154 Descriiotive Catalogue [1896. 



Elytra green, reddish at the tip abdominalis. 



Elytra green in the anterior part, purplish behind jucimda. 



Head, prothorax, and elytra reddish brown. 



Posterior part of the head much narrowed fraterna. 



Posterior part of the head straight qitadricollis. 



Stenidia elegantula. 



Head black, deeply and closely punctured in the anterior part, 

 smooth in the posterior, with the neck and apex of mandibles red, 

 the two last joints of the palpi and the three basal, and also part of 

 the fourth of the antennae reddish, the others black ; prothorax red, 

 deeply and closely punctured and without any trace of median 

 longitudinal groove ; elytra elongated, parallel, slightly convex, 

 bright metallic green, deeply pun ctato- striate, with the intervals 

 narrow and slightly convex in the central part of the disk ; legs red, 

 infuscate at the apex of the femora ; abdomen greenish black. 

 Length 7|-8 mm. ; width 2-2J- mm. 



Hah. Mozambique (Eikatla). 



Allied to S. corrusca, Laf., but less shiny, and with the prothorax 

 less deeply punctured. 



Stenidia angusta. 



The description of S. corrusca applies also to the present species ; 

 the head, however, has a more cyaneous tinge, and is very much 

 more deeply and closely punctured ; the two basal joints only of the 

 antennae are red ; the palpi are black ; the prothorax is more cylin- 

 drical ; and the elytra much narrower ; legs and abdomen as in S. 

 corrusca. Length 6^-7 mm. ; width IJ mm. 



Hab. Zambezia (Salisbury). 



Stenidia abdominalis, Chaud., 

 Bull. Mosc, 1862, iv., p. 299. 



Closely allied to S. corrusca ; it is, however, of a larger size, 

 9 mm. instead of 7^ mm. ; the facies is more robust ; the prothorax 

 is less narrowed in the anterior part ; the elytra are longer, more 

 parallel, and narrowly metallic red at the apex ; the abdomen is 

 rusty-red instead of greenish black. Length 9 mm. 



Hab. Natal (D'Urban), teste Chaud. 



Stenidia jucunda, P^r., 



Plate VII., fig. 3. 



Head black, deeply and closely punctured from the apex to the 



neck, which is red ; apex of mandibles also red ; palpi, the three 



basal joints of the antennas, and part of the fourth pale red, the 



other joints infuscated with the base reddish ; prothorax hardly 



