234 Mr. G. C. Champion on 



brown, the head rufescent, the palpi, mouth-parts, antennae (the 

 infuscate terminal three joints excepted), femora (the tip of the 

 posterior pair excepted), and tarsi in great part, testaceous, the tibiae 

 all more or less marked with black. Head oblong, well developed 

 behind the large, rounded eyes, arcuate at the sides posteriorly, 

 closely, minutely punctate, the occipital groove extending some 

 distance forward; antennae long, slender, joints 9-11 elongated 

 and thickened, 9 not much longer than those preceding, 11 nearly 

 twice as long as 10. Prothorax long, ovate, a little wider than the 

 head, much narrowed behind, obliquely compressed on the flanks 

 posteriorly, densely, roughly scabroso-punctate, the basal groove 

 complete. Elytra moderately long, much wider than the prothorax, 

 subparallel in their basal half ; roughly punctate, and also with rows 

 of rather coarse punctures on the disc, the interstices narrow, some- 

 what raised, asperate. Pygidium emarginate at tip. Legs long, 

 very stout, the posterior pair rather shorter in proportion than usual, 

 the femora strongly clavate; penultimate joint of each tarsus 

 produced into a long, broad membranous lobe, the basal joint of the 

 anterior pair thickened. 

 Length 51- mm. {<$ ?) 



Hab. Mashonaland, Salisbury (G. A. K. Marshall, 

 xii. '97). 



One specimen, somewhat injured by an Anihrenus, but 

 in sufficiently good preservation for description. A red- 

 dish-brown, robust insect, with a long head, slender 

 antennae (the terminal three joints excepted), a basally 

 narrowed, ovate, subgranulate prothorax, moderately 

 long, roughly asperato-punctate elytra, and very stout 

 legs, with all the tibiae in part black, and the penultimate 

 tarsal joint strongly lobed. This is one of three species 

 found in S. Africa by Dr. Marshall, all very different from 

 the single recorded representative from that region, M . 

 mustela, Pasc, from Natal. 



44. Macratria cordata, n. sp. 



Elongate, rather narrow, dull (till denuded), the head shining, 

 thickly clothed with fine, adpressed, brownish pubescence, the elytra 

 with slightly longer hairs down the striae ; reddish-brown, the head 

 red, the antennae, palpi, and legs (a blackish patch on the posterior 

 femora, and the slightly infuscate posterior tibiae and first tarsal 

 joint, excepted) rufo-testaceous. Head rather small, narrower than 

 the prothorax, oblong, well-developed behind the rounded eyes, 

 arcuate at the sides posteriorly, sparsely, minutely punctate, with 



