1896.] of the Coleoptcra of SoiUh Africa. 495 



elongated spots on the fourth and fifth intervals, united by a shorter 

 one on the intervening raised interval, which said spot is some- 

 times hardly visible ; under side and legs black, shining. Length 

 16-17 mm. ; width 6-6^ mm, 



Hab. Cape Colony (Peddie), Natal (Newcastle, D' Urban), Trans- 

 vaal (Potchefstroom). 



Var. Immaculatus. 

 C. immaculatus , Per., Trans. S. Afric. Phil. Soc, 1885, iii., p. 80. 



This variety differs from the type merely in the utter absence of 

 the dorsal yellow patch on the elytra ; the three keeled intervals are 

 a little more raised than in sulcatns. Length 15 mm. ; width 6 mm. 



Hah. Cape Colony (Cape Town). 



Chl^nius myops. Gory, 

 Ann. Soc. Ent. France, 1833, p. 213. 



C. insignis, Chaud., Ann. Mus. Gen.,, viii., p. 30. 

 Var. C. Erikssoni,^eT., Trans. S. Afric. Phil. Soc, 1892, vi., p. 18. 



Black, briefly pubescent, the two basal joints of the antennae 

 rufescent ; head closely punctured ; prothorax very rugose, briefly 

 pubescent, the outer sides much inflated in the middle, and wdth a 

 faint bluish tinge ; elytra a little broader than the prothorax at the 

 base, ampliated past the middle where they are about one-fourth 

 broader than at the base, narrowly punctato-striate with the intervals 

 convex but not keeled, and covered with subtransverse, closely-set 

 setigerous punctures, making them appear briefly but thickly pu- 

 bescent, black with a bluish tinge on the outer margin and having on 

 each side a transverse supra-apical yellowish or yellowish-red patch 

 reaching from the third to the eighth stria, and extending on the 

 sixth interval further in front and behind than on the others ; this 

 patch is sometimes reduced to a short line on the fourth interval 

 connected by a mere dot, sometimes wanting altogether, with a 

 longer line on the sixth and a very minute spot on the seventh 

 (it was from this variety that I described G. Erikssoni) ; under 

 side punctulate ; abdomen and legs nearly smooth, black. Length 

 18 mm. ; width 7 mm. 



Originally discovered in Senegambia ; this species has also been 

 captured in Abyssinia ; the typical form with the broad macula on 

 the elytra I have recorded from Natal (Maritzburg) only ; the variety 

 with two yellow lines (0. Erikssoni) is from Ovampoland. 



