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in the centre, a little more attenuated in the anterior part than 

 towards the base, closely punctured, but not deeply ; elytra elongated, 

 nearly one-third broader at the base than the prothorax, subparallel, 

 narrowly punctato-striate, with the intervals broad, plane, finely 

 shagreened, thickly pubescent, dark olive or moderately bright 

 green, with a broad marginal yellowish band reaching the median 

 part of the seventh interval, and a little broader in the posterior 

 part than laterally ; under side piceous, iridescent ; abdomen with 

 a narrow lateral and apical yellow margin. Length 18-19 mm. ; 

 width 7-8 mm. 



Hab. Upper Limpopo Eiver, Ovampoland, Damaraland. Occurs 

 also in Senegal and Kordofan. 



Chl^nius (Epomis) capensis, Gory, 

 Ann. Soc. Ent. France, 1833, p. 229. 



Head, prothorax, and elytra dark olive-green, moderately shining ; 

 labrum, palpi, antennsB, and legs rufescent ; head nearly smooth in 

 the centre, punctulate laterally and behind ; prothorax slightly 

 attenuated laterally in the anterior part, nearly straight from the 

 median part to the base, and with three irregular longitudinal series 

 of punctures on each side of the median groove, the basal impres- 

 sions very deep ; elytra about one-fourth broader at the base than 

 the prothorax, elongated, subparallel, narrowly striated, with the 

 intervals raised, carinated, hairless, and with a series of ill-defined 

 punctures on each side of the basal part, dark green, with a narrow 

 marginal yellow band reaching the eighth stria, and hardly broader 

 in the posterior than in the lateral part ; under side piceous ; abdomen 

 very narrowly marginated with yellow. Length 20-21 mm. ; width 

 7-8 mm. 



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

 Mozambique (Eikatla). 



De Chaudoir considers E. capensis, Gory, and also E. senegalensis 

 of the same author, as doubtful varieties of C. circwnscriptus ; the 

 same may be said of G. senegalensis, which is so closely allied with 

 C. velutinus, also an European species, as to be almost identical. 



Chl^nius (Epomis) caffee, Bohem., 

 Insect. Caffr., i., p. 158. 



Dark violaceous on the upper side, piceous underneath ; palpi, 

 labrum, antennae, and legs reddish ; labrum emarginate in the 

 centre ; head smooth, very slightly punctured in the anterior part ; 

 prothorax slightly broader than long, ampliated and rounded from 

 the apex to about the median part, and narrowed from there tow^ards 



