104 South African Beetles 
PHEROSOPHUS UBOMBOENSIS, Sp. Nov. 
Head, prothorax, legs and underneath (except the abdomen which 
is more or less infuscated) dull yellow. The prothorax is margined 
with black exactly as in P. bohemani, Chaud. and the knees are 
infuscated. Elytra black, with a broad marginal band, commencing 
in a humeral spot and extending to the outer apical angle. The black 
ground immediately above the apex shades off into brownish ; the tips 
of the coste pallid. <A little below middle a narrow yellow discal 
patch extends diagonally downwards from the middle of the sixth to 
the fourth intervals where it broadens upwards ; elytra nearly parallel 
with the shoulders, only slightly sloping; narrowly costate, with 
both coste and intervals rugosely, irregularly punctate, giving the 
surface a coriaceous appearance, especially towards the apical 
declivity ; the intervals densely clothed with a short pubescence. 
Head faintly aciculate, longitudinally plicate near eyes. 
Length 15 mm. Width 6 mm. 
Hab. Ubombo, Zululand. Collected by H. W. Bell Marley. 
The distinctive characteristic of this species is the punctuation of 
the costz of the elytra and its more quadrate shape. The setz of the 
legs and underneath are denser and longer than usual. 
BRACHINUS MARLEYI, sp. nov. 
Head, prothorax, palpi, and beneath reddish-yellow. The four 
basal joints of the antenne reddish-yellow, with the third and 
fourth sub-apically banded with fuscous ; terminal joints ferruginous 
and pubescent excepting the first two. Legs reddish-yellow, a shade 
lighter than the prothorax. Elytra black with the margins broadly 
yellow from base to outer apical angle where they. widen into an 
irregularly rounded spot. The scutellum, and a large sub-triangular 
patch enveloping it, yellow, narrowly connected basally with the 
marginal band. On each side of the scutellar spot, and only separated 
from the humeral angles by a narrow strip of the black ground colour, 
a large elongate patch extends transversely from the fourth interval 
to its coalescence with an inward extension of the marginal band. 
The combined patch though widely joined is deeply indented by the 
ground colour above and beneath, at the points of juncture. The 
discoidal part of the patch extends to below middle. The apical 
declivity bears a large ovate spot which inclines diagonally towards 
the suture and apex, and covers the fifth to second intervals. It is 
narrowly separated from the spot at the outer apical angle. The 
