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sulcatus, and having no yellow markings on the elytra like C. 

 ivimacidatus, but the prothorax is much ampliated laterally in the 

 middle, instead of being subtrapezoid, as in the two species alluded 

 to. Length 26 mm. ; width 10|- mm. 

 Hab. Zambezia (Mazoe). 



Chl^nius quadeimaculatus, Bohem., 



Plate X., fig. 2. 



Insect. Caffr., i., p. 133. 



Black, moderately shining, hairless ; the three basal joints of 

 antennae slightly rufescent ; head very closely punctured ; prothorax 

 broader than long by about one-third, a little ampliated in the 

 middle, and very slightly broader at the base than in front, covered 

 with very rugose, irregular deep punctures ; elytra a little broader 

 than the prothorax, elongated, nearly parallel for three-thirds of the 

 length, narrowly striate with the intervals much raised, carinate at 

 the tip, and roughly but not deeply punctured, while the carinated 

 part is smooth, the third and sixth intervals slightly deflexed above 

 the median part, black, moderately shining with a subquadrate bright 

 yellow patch extending from the third to the sixth stria above the 

 median part of each elytron, and a supra-postical one somewhat 

 elongated extending from the fifth stria to the inner edge of the 

 outer margin ; under side hairless, shining, black, with a metallic 

 tinge ; legs black. Length 20-21 mm. ; width 8-8^ mm. 



Hab. Natal (D'Urban), Transvaal (Leydenburg, Kustenburg), 

 Zambezia (Manica). 



In one example from Eustenburg the dorsal yellow patches are 

 very narrow. 



Chl^nius sulcatus, Fabric, 

 Ent. Syst., iv.. Append., p. 443. 



C. porcatus, Gory, Ann. Soc. Ent. France, 1833, p. 220. 

 B. bimaculatus, Bohem., Insect. Caffr., i., p. 135. 



Black, moderately shining ; the three basal joints of antennae pale 

 yellow with an inner and an outer streak of black ; head closely 

 punctured, rugose ; prothorax hardly ampliated in the middle, and a 

 little narrower in the anterior than in the posterior part, covered 

 with very deep and broad irregular punctures ; elytra a little broader 

 than the prothorax, nearly parallel, narrowly striate with the intervals 

 raised, finely punctured, briefly hairy, with the third, fifth, and 

 seventh more raised than the others, carinate at the top, the carina 

 smooth, black, moderately shining, and having in the median part of 

 the ditch a subquadrate bright yellow patch consisting of two narrow 



