On a new Lonyicorn Beetle from South Africa. 279 



XLIV. — Description of a new Lonfjicorn Beetle from South 

 Africa. By VV. L. Distant. 



Megac<elus gustavi^ sp. n. 



Black, with a more or less olivaceous tint ; elytra crossed 

 by a transverse yellowish-white fascia at middle ; head 

 somewhat thickly brownishly pilose, finely punctate at base, 

 with a central medial linear impression not quite reaching 

 base ; antennae robust, first joint thickest and clavate towards 

 apex, second very short, third longest, a little longer than 



Meyacoelus gustavi, sp. n. 



fourth or fifth which aresubequal, remaining joints excluding 

 apical gradually narrowing and almost subequal, apical joint 

 shortest ; pronotum finely punctate, centrally anteriorly sub- 

 cordately depressed, on each side of the anterior margin of 

 the depression a transverse flattened tuberculous ridge, at 

 base a central transverse ridge; scutellum slightly centrally 

 concave, broadly ridged on each side ; elytra somewhat 

 thickly |)unctate, the punctures more visible on the trans- 

 verse pale fascia, each elytron with two longitudinal discal 

 linear ridges, their apices angularly rounded and in the 

 ? not reaching the abdominal npex; body beneath more 

 or less brownly pilose ; legs finely shortly pilose, the margins 

 of the femora and tibiae more distinctly so. 



Long. $ 30 mm.; max. hit. hum. angl. 10 mm. 



Ilah. Cai)e Colony; East London ((r. Distant). 



Allied to M. didelphis, Chevr., but not only differing in 

 colour and markings, the narrow transverse pale fascia being 

 placed at middle of elytra, but also in the antennae, which 

 are almost twice as broad. 



