Species of Carabidee from South Africa. 37 
Elytra elongate, about one-third wider than the pro- 
thorax (length 8} mm.), shoulders broadly rounded, sides 
hardly perceptibly ampliated to above apical declivity, a 
little sinuate between the outer and apical angles, finely 
striate, intervals plane, densely shagreened, pubescent, the 
pubescence longer laterally and posteriorly. 
Underside: prosternum and sides plicate-punctate, pectus 
rugosely cicatricose punctate, venter aciculate-punctate, 
margins a little rougher, pectus and abdomen sparsely 
clothed with long pubescence or hairs. 
A single female example taken at the electric lights, 
Durban, 1907, by H. W. Bell Marley. Has no near ally 
among the South-African specimens known to me. 
Hab. Natal: Durban. 
Chlenius (Ocybatus) durbanensis, sp. n. 
Length 11-114 mm.; width 33-44 mm. (2? ?.) 
Head and prothorax above metallic blue-green, the latter 
pubescent beneath, darker and of a more purplish shade; 
labrum, mandibles, maxillie, and palpi red, the latter more or 
less infuscated except at tips ; antennze —first joint and part 
of second red, the rest infuscated. Elytra dark greenish blue 
and bearing, on either side, above the apical declivity an 
ovate flavescent spot covering the intervals 5-7 inclusive and 
occasionally just invading the fourth. Legs reddish testa- 
ceous; pectus and abdomen dark purplish blue with some 
metallic-green reflections about the prosternum. 
Head faintly punctulated, its vertex smooth ; antennz 
filiform, very long, and slender ; palpi—both maxillary and 
labial much dilated and triangularly truncated in the ¢ ¢; 
maxillaries of 2 2 simply swollen and squarely truncated. 
Prothorax narrow, elongate, of about equal width at apex 
and base, a little convex and declivous towards front 
angles, sides gently ampliated and rounded, margins briefly 
recurved and a very little sinuate above the posterior angles, 
densely sub-confluently punctured, median line fine but 
distinct, lateral basal fovea not deep. 
Elytra elongate, much broader than prothorax, shoulders 
sloping, sides in the males very little (in the females more) 
ampliated to beyond middle, briefly yellow, pubescent, nar- 
rowly punctate-striate with the intervals shagreen-punctate. 
Underside: glabrous; thorax and pectus coarsely but 
irregularly punctate, sides of abdomen sparsely plicate- 
punctate, a wide space between smooth and shiny. 
The outlines of the prothorax and elytra are almost 
