516 Descriptive Catalogue [1896. 



alternate intervals are narrower than the intervening ones and 

 smooth, while the others are shagreened; they are slightly pubescent, 

 moderately shining, and have a yellow outer margin reaching the 

 eighth interval. Length 13 mm. ; width 5 mm. 

 Hah. Transvaal (Eustenburg). 



Chl^nius mashunus. 



Head and prothorax dark metallic green, shining ; elytra dull 

 green, with the lateral margin bright green and the apical one 

 yellow ; labrum, palpi, legs, and the basal joints of the antennae 

 pale yellow, the other joints infuscated ; head closely punctured ; 

 prothorax broad, with the sides nearly straight, covered with closely- 

 set punctures, outer margins brighter green than the rest of the 

 disk ; elytra hardly broader at the base than the prothorax, sub- 

 parallel, somewhat convex from the median part towards the 

 apex, narrowly punctato-striate, with the intervals convex, roughly 

 shagreened, and briefly pubescent ; under side piceous. Length 

 12 mm. ; width 5 mm. 



Hah. Zambezia (Salisbury). 



Chl^nius validicoenis, Bohem., 

 Insect. Caffr., i., p. 154. 



Head and prothorax bright green or coppery; elytra with a coppery 

 tinge, greenish in the striae and in the outer margins ; antennae, 

 palpi, and legs reddish ; head faintly aciculated, shining ; prothorax 

 a little attenuated from the median part towards the apex, nearly 

 straight from the median part to the base, faintly and irregularly 

 punctulate, and shining ; elytra a little broader at the base than the 

 prothorax, subparallel, punctato-striate, very slightly pubescent in 

 the outer margins only, intervals almost plane ; under side piceous, 

 slightly iridescent. Length 13-14 mm. ; width 6-6^ mm. 



Hah. Bechuanaland (Eamoutsa), Upper Limpopo, Northern 

 Transvaal. 



C. IncidicoUis, Lafert., from Senegambia, might prove to be 

 identical with C. validicornis. 



Chl^nius consors. 

 In shape and size this species is closely allied to G. validicornis, 

 but only the two first joints of the antennae and the basal part of 

 the third are reddish, the others are infuscated, the colour of the 

 upper part is very dark green with a bluish marginal band on the 

 prothorax and elytra ; the prothorax is less attenuated in the anterior 

 part, the outer sides being nearly straight, it is closely although not 



