1896.] of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 499 



punctulated ; prothorax as broad as long, suborbicular laterally, closely 

 punctured, briefly pubescent, brick-red, with the outer margins a 

 little Ughter ; elytra broader than the prothorax at the base, elongated, 

 subparallel, narrowly striate with the intervals shagreened, pubescent, 

 black, with a narrow bright-yellow marginal border reaching the 

 eighth stria and ascending shghtly along the suture, and a supra- 

 apical, subquadrate, small patch of the same colour extending from 

 the third to the sixth stria ; under side iridescent, with the lateral and 

 apical edges of the abdomen yellow. Length 12 mm. ; width 5 mm. 



Hab. Ovampoland, also Caffraria and Delagoa Bay, according to 

 Chaudoir. 



Chl^nius mimus. 



Size, shape, and colour of G. ftdvicoUis, but the supra-apical, sub- 

 quadrate patch is replaced by a transverse dull yellowish-red band 

 consisting of three slightly elongated patches on the third, fifth, and 

 seventh intervals, connected together by a short patch on the fourth 

 and sixth intervals ; the under side is also iridescent, and the abdomen 

 narrowly edged with dull yellowish red. Length 13-13|- mm. ; 

 width, 5-5^ mm. 



Hab. Mozambique (Eikatla). 



Chl^nius vitticollis, Bohem., 

 Insect. Caffr., i., p. 142. 

 C. maculiceps, Bohem., Insect. Caffr., i., p. 143. 



Head bright green, finely punctulate ; labrum, palpi, the two basal 

 joints of antennae, and the legs light brick-red ; prothorax yellowish 

 red, with a moderately broad greenish band reaching from the apex 

 to the base on each side of the median groove, finely rugose, ampliated 

 laterally on the middle, and as broad at the apex as at the base; 

 elytra broader at the base than the prothorax, elongated, hardly 

 ampliated behind, plane, narrowly striated with the intervals plane, 

 shagreened, very faintly pubescent, black with an extremly faint 

 green tinge, narrowly marginated with pale yellow (this yellow 

 margin is broader from below the shoulder to about two-thirds of the 

 length than in the posterior third part, where it sometimes disappears 

 altogether), and having a supra-apical sutural short triangular yellow 

 patch, the basal part of which extends on each side as far as the 

 third stria ; prosternum red ; metasternum and abdomen black, 

 iridescent. Length 7-7J mm. ; width 4-4^ mm. 



Hab. Natal (Maritzburg, Newcastle, Escourt, D'Urban). 



G. maculiceps^ Bohem., differs from the type merely in having a 

 broad greenish patch on the vertex of the head, which is testaceous 

 instead of being entirely green as in the type. 



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