ENTOMOLOGY. 359 
Of the first -named genera, ]\Ir. Gates collected specimens of the 
gigantic Manticora latipoinis, Waterhouse, together with a fine new- 
species of Dromica characterized below : — 
Dromica (Myrmecoptera) Oatesii, Westw. (Plate G, fig. 5, 
and Plate H, figs, i, \a, \b.) 
Nigra, capite rugose striolato, labro Isevi, in medio fulvo ; pronoto 
subopaco transverse striolato, linea media dorsali albo-hirta, elytris 
obovalibus granulatis, singulis 5 - costatis, costis longe ante apicem 
desinentibus ; costa suturas proxima e tuberculis oblongis formata ; 
costa 2da ad basim straminea, nigro-punctata ; margine externo inter 
medium et apicem linea gracili albida notato ; antennis pone articulum 
4tum dilatatis, comprcssis, articulis sensim ad apicem decrescentibus. 
Foem. Long. corp. unc. i, lat. med. elytr. lin. 3|. 
Family Carabid^. 
Of this family there are 17 peculiarly SouthAfrican Genera, including 
Crepidogaster, Hysitichopics, Arsinoe, and Piezia. The genera Eunos- 
tus, Glyphodactyla, and Mcgalonydins, occur in Madagascar as well 
as in South Africa. The greater portion of the gigantic species of 
AntJiia are African, and of these a number were collected by Mr. 
Oates, including A. maxillosa, Fabricius, Mcllyi, De Breme, cincti- 
pennis, D wpont, gtcttata, Melly, MS. in Brit. Mus., and an apparently 
undescribed species. Of the allied Genus Cypholoba, specimens were 
captured of C. alveolata, De Breme, and ^-guttata, Fabricius. Of 
Polyhirma two species, P. macilenta, Olivier, and aviabilis, Bohe- 
man (?), and two species of Graphipterus, G. C07'diger, Dejean, and 
VVestwoodii, De Breme (?) Drypta jucicnda and Orthogoiiius caffcr, 
complete the list of Carabid^. 
Family SCARAB/ElDyE. 
Of the sacred beetles, ScaraBjEIDjE, eminently characteristic of 
Africa, and especially of the southern region, specimens of the gigantic 
Pachyloi/wra fevioralis, Kirby, and a HeliocantIia7-tis^ the largest 
species of the genus, were taken by Mr. Oates, together with H. trans- 
ve7'S2(s, Laportc {operosus, Dejean), and H. hitricatus. Circellmm 
Bacchiis, Chalconotiis cupreics (varietas minor et brevior) ; three charm- 
ing species of Gyninoplcurus, G. Olivicrii, fitlgidus, and spcciosus j 
Sisyphus., one small species y Copris, eight species, including C. 
yacfues, (Edipus, Ncincstrijuts, and coclatusj six small obscure species 
of Onthopliagjts; Onitis innits and ciliatiis : — the preceding, of all of 
which specimens were taken, together with several small obscure 
species of Aphodius, all being coprophagous in their habits, sufficiently 
testify to the existence of numbers of large mammalia in the regions 
where they occur. 
