358 Rev. H. S. Gorham on 



et metastemo pedibusquo posticis nigris, his geniculis tarsisque 

 flavescentibus. 

 Long. 4-5 millim. c^ $ , 



Hah. Maslionaland, Salisbury, Aug. and Sept., on Mosasa 

 {Marshall). 



Mas, occipite cannula V simulante impressa pone carinulam fossu- 



latam ; antennis acute serratis. 

 Femina, autenuis brevioribus subserratis ; fronte plana. 



Head black in the male, except the mouth and portion in 

 front of the eyes; in the female only the base behind the eyes 

 black ; antennae yellow, becoming slightly fuscous at the tip. 

 Thorax with the front margin straiglit, the sides and base 

 rounded in one uniform curve, the margin very narrowly 

 reflexed, with a black obconic vitta, with its vertex on the 

 base in the male (in the female this is only represented by an 

 indefinite line), impressed with a wide and rather irregular 

 fossa in front, which in the female is very indefinite. The 

 elytra are rather broad, evenly rounded at the apex, and with 

 no difference in the sexes, except that in the male they do not 

 cover the last three segments of the abdomen, each with two 

 blue-black spots, the basal one irregular on the apical side 

 and occupying the whole base, the subapical one is large and 

 squarish, but yet rounded on its apical side. The breast is 

 black, but the abdomen and head beneath are red. The 

 apical segments of the abdomen in the female in the middle, 

 the extreme apex in the male, are black above. The legs are 

 yellow, but the posterior pair are black, with only the 

 trochanters and knees pale. 



Two specimens. 



This pretty Anthocomus is coloured something like Attalus 

 ridens here described; the absence of the overlapping joint of 

 the tarsus in the male will prevent its being taken for a 

 member of that genus. 



Chah'corus? formicarius, sp. n. 



Niger, antennarum basi, tibiis tarsisque anticiset interraediis flavis, 

 illis basi infuscatis ; prothorace elongato, basi valde constricto 

 depressoque, antice convexo, nigro, basi albido-flavo ; elytris 

 ovatis valde convexis, parce griseo pilosis, profunda seriatim 

 punctatis, nitidis. 



Long. 2 miUim. 



Bab. Natal, Malvern {Marshall). 



Head with the eyes wider than the thorax, minutely but 

 distinctly punctured ; antennae filiform, fuscous at the apex, 



