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but two of these within the last five years. The list is as 

 follows: Ch, hohematii var., fenestratus (one example.) 

 C;^. (litulus (one example, at light,) Ch. fasciger (two 

 examples, at grass roots near water.) Ch. perspicillaris 

 (occasionally at light in summer, or at grass roots in 

 winter,) Ch, crihellatus (three examples found hibernat- 

 ing under stones,) Ch. ovanipo (two examples at light; 

 this species is much commoner in parts of Matabeleland,) 

 Ch. bipiistulatiis (occasionally,) Ch. vitticollis, Ch. 

 pulcheUns and its variety fmternus (all three common at 

 light and under stones,) Ch. verecundus (rare, mder 

 stones in bed of river,) Ch. cnonensis (rare). These two 

 last are much commoner at Umtali, where they have been 

 found hibernating in numbers in the bed of a river, in 

 company with Ch. kirki, Ch. quadrisignattis (one ex., 

 close to the river after heavy rain,) Ch. notahilis (amoug 

 reeds, rare,) Ch. crihricollis (common,) Ch. cijlindrl- 

 collis (common, under stones,) Ch. angustatus (common,) 

 Ch. lactus (one example,) Ch. comes (one example,) 

 Ch. rhodesianHS (recorded from Salisbury, but the only 

 example I have seen was taken at Imitali,) Ch. caffer. 

 Boh., (one example of this handsome and very rare 

 species, taken here at light. I have seen two other speci- 

 mens, one from Beira, the other from the south of the 

 Transvaal.) Ch. Mashunus (two examples, taken among 

 reeds,) Ch. validk-omis (common, often taken at light,) 

 Ch. consors (T haven't yet seen this species,) Ch. epi- 

 graph} dus (very rare, one example only,) Ch. pronus 

 (one example,) and four other species which I believe to 

 be undescribed. One of these is rather like Ch. profius, 

 but is considerably larger; two others belong to the Ch. 

 capicola-comcs group, and the fourth is a near ally of 

 Ch. vitticollis and pulchcllus, but quite different from 

 either. 



I have a single example of what T have identified as 

 Pleroticus Incidulus, taken here among reeds. It is a 

 pretty little beetle and seems to be very scarce. 



