1898.] of the Goleoptera of South Africa. 355 



Chl^nius (Epomis) rhodesianus. 



Bottle-green, sub-opaque and briefly pubescent ; antennae, palpi, 

 legs, and a narrow marginal border on the elytra pale yellow ; head 

 very roughly punctured ; prothorax one-fourth broader than long, 

 straight laterally from the base to about half the length, attenuate 

 from there to the apex where it is one-third narrower than at base, 

 marginate all round and covered with dense scrobiculate punctures ; 

 elytra not very much broader at the base than the base of the pro- 

 thorax but a little ampliated from the shoulder to the median part 

 where they are nearly twice as broad, they are striate with the inter- 

 vals raised, tectiform and covered with very closely set punctures 

 giving them a roughly shagreened appearance, the yellow band is 

 narrow and limited along the margin to the eighth stria ; under side 

 piceous-black, punctured laterally, abdominal segments narrowly 

 edged with yellow. Length 24 mm. ; width 10 mm. 



Similar in general appearance to C. capensis, CataL, p. 514, but 

 much more robust and very different in sculpture. It is probably 

 allied to C. boccandei, but does not agree quite with Chaudoir's 

 elaborate description of this species. 



Hab. Zambesia (Salisbury) 



Chl^enius epigraphidus, 

 Plate XI., fig. 9. 



Black, sub-opaque, elytra very briefly but densely pubescent and 

 with two yellow patches on each side, antennae, palpi, and tarsi 

 piceous-brown ; head somewhat aciculate ; prothorax one-third 

 broader than long, slightly arcuate at apex, sinuate at base, rounded 

 and gradually ampliate laterally from the anterior angle to two-thirds 

 of the length, slightly oblique from there to the outer angle, one- 

 third broader at base than at apex, outer margin carinate but not 

 reflexed, disk covered with closely set, conspicuous punctures ; elytra 

 not wider than the prothorax at its widest part and not quite three 

 times as long, punctulato-striate, with the intervals shagreened and 

 plane, they are more opaque black than the head and prothorax, 

 have on each side a light chrome-yellow, sub-transverse patch situated 

 at one- third of the length, and extending from the fifth to the eighth 

 intervals, and a supra-apical sub-ovate and smaller one extending 

 on the third, fourth, and fifth ; under side black, rugulose. Length 

 16 mm. : width 7 mm 



