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thence broadly rounded to apex, deeply striate-punctate, 
intervals convex, densely, confusedly punctulate, sparsely 
clothed with long yellowish pubescence and, on either side, 
a broad transverse orange-yellow subhumeral patch more or 
less indented beneath, reaching a little obliquely downwards 
from the lateral margin to the second interval; a second 
much smaller, but variable in size, subapical, oval patch 
between the third and seventh strize. 
In its more elongate shape, long slender antenna, palpi, 
legs, and tarsi this insect agrees well with Bate’s definition 
of Dischissus, but this genus is described as having the 
anterior and intermediate tarsi bilobate, which is certainly 
not the case with elegans, in which they are the same as in 
Microcosmus, a little emarginate or incised. In the shape 
of the prothorax elegans approximates to M. aurantiacus, 
Chd., but the constriction to base is much more pronounced, 
and the elytra are also comparatively shorter. 
Described from three examples, all taken at light. 
Hab. Natal: Durban and Isispingo. 
Tribe CHLANTIINI. 
Chienius incandescens, sp. n. 
Length 14 mm.; width 5 mm, 
Head and prothorax glowing metallic red with some green 
reflections in certain lights; labrum, palpi, antenne, and 
legs reddish brown; elytra opaque black ; underside black 
and shiny ; pubescent above and beneath. 
Head and neck elongate, very shallowly plicate-punctate 
laterally and basally, vertex almost smooth, a few coarse 
punctures on either side of the two frontal foves, which 
are shallowly connected with a third subvertical fovea and 
together form an ill-defined V; palpi long, slender, and 
cylindrical ; antenne filiform. 
Prothorax cordiform, a little convex, declivous on either 
side to apical angles, which hardly project, posterior 
angles acutely rectangular, base and apex straight, lateral 
foveze deep and curving outwards, a well-defined transverse 
impression a little above base and extending on either side 
to the lateral margins, the median groove deep, commencing 
in a short transverse sulcus a little below apex and termi- 
nating at its juncture with the transverse basal impression, 
rugosely plicate-punctate, sparsely pubescent, the punctures 
below the subbasal impression deuser and deeper, and the 
pubescence longer. 
