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the pubescence is slightly fulvous ; pectus and abdomen almost 

 black, the latter iridescent, the former foveolate. 



This species is, with the exception of C. (Vertagus) hacquardi, 

 the most slender of the South African species ; the shape of the 

 prothorax resembles that of C. bohcmani, but it is a little narrower; 

 the shoulders are also more rounded. 



Length 10^ mm. ; width 3^ mm. 



Hab. Southern Ehodesia (Salisbury). G. A. K. Marshall. 



CHL^ENIUS PRONUS, n. sp. 



Dark bronze-green with the head brighter green, and the outer 

 margins of the prothorax and elytra greenish-blue, the latter have 

 a narrow, apical, marginal flavescent narrow band, the legs are 

 light flavescent, and so are the three basal, antennal joints ; head 

 deeply and closely punctate, the punctures separated by an interval 

 narrower than their own diameter ; prothorax as broad as long, sub- 

 parallel, very slightly broader laterally towards the median than in 

 the anterior part, and only very slightly sinuate in the posterior 

 above the outer apical angle which is fairly sharp, it is covered 

 with punctures as closely set as on the head, but slightly deeper,, 

 the median longitudinal line is fine, and the lateral impressions 

 normal, scutellum impunctate ; elytra not wider than the base of 

 the prothorax at the base, but slightly ampliated for a very short 

 distance near the humeral part, oblong, narrowly punctato-striate 

 with the intervals almost plane, but costulate towards the apex, and 

 covered with deep, nearly contiguous punctures, the apical flavescent 

 band is confined to the marginal part, and the very short pubescence 

 is flavescent. 



In general appearance it is not unlike C. cuprcocinctus, Reich., but 

 it is much smaller, and the prothorax is much more parallel. 



Length 10-10i mm. ; width 5-5 J mm. 



Hab. Southern Ehodesia (Umtali). A. Bodong. 



GEN. ZELOTICUS, Pering. 

 ZELOTICUS UMTALIANUS, n. sp. 



Black, with the edges of the prothorax faintly bluish-bronze, 

 under side and legs very dark cyaneous and iridescent ; elytra black, 

 opaque, with four dorsal yellowish white patches, and a supra-mar- 

 ginal narrow band of the same colour ; head scrobiculate-punctate 

 in the posterior part, and with a nearly smooth median elongate- 



