1896.] of the ColeoiAera of South Africa. 491 



Bottle-green on tlie upper part ; elytra costate, lateral 

 band reaching the eighth interval capcnsis. 



Prothorax broader in the anterior than in posterior part, 

 cyaneous on the upper side, no yellow margin caffcr. 



Prothorax broad, slightly ampliated in the middle. 



Elytra subcostate, with a yellow margin, two yellow 

 patches on each side Dussaulti. 



Prothorax very rugose. 



Prothorax and elytra with a yellow margin, three alternate 

 costse narrower than the others costipennis. 



Elytra with a posterior yellow margin, intervals equal, 

 roughly shagreened . . masliunus. 



Prothorax nearly smooth. 



Prothorax and elytra coppery red ; intervals of elytra 

 nearly plane validicornis. z 



Prothorax and elytra dark green ; intervals of elytra convex consors. 



Prothorax very broad, more or less trapeziform. 

 Head, prothorax, and elytra black. 



■ V 

 Type ChlceniiLS trapczicollis. ' j; I 



Intervals of the elytra plane ; prothorax punctulate, 

 shagreened dicliroiis. 



Intervals of the elytra plane, roughly shagreened . . . . inceus. 



Intervals of the elytra costate, costse punctulate on each , fmiwzicolli^ 

 ^^^^ ( erythrcenemis. 



Prothorax smooth. 



Intervals of the elytra costate, the costee smooth natalcnsis. 



Elytra gradually narrowed from, the base to the apex, outer 

 sides straight aculeatus. 



Prothorax sinuate laterally towards the base, facies of 

 Systolocranius Cham. 



Chl^nius Zanzibaeicus, Chaud., 



Plate X., fig. 1. 



Coleopt. Novit., 1883, p. 35. 



C. (Bhizotrachclus) giganteus, Per., Trans. S. Afric. Phil. Soc, 

 1885, iii., p. 79. 



Black, moderately shining, extreme outer margin of the prothorax 

 cerulean blue, apical part of the maxillary palpi reddish brown; 

 head very closely and deeply punctured ; labrum with a broad round 

 median impression, the punctures broad and irregular ; prothorax 

 hardly broader at the apex than at the base, with the outer sides 

 regularly arcuated, not much ampliated in the middle, and about as 

 broad as long ; elytra elongated, nearly parallel for four-fifths of the 

 length, then suddenly narrowed and produced diagonally towards 

 the suture, very little convex, smooth, with the exception of the 

 broad outer margin more or less covered with a greyish short 



