On Beetles from Mashonaland and East A/ricx. 89 



of Mejalurus horn tlie Lower Kimtneiidgian (Litl»o;^ra[)hic 

 Stone) of Bavaria*. Its pelvic tins are aUo fringed with 

 fulcra, wliicli have only been observed in one species, M. alti- 

 veHsf. Tlie so-called Meyalarus Damoni and M. Austeni, 

 from the En^^lisli Purbeck Beds, have the vertebral centra 

 pitted at the sides, and so ought perhaps to be referred to 

 A III io pi in. 



The occurrence of another European U[)per Jurassic fish in 

 the Cretaceous of Brazil becomes less remarkable when it is 

 remembered that a typical Lepidotus is one of the commonest 

 fossils in the same formation J. 



EXPLANATION OF PLATE II. 



Megalurus Maicsoni, .«p. n. ; fisli, wanting head, right lateral aspect, nat. 

 size. — Cretaceous; Bahia, Brazil, a., anal tin ; c, caudal liu ; 

 plv., pelvic tins. 



XIX. — On Fiutelid and Melohnthid Beetles from Mashonaland 

 and East Africa. By Gilbert J. Arrow. 



The following notes and descriptions deal with a collection 

 sent to the British iMuseum from Salisbury, Mashonaland, hy 

 Mr. Guy A. K. Marshall, together with a few other species 

 which have presented themselves in the course of work upon 

 that collection. These consist of insects from East Africa, 

 Mr. Marshall's collection showing a much closer connexion 

 with the fauna of the regions north and east of Mashonaland 

 than with that of South Africa. A very large proj^ortion, 

 however, of the species of these two families have not been 

 hitherto recorded at all. I have not described the representa- 

 tives of certain large genera in which it seems to me un- 

 desirable to characterize isolated species without being able at 

 least to give a careful comparison with the nearest allied 

 foim; and others 1 have omitted because Mr. Peringuey has 

 informed me of his intention to describe them shortly. 



RutelidsB. 

 Anomala ustulatipes, Fairm. {rufa, Kolbe). — Mr. Marshall 



• A. Smith Wood-ward, Catal. Foss. Fishes B. M, pt. iii. (1895) 

 pp. 363-367. 



t A. Wagner, Abhandl. k. bay. Akad. Wise., math.-phvs. CI. vol. ix 

 (1803) p. 717. 



X Lepidotus Mawsoni, A. S. Woodward, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. [61 

 vol. ii. (1888) p. 135. 



