1896.] of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 505 



Chaudoir in his description of C. togifer says that the yellow 

 margin reaches the seventh stria instead of the sixth ; such is not 

 the case in all the examples I have seen, including three type 

 specimens captured by De Castelnau. Chaudoir' s specimen was 

 from Delagoa Bay. Dr. Gestro, of the Genoa Museum, has very 

 kindly sent me the typical C. togifer. Chaudoir had not seen 

 Boheman's type of limhipennis. 



Chl^nius ceibricollis, Dej., 

 Spec. Col., v., p. 644. 



Head and prothorax bright green, thickly pubescent ; labrum, 

 palpi, and legs pale yellow ; head deeply and closely punctured all 

 over ; prothorax gradually ampliated laterally from the apex to about 

 the median part, with the posterior part much narrowed, slightly 

 convex in front, and with the outer margins rounded, and set with 

 regular, deep, close punctures ; elytra elongated, subparallel, narrowly 

 punctato-striate, with the intervals somewhat shagreened and briefly 

 pubescent, violaceous green, with a yellow outer margin reaching 

 from the shoulder to the suture, extending laterally to the sixth 

 stria, broader in the apical part, with the upper edge of the posterior 

 margin somewhat jagged ; under side black, very iridescent ; abdo- 

 men with a moderately narrow lateral margin and a broader apical 

 one. Length 9 mm. ; width 4 mm. 



Hah. Damaraland (Omaruru), Cape Colony (Grahamstown), 

 Natal (Escourt). 



Chl^enius limbatus, Wiedem., 

 Germar's Mag. Entom., iv., p. 112. 

 C. amictuSf Dej., Spec. Col., ii., p. 317. 



Head and prothorax bright green, very briefly pubescent ; labrum, 

 palpi, antennae yellowish ; head finely aciculate behind ; prothorax 

 as broad as long, not much ampliated on the sides and slightly 

 narrowed in the posterior part, covered with closely-set, not very 

 deep punctures, the edge of the outer margins flavescent ; elytra 

 very little broader at the base than the prothorax, elongato-ovate, 

 narrowly punctato-striate, with the intervals finely punctulate and 

 pubescent, greenish bronze, moderately shining, with a marginal 

 yellow border reaching from the shoulder to the apex, extending as 

 far as the fifth, seldom the sixth, stria, with the apical border broader 

 than the lateral one and somewhat jagged on the upper edge ; under 

 side black, subiridescent ; abdomen with a very narrow yellow apical 

 margin. Length 10-|~11 mm. ; width 4^ mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Cape Town, Stellenbosch, Paarl, Worcester, 

 Albany) . 



