On Coleoptera from South Africa. 349 



Muatehi Gtratkinsi't (Ilorsf.). 



Afartes Gwatkinsii, Ilorsf. Cat. E. Ind. Coll. p. 99 (1851) ; Blyth, 

 J. A. S. H. vol. xxvi. p. 310 (18.08). 



The wliole animal, except the chin ami throat, very dark 

 brown. Hair long and coarse, soles of the feet hairy ; the 

 ears are wanting in the light margin charactcri-stic of the other 

 species. Chin white, throat deep yellow ; there is on either 

 side a dark sjiot in line with the mouth and about midway 

 between its corner and the base of the ear. 



The skull differs in several points from that of M.Jitvic/ula, 

 although it is clearly allied to that species and agrees with it 

 in the shape of the posterior molar. 



In its general shape it is greatly flattened, especially over 

 tlie eyes, and it hardly rises at all over the brain-case; the 

 auditory bullae are also somewhat flattened, and the meatus in 

 consequence rather shorter and less conspicuous. 



It further diftVrs from the skulls of all the other species in 

 the absence of the first premolar, and, judging by the distance 

 between the second premolar and the canine, this does not 

 seem to be an individual variation. 



There is a second skull in the ]\luseum collected in the 

 Nilgiris by Mr. Davison which agrees in every respect with 

 the type. 



Dimensions (from skin): — Head and body 350 millim. ; 

 tail 300. 



Skull : greatest length 82 ; basal length 78 ; zj'gomatic 

 breadth 50 ; least breadth at postorbital constriction 22 ; 

 least jjalatal breadth between carnassial.^ 13. 



JIab. Peninsula of India. 



Tj/;.e ? ad., H.M. 79. 11. 21. G21. Madras. Collected 

 by (Sir W. Elliot, and presented through Col. Sykes to the 

 Indian Museum. 



XLVl. — Descriptions of Genera and Species of Coleoptera 

 from South Africa. By II. S. GORHAM, F.Z.S. &c. 



[Continued from vol. v. p. 04.] 



Since the first part of this |)aj)er was printed I have received 

 a further collection from Mr. Guy A. K. Marshall, in whicii 

 are many interesting species not contained in his first collec- 

 tion, ot which I now give an account, as well as of the other 

 families (the (."occiiicllidaj &c ) sent to me. Of some of the 

 Ann. d: Mag. A'. Ilist. Ser. 7. Vol. vii. 24 



