1896.] of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 519 



any pubescence ; elytra hardly broader than the prothorax at the 

 base, with the outer sides straight, striated with the intervals very 

 convex, and without any pubescence even in the outer margins. 

 Length 20-21 mm. ; width 8-8|- mm. 

 Hah. Natal (D'Urban). 



Chl^nius erythrocnemis, Chaud., 

 Monogr., loc. cit., p. 166. 



In shape and colouring this species, which I have not seen, seems 

 from Chaudoir's description to be closely allied to G. piceus and 

 traioezicollis . 



Piceous black, more shining on the upper side ; labrum narrowly 

 edged with rusty-red, the two last joints of the maxillary palpi and 

 the ultimate one of the labial lighter than the basal ones, the two 

 basal joints of the antennae and also the femora testaceous-red, the 

 other joints, the knees, tibiae and tarsi black; head as in C. Chatn, 

 but more rugulose ; prothorax less broad and longer, slightly 

 narrowed towards the basal part but less than in the anterior part, 

 covered with moderately broad punctures a little more closely set 

 round the sides and along the median groove than on the disk ; 

 elytra slightly broader than the prothorax not quite twice as long as 

 broad, a little more ovate and more convex in the middle than in 

 C. Cham with the intervals a little less convex and covered with 

 small punctures, more closely set on the outer than on the inner 

 ones ; upper and under side faintly pubescent. Length 7 mm. 



Hab. Zululand (teste Chaud.). 



Chl^nius oodioides, Chaud., 

 Monogr., loc. cit., p. 164. 

 Oodes puncticollis, Bohem., Insect. Caffr., i., p. 164. 



It is very probable that the species described by Boheman is not an 

 Oodes, but a true GhlcRnius with an Oodidous facies, like his 0. mfipes, 

 (the specific names being preoccupied, were changed by Chaudoir), 

 and belonging to the group of which G. trapezicoUis is the type. 

 Boheman' s type is no longer in the Stockholm Museum ; it must be 

 closely allied to trapezicoUis, from which it would seem to differ by the 

 size, 15 mm. instead of 10 or 12 ; and by the base of the antennae and 

 the legs which are not rufotestaceous, but black with the tarsi piceous. 



Comparing it to Systolocranius validtis (Codes Goryi, Bohem.) 

 Boheman says that it is narrower, the prothorax is less broad, slightly 

 rotundato-ampliate in the median part of the outer sides, and the 

 intervals of the elytra are vaguely punctured, and the punctures 

 remote. 



