10 Annals of the South African Museum. 



Cape Colony : Stellenbosch, 4 $ , 5 J , 3 larvae ; Cape Town, 

 3 $ , 4 5 ; Table Mountain, 1 $ , var. forcipata ; Houw Hoek, 

 1 cf- 



Only known from Cape Colony. 



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FIG. 5. () M. peringueyi 3 form cyclolabia ; (1} forceps 

 <? form macrolabia. 



2. M. PEOMONTORII, sp. n. 

 Fig. 6, a-b. 



Statura gracili ; pygidium 3 truncatum, integrum ; forcipis 

 bracchia $ basi remota, gracilia, sensim arcuata. 



Long, corporis : $ , 9 mm. ; $ , 8 mm. 

 Long, forcipis : $ , 4 mm. ; $ , 2 mm. 



Size median, build slender, general colour yellowish brown. 



Antennas red- brown, paler at the base and darker at the apex, 

 with 12 segments, fourth a little shorter than the third, all very 

 slightly thickened at the apex. 



Head smooth, dull red, tumid ; sutures obsolete. 



Pronotum rectangular, transverse, all sides straight, depressed. 



Elytra rudimentary, meeting at the suture, but exposing a short 

 portion of the rnesonotum and all the metanotum. 



Legs yellowish, slender, first tarsal segment slightly longer than 

 the third. 



Abdomen very feebly widened posteriorly in the 3 , and gently 

 narrowed there in the ? , deep red-brown. 



