354 . Descriptive Catalogue [1898. 



not broader than the prothorax, striate, the striae finely punctured 

 and the intervals plane, dark bottle-green and with a more or less 

 ovate yellow patch placed in the posterior part at about two-thirds 

 of the length, extending from the second to the fifth stria and 

 coalescing there with a moderately wide supra-marginal band of the 

 same colour, which becomes quite marginal in the apical part ; under 

 side iridescent. Length 13 mm. ; width 5 mm. 



Easily distinguishable by the interrupted shape of the marginal 

 band, which begins only at about two-thirds of the length, and 

 coalesces with the dorsal ovate patch. 



My description is made from a Senegal example, compared with 

 Dejean's type. 



Chaudoir in his ' Monographic des Chleniens ' mentions that it 

 occurs also in Natal, where it was captured by Guienzius. Herr H. 

 J. Kolbe says that the habitat of this species extends from Natal to 

 Nubia and Senegambia. I have not as yet met with a South 

 African example. 



CHLiENIUS RAFFRAYI, Chaud., 



Plate XL, fig. 8. 

 Monogr. d. Chlen., 1876, p. 63. 



Head and prothorax metallic green, antennae and legs rufescent, 

 elytra violaceous, glabrous and with a supra-apical rufescent patch 

 on each side ; head very finely punctured, the punctures not closely 

 set ; prothorax one-fourth broader than long, a little attenuate 

 laterally from the apex to the median part, nearly parallel from there 

 to the base ; disk slightly punctulate, deeply impressed on each side 

 in the basal part and distinctly punctured along the base ; elytra 

 oblongo-ovate, a little broader than the prothorax, striate with the 

 striae very distinctly punctured and the intervals plane ; the outer 

 margin is as violaceous as the rest of the elytra and not densely 

 pubescent, and there is at about three-fourths of the length two 

 short elongate patches restricted to the fourth and sixth intervals, 

 the outer one being a little longer than the inner one ; under side 

 slightly iridescent, black, with the three abdominal segments piceous- 

 red. Length 16 mm. ; width 6^ mm. 



This description is made from an example from Bagamoyo. 



Hob. Mozambique (Quilimane), teste H. J. Kolbe. 



