1900.] INSECTS AND AEACHNIDS FROM SOMALILAND. 31 



intervals between the rows flat and sparsely and very minutely 

 punctulate. 



This species is larger and less convex than P. gagatina Makl., 

 its prothorax is relatively a little broader, the rows of punctures 

 on its elytra are much finer, and it is distinguished further from 

 that species by its darker coloration and its glossy elytra. 



CaNTHABIDjE. 



Mtlabeis htpolachna Gestro. 



Central or East Somaliland (1897). Two examples. 



Mtlabeis sennj; Gestro. 



Central or East Somaliland (1897). Three examples 



Mtlabeis lateplagiata Eairm. 



Central or East SomaHland (1897). One example. 



Mtlabeis somalica Thomas, sp. n. 



Black, opaque, rugose, clothed with short yellow pubescence 

 interspersed with longish black hairs. The head (which has an 

 elevated shining median longitudinal line), prothorax, and elytra 

 all thickly and coarsely punctured ; the elytra dilated and widening 

 towards the apex. 



Each elytron ornamented with two long oval basal yellow mark- 

 ings, the marginal one joining a transverse yellow band extending 

 to suture, and with a second transverse band, starting from but not 

 quite touching the suture, extending down margin and curving 

 round across the apex of elytron back to the suture : these markings 

 are all margined by a fine brownish-red line. Antennae red, with 

 the exception of the first and second joints, which are black. The 

 underside, legs, and tarsi are all black with long yellow hairs ; the 

 nails and spurs red. 



This species is very similar to Mylabris hypolachna of Gestro * 

 in size, form, and general characteristics, but it differs in having 

 the second transverse band continued along the outer margin and 

 thence across the apex to the suture. 



Length 12 millim., breadth 4 millim. 



Hah. Central or East Somaliland (1897). Type in the British 

 Museum. [M. K. Thomas.] 



Epicatjta amethtstina Makl. 



Somaliland (1895 or 1897). One example. 



Ceeambtcid^:. 

 Maceotoma palmata Eabr. 



"West Somaliland : South-west Haud, Owari, East of Milmil 



(March 16, 1895). One example of this widely distributed African 



Prionid. 



1 Ann. Mus. Genov. (2) xv. p. 393 (1895 . 



