250 ME, g;. a. k. marsuall ox the [Mar. 20. 



tricarinate, the central cai-ina sometimes obsolescent, the outer 

 ones sti'aight and parallel. Antennce long and slender, piceous, 

 with fine grey scaling ; the scape compressed, strongly bisinuate, 

 gradually dilated to apex ; funicle with the third joint distinctly 

 longer than first, the subterminal ones elongate and clavate. 

 Prothorax twice as broad as long in the S , more than twice as 

 broad in the 5 » base subangulate, apex nairower and sinuate 

 (more markedly so in the 6 ), sides slightly rounded, broadest at 

 base ; upper sui-face slightly convex, closely set with low rounded 

 granules, with a smooth subdepressed central line and a distinct 

 curved impression on each side ; colour black, granules bare, the 

 interstices with fine grey or yellowish scaling, which is sparse on 

 the disk, except in the three impressed lines, and A'ery dense on 

 the underparts. Elytra narrowly ovate in the 6 , broadly ovate 

 in the $ , jointly emarginate at base, the humeral angle more or 

 less acutely prominent in (^ , obtuse in $ ; sides almost parallel 

 from base to beyond middle in c? , strongly rounded and broadest 

 about middle in .9 ; upper surface depressed in c? , convex in $ , 

 with broad strioe containing rows of shallow punctures separated 

 by small granules ; the intervals convex, with iri'egular obsolescent 

 granules, which are distinct and prominent only on the apical 

 declivity, the second intei'val broader than the third near the base 

 in the 5 only; colour black, with grey or yellowish scaling, which 

 is sparse dorsally, but foi'ms a dense iri'egular band along the 

 inflexed margins and across the summit of the declivity ; on the 

 disk there are some stripes of denser scaling in the c5' • Legs long 

 and thick in (^ ■, shoi-t and compai-atively slender in $ , piceous, 

 with even fine gi'ey scaling ; in the cj the posterior pairs of tibiae 

 are slightly curved, the anterior pair very strongly so, the posterioi- 

 femora reach, Avhen fully extended, just beyond the elytra ; in the 

 2 the anterioi- tibise are only slightly curved and the posterior 

 pairs straight, the posterior femora do not reach the apex of the 

 elytra. 



Type c5' in the Stockholm Museum. 



Natal : Durban {J. P. Cregoe & A. £>. Millar), Malvern {C. N. 

 Barker & G. A. K. 31.), Upper Tongaat R. (C. lY. Barker), Lower 

 Tugela R. {E. D. Reynolds). Zululaxd : Lower Tugela R. [E. D. 

 Reynolds), Eshowe [A. Windham). Traxsvaal : Potchefstroom 

 {T. Ay res). 



In the British Museum there is a series of 8 males and 3 females 

 from the Lower Tugela, which repi'csent a fairly well-marked 

 varietal form. The difierence is more marked in tlae S , ii^ which 

 the elytra are distinctly broader in proportion to their length, the 

 sides being gently rounded instead of subparallel ; the hiuneral 

 angle is therefore more obtuse and the intervals appear to be a 

 little broader. The markings on the elytra are pure white, there 

 being a sharpl}- defined stripe on the second interval which unites 

 near the base with a quadrate scutellar patch. The 2 differs 

 only in shape from the type form, two of the specimens having 

 the elytra much shorter and more rotund; the third example, 



