from the Cape of Good Hope. 137 



Europs also) is either 4-4-4 and 4-4-3, or 4-4-4 in both sexes, — as the 

 case may be. If properly distinct, however, so completely does our 

 present genus imitate its Atlantic representative, that I have thought 

 the above generic title would not be altogether an inappropriate one. 



Mimema pallidum, n. sp. 



M. lineare, opacum, parce pubescens, rufo-testaceiim ; capite protho- 

 raceque alutaceis, remote leviter punctatis, hoc quadrato ad latera 

 minutissime subcrenulato ; eljrtris leviter striato-pimctatis, pallido- 

 testaceis, concoloribus ; pygidio rufescente ; antennis piceo-ferrugineis. 



Long. corp. lin. l^— If. 



The larger size, broader outline, and pallid hue of the present 

 Mimema, m conjunction with its more opake sui-face, ampler elytra, 

 and consequently less exposed pygidium, will, apart from all other 

 differences, immediately distinguish it from the following one. Al- 

 though apparently not a jE^pAorftia -feeding insect like the Atlantic 

 Europs, it would nevertheless seem to have something in common 

 with the members of that genus, as regards its habits ; for whilst 

 Europs more particularly dehghts in the viscous, adhesive exudations 

 in the interior of the rotten Eiiphorbia-stevas, Mr. Bewicke writes 

 me word that the two species of Mimema " dwell in the thick sticky 

 matter at the bottom of the flowers of the common sugar-bush (a 

 Protea)," — which " sugar-bush," I am further informed by the Rev. 

 R. T. Lowe, is probably a corruption of " Sugarbosch" (the Dutch 

 ZuyTcerhosch), and that the plant is the Protea mellifera, Thunb., of 

 which there is a figure' given in the Bot. Mag. t. 346. 



Having been accustomed to coUect in Madeira, Mr. Bewicke at 

 once recognized the present insect as a probably new species of 

 Europs ; though he informs me that he felt a little doubtful as to its 

 generic identity through the fact of finding it in flowers, — a position 

 in which the two hitherto detected species of Europ>s have never 

 been observed. Perhaps, however, the dilated tarsi of Mimema may 

 well accord with this slight difference in its mode of life ; though its 

 close resemblance to Europs in most of its other details and outward 

 contour, would certainly lead us to anticipate a considerable similaritij 

 also, — ^which " similarity " is, I conceive, sufficiently established in 

 the peculiarity of its food to which I have just di-awai attention. 



Mimema tricolor, n. sp. 



M. lineare, angustum subopacum, parcius pubescens, piceo-nigrum ; 

 capite prothoraceque alutaceis, remote punctatis, hoc subconvexo 



