512 Descriptive Catalogue [1896. 



Chl^nius robustus, Bohem., 

 Insect. Caffr., i., p. 155. 



Shape, size, and sculpture of C. Icetus, the colour of the labrum, 

 palpi, and legs is darker brown ; the head and prothorax are green, 

 shining, and the elytra, instead of being opaque black, are olive- 

 green with a moderate sheen, the outer margin is black, pubescent, 

 and the epipleurse dark reddish brown. Length 17 mm. ; width 

 7 mm. 



Hab. Transvaal (Maghalisberg) teste Bohem. 



The only example of this species I have seen is Boheman's t}^e. 



Chl^enius cyanipennis, Bohem., 

 Insect. Caffr., i., p. 155. 



Head and prothorax glowing red ; labrum, antennae, and legs 

 dark brown, almost piceous ; head nearly smooth ; prothorax as 

 broad at the apex as at the base, equally attenuated laterally in front 

 and behind, with the median part slightly ampliated, hairless, with 

 a few scattered punctures ; elytra only a little broader at the base 

 than the prothorax, elongated, subparallel, narrowly punctato-striate, 

 with the strige hardly pubescent, intervals raised, convex, dark 

 violaceous blue, with the basal and outer marginal part cyaneous 

 or greenish blue ; under side dark cyaneous, iridescent. Length 

 12 mm. ; width 5 mm. 



Hab. Natal (D'Urban, Frere). 



Chl^nius comes. 



An intermediate form between C. Icstus and C. cyanipennis ; the 

 head and prothorax are glowing red as in the last-named species, 

 but the prothorax is a little more attenuated in front, thus approxi- 

 mating that of C. Icetus in shape ; the elytra are punctato-striate, 

 with the intervals convex and pubescent only in the outer margin, 

 which is distinctly dark blue ; the labrum, antennae, and legs are 

 dark brown as in cyanipennis, but the prothorax and elytra are 

 longer ; under side piceous, iridescent. Length 15-16 mm. ; width 

 6-6f mm. 



Hab. Mozambique (Eikatla). ' ^ 



Chl^nius capicola, Chaud., 

 Bull. Mosc, 1856, pi. 11, p. 233. 

 G. caffer, Bohem., Insect. Caffr., i., p. 145. 



Head and prothorax green, wdth a median glowing-red tinge ; 

 labrum, palpi, antennae, and legs yellowish red ; head slightly punc- 

 tured behind; prothorax very little attenuated in front, not ampliated 



