Speei'eii of Gnrn.hk\x from South Africa. 37 



/yt/fra cloii(i^;ito^ abotit one-third wider tliaii the pro- 

 thorax (Icngtli 81, luiu.), slioulders broadly rounded, sides 

 liardly percc[)til)ly arapliated to above apical declivity, a. 

 little sinuate between the outer and apical angles, finely 

 striate, intervals plane, densely shai^rcened, pubescent, the 

 [)ubesccnce longer laterally and posteriorly. 



Underside : prosternuni 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 tiie South-African specimens known to me. 



Hub. Natal : Durban. 



Chlcenius (^Ocyhatus) durbanensis, sp. n. 



Length 11-lU mm.; width 3^-4|^ mm. ( ? ? .) 



Head and prothorax above metallic blue-green, the lattei 

 pubescent beneath, darker and of a more purplish shade; 

 habrum, mandibles, raaxilhe, and palpi red, the latter more or 

 less infuscated except at tips ; antennfe — first joint and part 

 of second red, the rest infuscated. Elytra dark greenish blue 

 and bearing, on either side, above tlie apical declivity an 

 ovate tiavescent 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-grccn reflections about the prosternum. 



Head faintly punctnlated, its vertex smooth ; antennte 

 filiform, very long, and slender ; palpi — both maxillary and 

 labial much dilated and triangularly truncated in the (^ ^ ; 

 maxillaries of ? ? simply swollen and squarely truncated. 



Prothorax narrow, ehjugate, 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 



