500 Descriptive Catalogue [1896. 



Chl^nius pulchellus, Bohem., 

 Insect. Caffr., i., p. 144. 



Head bright green ; labrum, jaws, palpi, the three basal joints of 

 antennae and legs testaceous-red ; prothorax of the same shape as 

 C. vitticoUis, with similar sculpturing and colouring ; in the t}^ical 

 form, however, the discoidal green bands are obliterated in the anterior 

 part ; shape of elytra identical, and with the supra-apical yellow sutural 

 patch similarly shaped, but the marginal yellow band is narrow and 

 of equal width from base to apex, and there is also a long lateral 

 yellow patch beginning on each side at a certain distance from the 

 humeral angle, merged with the outer margin and reaching from 

 there as far as the fifth stria. Length 7 mm. ; width 3 mm. 



Hab. Delagoa Bay (Eikatla). 



Var. fraternus. 



Chlmnius fraternus, P^r., Trans. S. Afric. Phil. Soc, 1892, 

 vi., p. 20. 



I described as a species distinct from C. pulchellus, an insect 

 from Ovampoland, which differ from the above-named species 

 mainly in having the lateral anterior yellow patch on each elytron 

 reduced to a very small, quadrate dot, extending on the fourth and 

 fifth intervals and entirely disconnected with the lateral yellow 

 margin. I have however received, since my description was 

 published, examples from Mashunaland, where the green colour on 

 the head is broadly edged with yellow, the discoidal bands on the 

 prothorax are nearly entire, and where the anterior yellow patch on 

 each elytron is more elongated (twice as long), and connected with 

 the lateral margin by a narrower confluent patch, thus bridging the 

 difference between the two typical forms. Length 9 mm. ; width 

 4 mm. 



Hah. Ovampoland (Cunene Eiver), Zambezia (Salisbury). 



Chl^nius Kirki, Chaud., 

 Monogr., loc. cit., p. 276. 



Head bronze-black ; labrum, palpi, the two basal joints of antennas 

 reddish yellow, the others deeply infuscated ; prothorax as broad at 

 the apex as at the base, ampliated in the middle, with the sides 

 regularly rounded, finely pubescent, roughly shagreened, reddish 

 yellow, with a very broad median black band reaching from apex to 

 base ; elytra elongato-ovate, hardly broader than the prothorax at 

 the base and nearly twice broader past the middle, narrowly grooved 

 with the intervals plane, pubescent, roughly shagreened, black, 

 opaque, with a narrow marginal yellow band, interrupted from about 



