal impressed line reaching 
from the top of the vertex, which is slightly fossulate, to the epistome ; 
prothorax very sparsely pubescent, ampliate rounded laterally at a very 
short distance from the apex and sinuate above the basal part, it is 
sparsely punctulate like the head and has in the centre a longitudinally 
elongated, very plain impression ; elytra elongated, sub-cylindrical, mode- 
rately singly rounded at apex, sub-coriaceous but not punctulate, and 
having no traces of dorsal costules ; under side finely aciculate ; anterior 
tarsal joints short, sub-turbinate, intermediate and posterior little 
elongated; inner spur of hind tibiae long and as sharp as the inner 
at tip. 
Length 13-18 mm. ; width 4-5J mm. 
Hab. Cape Colony (Cape Town, Stellenbosch, Paarl, Eiversdale, 
Caledon). 
Canthaeis semilineata, Haag-Eut., 
Berl. Bnt. Zeitschr., 1880, p. 67. 
mera, Pering., Ann. S. Afric. Mus., i., 1899, p. 318. 
Dark metallic blue turning to dark green on the head and prothorax, 
elytra pale yellow with a dark fuscous, moderately broad discoidal band 
reaching from near the base to a short distance from the apex, and with 
the suture and the outer, but not the posterior, margin very narrowly 
edged with fuscous ; under side, head and prothorax clothed with a long, 
not appressed greyish and black pubescence ; elytra glabrous ; antennaB 
short not reaching quite the humeral part, joints slightly longer than wide, 
not compressed, ultimate one very acuminate at the tip ; head covered 
with deep contiguous punctures, and having on the frontal part, above 
the epistome, a moderately deep impression, epistome and labrum dark 
blue ; prothorax as broad as long, hardly attenuate in the anterior part 
and slightly ampliate there laterally, in the centre of the disk is a very 
