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outer margin is similar, and the median ramus it emits is, if any- 

 thing, more quadrate, and reaches the fourth stria, the supra-apical 

 patch instead of being elongated and extending on the third and 

 fourth intervals is subquadrate, extends on the third, fourth, and fifth 

 intervals and is further away from the marginal postical band; 

 the intervals are also more closely shagreened ; under side piceous ; 

 abdomen broadly marginated with yellow. Length 11-12 mm. ; 

 width 4f-5 mm. 



Hah. Natal (Escourt), Middle Limpopo, Matabeleland, Bechuana- 

 land (Eamoutsa). 



Chl^nius coscinioderus, Chaud., 

 Bull. Mosc, 1856, p. 242. 

 C. lateralis, Bohem., Insect. Caffr., i., p. 149. 



Shape, colouring, and sculpture of C. commistus, but the prothorax 

 is more transverse, and in the elytra the outer margin extends from 

 the shoulder to about the median part as far as the sixth stria only, 

 the spur it emits there is very narrow, projecting a little beyond the 

 fifth stria, below the spur the margin is narrowed to the seventh 

 stria, and the supra-apical patch, an elongated one extending on the 

 third and fourth intervals, coalesces with the postical marginal band; 

 under side piceous, subiridescent ; abdomen with a broad yellow 

 marginal band. Length 13-13^ mm. ; width 5-5^ mm. 



Hah. Cape Colony (Enon, Pellah, Carnarvon, Kimberley), Natal 

 (Newcastle), Transvaal (Bocksburg), Free State (Hoopstad). 



Chl^nius limbipennis, Bohem., 

 Vet. Ac. Forh., 1860, p. 11. 

 C. togifer, Chaud., Monogr., loc. cit., p. 143. 



Head nearly smooth in the anterior part, very slightly rugose 

 behind, bright green like the prothorax ; palpi and legs pale yellow ; 

 the three basal joints of the antennae pale yellow, the others testa- 

 ceous ; prothorax a little broader than long at its widest, much 

 constricted near the base, the outer edges acute, covered with mode- 

 rately deep, somewhat sparse punctures, and very briefly pubescent; 

 elytra broader than the prothorax, elongated, narrowly punctato- 

 striate, with the intervals finely shagreened and briefly pubescent, 

 bottle-green, not much shiny, and with a yellow marginal band 

 running from the shoulder to the suture, extending laterally as far 

 as the sixth interval, broader in the posterior part, with the upper 

 edge of the posterior margin somewhat jagged ; under side piceous ; 

 abdomen with a very narrow yellow margin. Length 11-12 mm. ; 

 width 5-5f mm. 



Hah. Cape Colony (Klipfontein, Prieska) ; Great Namaqualand. 



