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488 Descriptive Catalogue [1896. 



Synopsis of Species. 

 Totally black, with the outer sides of the prothorax and 

 sometimes the margin of the elytra cerulean ; prothorax 

 elongato-quadrate, narrower than the base of the elytra. 



Elytra with a narrow marginal blue edge. 



Prothorax very roughly and closely punctured Zamihariciis. 



Prothorax deeply but not roughly punctured ccBvuleolimhatus. 



Prothorax with scattered punctures lugens. 



Prothorax very rugose Dolirni. 



Elytra without a marginal blue edging. 



Prothorax with a few faint punctures morio. 



(Bhizotrachelus.) 

 Prothorax with the outer sides rounded in the anterior and 

 posterior part, narrower than the elytra at the base, and very 

 rugose. 



Type Chlcsnms qiiach'imaculatus. 



Elytra with two quadrate yellow patches on each side . . quadrimacidatus. 



Elytra with one median patch sulcatiis. 



Elytra without any patch ; prothorax straight laterally . . immaculatus. 



Elytra without any patch ; prothorax rounded laterally . . erudelis. 



Elytra with one posterior transverse yellow patch . . . . viyops. 

 Elytra with two posterior yellow longitudinal lines nearly 



contiguous Erikssoni. 



(Vertagus.) 



Prothorax slender, 



Prothorax punctulate, as broad as long, more attenuate 



from the anterior part towards the middle than from the 



median part to the base, which is narrower than the base 



of the elytra. 



Type Chlcenius Bohcmani. 



Dark blue on the upper part ; elytra without any dorsal 



yellow spot Bcicliei. 



Greenish blue, with a small, post-median, ovate, yellow 

 , 1 1 . J ( Bohcmani. 



patch on each side - /. , , 



Elytra with a broad transverse yellow band reaching from 

 one outer margin to the other fascigcr. 



Elytra with an oblongo-ovate post-median yellow patch on , . • ■■,, .. 

 each side "^ crihcllatus. 



Elytra with a sinuate pale yellow patch ovampo. 



Prothorax nearly as broad as the elytra at the base. 



Elytra with a suboblique yellow patch on each side . . . . hipustulatus. 



Prothorax with apex and base equally broad, broadest in 



the middle, with the outer sides gradually rounded. 



Elytra with a yellow margin and a supra-apical yellowish 



patch. 



Type Chlcenius fnlvicollis. 



Prothorax red. 



Elytra with a supra-apical, subquadrate yellow patch on 

 each side fidvicolUs. 



Elytra with a supra-apical sinuate transverse narrow band )}ii})ius. 



Prothorax red, with two greenish bands. 



