U/itjncliotaf Juintilij Lj-grcidiO. 487 



apical lialf of coriiim black ; membrane with the base 

 black, and with a larj^e discal spot fuscous with tlie veins 

 black; aiitenuje witli the first and second joints subequal in 

 length, each a little shorter than fourth ; rostrum passino- 

 the anterior cox?e ; pronotnm with the anterior lobe smooth, 

 sliining, i)lack, punctate ant< riorly ;ind laterally, with Iwo 

 finely impressed central longitudinal lines, posterior lobe 

 more opaque and thickly punctate, anterior lobe not promi- 

 nently broadened as in M. philippinensis, Dist., but gradually 

 somewhat eonvexly narrowed to apex ; membrane reaching 

 or very slightly passing the anterior margin of the a|>ical 

 abdominal segment; scutellum centrally, longitudinally 

 carinate. 



Var. Abdomen beneath and the legs brownish ochraceous. 



Lono-. 5— 5i mm. 



o ... 



Htb. Philip[)ine Islands {E. Simon). 



A species readily distinguished from M. philippinensis, 

 Dist., by its small size au'l structure of the pronotum, &c. 

 Bergroth has leccntly described another small species, M. 

 lacertosus, from the same habitat, but, as he states " pro- 

 notum in the male with t,iie greatest width before the middle " 

 an I with difforeMt colour-markirgs to the " elytra,^^ it cannot 

 be confused with his specific creation. 



Dinomachns marshalli, Dist. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (7) viii. 

 p. 47afl'J01). 



Bergrotli, my constant but by no means infallible critic, 

 has recently (Medd. JMus. Zool. Aid., Gottenborg, p. 6, 

 1914) referred to my very short and quite misleading 

 " description of the genus." He states that I have " omitted 

 the most important character of D. mars/iaf/i, viz., the 

 extraordinary length of the rostrum, which reaches the 

 miiidle of the abdomen.^' As I had only an imperfect 

 specimen before me when I wrote my desciiption (I described 

 the imperfect condition of the antenna?), 1 conld not describe 

 a mntdatcd ro.^trum. However, few regard Bergroth's 

 animadversions too seriously. 



Add. Hab. Mashonaland ; Sal s^niry {Mars fiall). Mozam- 

 bique; Bazi River, Zululand {Bell-Marley and Warren). 

 Transvaal; Lydenburg {Krantz) ; Natal; Durban {Bell- 

 Marley) — Brit. jNIus. 



In the above series the length varies from 8 to 11^ mm. 



I have already desciibed species of Dinomachus from the 

 Oriental Region, and I now add another two species from 

 Australia. 



