486 Descriptive Catalogue [1896. 



This genus occurs also in the West Coast of Africa, Malacca, and 

 India (Deccan). 



Synoi^sis of Species. 

 Prothorax gradually ampliated from the apex to a little past tlie 

 middle, and deeply sinuate from there to the posterior angle ; base 



not produced behind ; elytra parallel elongatus. 



Prothorax almost crescent-shape from the apex to the posterior 

 angle ; median part of the base very narrow, much produced behind. Junodi. 



EUSCHIZOMERUS ELONGATUS, Chaud., 



Bull. Mosc, 1861, ii., p. 354. 



Moderately shining, thickly pubescent ; head, antennae, and legs 

 black ; prothorax bronze-green ; elytra violaceous purple ; head very 

 rugose ; prothorax also very rugose, ampliated subdiagonally from 

 the apical to past the median part, narrowed from there for a very 

 short distance and then deeply sinuate towards the posterior angle 

 which is not acute, base narrow, truncate from angle to angle, pos- 

 terior outer sides not recurved ; elytra nearly twice as broad as the 

 base of the prothorax, elongated, parallel, slightly convex, striate 

 with the intervals moderately plane and deeply and irregularly punc- 

 tured ; wings under the elytra ; abdomen piceous. Length 12|- mm. ; 

 width 5 mm. 



Hah. Natal (? D'Urban). 



EUSCHIZOMEEUS JuNODI. 



Greenish bronze on the upper part, and very pubescent, darker 

 underneath the basal joint of antennae and the legs reddish brown, 

 the other joints of the antennae and also the tarsi fuscous ; palpi 

 very securiform ; head short, very rugose, but smooth in the median 

 anterior part, covered with dense, broad, deep punctures, outer sides 

 ampliated from the apex to the posterior angle, somewhat in the 

 shape of a short, broad crescent, posterior angles recurved, very 

 sharp, basal part much constricted, hardly broader than the apical 

 one, and produced behind ; elytra convex, truncate at the base, 

 one-third broader than the prothorax at its widest, oblong, punc- 

 tato-striate with the punctures, broad and deep, intervals slightly 

 convex and roughly shagreened ; wings under the elytra. Length 

 10-10|^ mm. ; width 4^-4f mm. 



Hah. Mozambique (Eikatla). 



Tkibe CHL.ENIDES. 



Antennae slender, head not narrowed behind into a neck, with one 

 seta over the posterior part of the eye " only, epistoma with or witb- 



■^ Melanoclcs is an exception. 



