502 Descrii)tive Catalogue [1896. 



along which it runs without invading the suture ; under side piceous ; 

 legs flavescent, with the knees and tarsi infuscate. Length 15 mm. ; 

 width 6 mm. 



Hah. Zambezia (Manicaland) , N'Gamiland. 



Chl^enius nitidiceps, Dej., 

 Spec. Col., ii., p. 342. 



Head glowing red, seldom bright green ; antennae, palpi, and legs 

 reddish brown or chestnut colour ; prothorax very nearly as broad 

 at the apex as at the base, with the outer sides regularly ampliated 

 in the centre, very closely punctured, pubescent, dark greenish 

 bronze ; elytra elongated, broader at the base than the prothorax, 

 slightly ampliated behind, deeply striated, with the intervals slightly 

 convex, shagreened and thickly pubescent, black, opaque, without 

 any yellow markings ; under sidecyaneous black, iridescent. Length 

 13-13|- mm. ; width 5-5 J- mm. 



Hah. Cape Colony (Cape Town), Natal (Eshowe), Delagoa Bay 

 (Eikatla). 



Chl^enius pubebulus, Bohem., 

 Insect. Caffr., i., p. 156. 



Head, prothorax, and elytra metallic green, moderately shining ; 

 the elytra with a short, very dense yellowish pubescence ; the 

 labrum, palpi, and three basal joints of antennae yellowish red, the 

 other joints light testaceous red ; head shining ; prothorax very 

 slightly narrower at the apex than at the base, ampliated laterally 

 in the middle, but a little less than in the preceding species, 

 closely and deeply punctured and slightly pubescent ; elytra elon- 

 gated, nearly subparallel, broader than the prothorax at the base, 

 narrowly striate, with the intervals very plane, finely shagreened, 

 subopaque green with a thick, short, yellowish pubescence, outer 

 margin often cyaneous ; under side cyaneous, iridescent. Length 

 11 mm. ; width 5 mm. 



In colouring and general facies this species approximates much 

 C. fulvipes, but the prothorax is narrower and the elytra less roughly 

 shagreened and more pubescent. 



I have seen only one of Boheman's type (a female, the palpi of 

 which are more acuminate at the tip than in the same sex of fulvipes) 

 labelled Caffraria. 



Chl^nius signatus, Bohem., 

 Insect. Caffr., i., p. 139. 

 C. apiatus, Klug, Peters' Eeise n. Mossamb., p. 163, pi. ix., fig. 10. 

 Head and prothorax dark green, moderately shining, very briefly 



