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the prothorax in this species is as marked as that referred to 
in C. effugiens, and the shape of the palpi is not even 
mentioned. 
Hab. Krantzkloof (male) ; Durban (female)—taken by 
H. W. Bell-Marley. 
Chlenius (Vertagus) fenestratus, Chd. 
This species has been placed by Dr. Péringuey in 
synonomy (as a variety) with Chlenius bohemani, with which, 
if my examples of C. fenestratus have been rightly deter- 
mined *, it has no close affinity. 
Many of the differences which I have pointed out between 
C. bohemani and C. durbanensis, m., recur as between 
C. bohemani and C. fenestratus, chief of which is the 
dissimilarity in their respective palpi. 
Comparing females (fenestratus, 3) with females (bohemani, 
2)—for unfortunately I have no male examples of fene- 
straius before ne—the following discrepancies occur :— 
C. bohemani. C. ( Vertagus) fenestratus. 
Palpi.—Labials moderately dilate, 
squarely truncated. 
Maxillaries very slightly 
dilate, squarely tiun- 
cated, 
Head.—Nobust, nearly as broad 
as long, densely punc- 
tate over whole surface. 
Prothorax.—_As wide at apex as 
at base, coarsely sub- 
confluently punctate. 
Elytra.—Subparallel in both 
sexes, supra-apical spot 
sinuate, diagonal. 
Underside.—Sternal parts ru- 
gosely coarsely punc- 
tate, abdomen shiny 
black. 
Broadly securiform, diagonally 
truncated. 
Dilated, diagonally truncated. 
Slender, decidedly longer than 
wide, very finely plicate-punc- 
tate, vertex nearly smooth. 
Narrower at apex than at base, 
closely, simply punctate. 
Females a little ampliated to 
beyond middle, spot ovate 
covering intervals 4-7. 
Trregularly shallowly punctate, 
very shiny and iridescent. 
When, added to the above, the differences in the coloration 
of the legs and antenne are taken into account, it is difficult 
to conceive on what grounds Dr. Péringuey should have 
lumped them together—the more so, as both being the 
creations of one author (Chaudoir), he must have had the 
types of the one to compare with the other, and doubtless 
* An example has been, since writing the above, compared with 
examples so labelled in the British Museum Collection, and teste H. KE. 
Andrewes they are identical. 
