Appendix. 547 



Pomjnlus marshalli, sp. nov. (PI. XXIII, f. 20.) 



9 . Resembles P. cullaris, Saussure, from Madagascar, but the thorax 

 is comparatively longer, the scutellum not so raised and prominent, 

 and the median segment is almost cylindrical very convex above, 

 roughly transversely striate, and posteriorly truncate but not concave. 

 In P. collar is the median segment is smooth almost flat above, while 

 the posterior face is concave with the sides distinctly produced 

 backwards. 



Black with a beautiful purplish bloom on the abdomen above ; 

 the head with the mandibles and the scape of the antennae, the pro- 

 notum, the tibias and tarsi of the anterior, and the tibia? and base of 

 the first joint of the tarsi of the intermediate and posterior legs red ; 

 wings fusco- violaceous the po.sterior scarcely lighter in colour than 

 the anterior wings. In P. collaris the fore-wing is markedly darker 

 than the hind-wing. Abdomen massive as long as the head and 

 thorax united. Base of the 2nd ventral segment with a distinct 

 transverse groove-; pygidial area densely pubescent. 



Length 5 20 ; exp. 28 m.m. 



Hah. Salisbury, 5000 feet, Mashon aland (Gf. A. K. 



Marshall). 



This ■ species belongs to Kohl's ferreola group of 

 Pompilus. 



Type in the Hope Museum, Oxford. 



Description of a neiv species of Carabidse from South 

 Africa. By Guy A. K. Marshall. 



Poiyliirma henncttii, Mshl., sp. nov. 



Long. 15 m.m. Length of elytra 8 m.m. ; width at base TTS 

 before middle 3, at apex 1'75 m.m. 



Body depressed and very elongate. Colour black with a broad 

 line of thin greyish pubescence from labrum to basal part of elytra ; 

 the foveas of the elytra filled with ferruginous pubescence, and at the 

 apex an elongate sutural white patch. 



Head broadly depressed in middle, indistinctly punctured and 

 with a short central carina just behind the labrum, which is bare 

 and impunctate ; eyes prominent ; the band of pubescence very 

 broad in front, narrow posteriorly. Antennae, strongly compressed, 

 black ; the three basal joints shiny and with sparse white pubescence 



