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the basal part of the fourth reddish ; legs reddish with the knees 

 black or dark fuscous ; elytra green with a bluish tinge ; head closely 

 punctate except on a small post-median smooth area, prothorax a little 

 longer than broad, moderately narrowed laterally, and not strongly 

 sinuate there, somewhat closely punctate, the punctures on the side 

 are deeper and more rugose than on the disk ; elytra punctato-striate 

 with the intervals raised and strongly tectiform on the sides, the 

 punctures very plain ; pygidium red. 



Allied to C. affinis. The shape and sculpture of the head and 

 prothorax are similar in the two species, but in C. affinis the head is 

 not infuscate, and the intervals of the elytra are more plane. 



Length 10^-lOf mm. ; width 34-3f mm. 



Hab. Natal (Verulam). C. N. Barker ; Dr. H. Martin. 



GEN. HYSTBICHOPUS, Bohem. 

 HYSTEICHOPUS VELOX, n. sp. 



Black, elytra fuscous, opaque, femora, with the exception of the 

 knees, flavescent ; head impunctate ; prothorax elongated, one-fifth 

 longer than broad, widest at a short distance from the apex and very 

 slightly rounded there, straight thence to the base, which is narrower 

 than the apex by one-fifth, the outer margins are plainly raised, and 

 the discoidal surface very faintly plicate transversely ; elytra gradu- 

 ally arnpliated from the base to a short distance from the apex, 

 where they are twice as wide as at the base, plane, costate, the costae 

 convex, highly raised but not sharply tectiform, the fine punctures 

 on the third costa very plain ; legs long, slender. 



Length 17i mm. ; width 6 mm. 



Allied to H. gracilis, Pering., the elytra of which, however, are 

 much more parallel and much narrower, but the shape of the pro- 

 thorax is nearly the same, although slightly wider at a short distance 

 from the apex. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Umtata). Eev. F. C. Kolbe. 



GEN. METAXYMOEPHUS, Chaud. 

 METAXYMOEPHUS ROBUSTUS, n. sp. 



Light testaceous, with the greatest part of the disk of the pro- 

 thorax and the median dorsal part infuscate, glabrous, shining ; head 

 and under side black ; antennal joints not quite as slender as in the 

 other species of the genus ; labrum sub-rufescent, head impunctate ; 



