.'HO ^Ir. G. C. Champion on 



streak on 1 witliin and a spot on 3 above excepted) testaceous, 

 1 elongate, conical, concave and shining within, angulate at 

 the apex ; niaxillarv palpi testaceous, black at the ti^), joints 

 3 and 4 enormously dilated, 3 arcuate, convex, concave at 

 the apex, 4 curved and concave at the base within, and witli 

 the apical portion securiform; anterior tarsi simple, 4-jointed. 

 ? . Head smaller, obscurely metallic ; antennai shorter, 

 black, joints 1-3 (a narroM- streak on 1 excepted) testaceous ; 

 maxillary i);ilpi short, slender, joint 3 very short, 4 rather 

 long, sublusit'orm. 



Hah. Natal, Frere ' and Estcourt {Miis. Cape Town, 

 Dr. Marshall). 



There are a pair of this species in the Cape Town Museum 

 and seven $ ? in the British Museum. The J was un- 

 known to Gorham. A small, nigro-sub^eneous, sericeo- 

 pubescent insect, with uniformly cyaneous or greenish elytra, 

 and the legs in part testaceous. 



2. Colotes chloropterusy sp. n. 



? . Moderately elongate, rather broad, w ideued posteriorly, 

 the head and protiiorux opaque, the elvtra shining, finely 

 cinerco-pubescent ; black, the antennal joints 1—4, the sides 

 of tiie prothorax broadly, and the anterior and intermediate 

 legs (the tarsi in part and the bases of the femora excepted) 

 testaceous, the elytra blue or bluish-green. Head much 

 narroM'er than the prothorax, obsoletely pnuctulate, bi- 

 impressed in front; antennae moderately long, joint 1 

 elongate and slightly thickened. Protliorax strongly trans- 

 verse, convex, rounded at the sides, obsoletely punctulate. 

 I'^lytra rather long, at the base scarcely wider than the 

 prothorax ; closely, strongly pnnctured. Legs not very 

 slender. 



Length 2| mm. 



Hab. S. Africa, Howick, Natal (./. P. Cregoe, in Mus. 

 Brit.). 



Two females, received by the Museum in 1903. Larger 

 and broader than Colpometopus leucostomus, $ (infra), the 

 antennae more slender, and with joints 1-4 testaceous and 

 5-11 black, the head and prothorax without metallic lustre, 

 the prothorax less narrowed behind, the elytra more strongly 

 punctured. The testaceous sides of the [)rothorax and the 

 stronger punctuation of the elytra separate C. c/duropterus 

 from C. cyanopterus, Gorh. Two allied unnamed forms 

 from Algoa Jiay, represented by ? ? only, are contained in 

 the Cape Town ^lu'scum. 



