Appendir. 547 



Pompilus marshaUi, sp. nov. (PI. XXIII, f. 20.) 



$ . Resembles P. collaris, 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 F. collaris the median segment i.s smooth almost flat above, while 

 the postericjr 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 antennic, the pro- 

 notum, the tibiae and tarsi of the anterior, and the tibire and base of 

 the first joint of the tarsi of the intermediate and posterior leo-s red ; 

 wings fusco- violaceous the posterior 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 9 20 ; ex^). 28 rn.rn. 



Hah. Salisbury, 5000 feet, Mashonaland (G. A. K. 



Marshall). 



This species belongs to Kohl's ferrcola group of 

 Pompilus. 



Type in the Hope Museum, Oxford. 



Description of a new species of Carabidffi from South 

 Africa. By Guy A. K. Marshall. 



Polyhirma lennettii, Mshl, sp. nov. 



Long. 15 m.m. Length of elytra 8 m.m. ; width at base 1-75 

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

 apex an eloiigate 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 wliite pubescence 



