16 M. L. Peringueifs Descriptive Catalogue [Nov. 30^ 



Closely allied to latipennis ; the granulation of the elytra is not so 

 dense nor so pronounced, and the depression of the suture in the 

 posterior part is very noticeable. 



Mozambique. 



I have only a male example, but I have seen another one, I believe, 

 from Lake Nyassa, in the British Museum. 



M. SCABEA, Klug, 



Linnea. ^Entomol. IV., 1849, p. 420, pi. 1, fig. 3 & 4. 

 Thorns. Monegr. d. Cicind., p, 8, pi. 2, fig. 1 & 2. 

 Keise nacb. Mozamb. Insect, pi. 8, fig. 2 & 3. 



Black, shining ; head and mandibles as broad and long as in lati- 

 pennis ; prothorax of the usual shape ; elytra short, very cordiform 

 (16-17™-"*- across the shoulders, 22-24 in the middle, and 19-20 at the 

 top of the declivity), the anterior part of the disk depressed, the 

 posterior part raised, very convex, and abruptly retuse behind ; the 

 whole of the upper part covered with a closely set prominent granu- 

 lation, less dense, however, close to the suture. 



The brevity of the elytra, which are also much ampliated in the 

 middle, and above all the convexity of the posterior part of the disk 

 impart to this species a distinct facies. 



Length, 43-47 ; width 22-24™""' 

 The female is exactly like that of latipennis. 

 Length, 43-46 ; width, 2 0-21 ™-™- 

 Delagoa Bay (Rikatla, Antiocha), 

 Mashunaland (Manica, Tuli), Mozambique. 



Yar. PSBUDO-SCABRA. 



Black, shining ; head and mandibles of the type-form ; elytra as 

 cordiform, but with the posterior part of the disk less convex, that is 

 to say, not so much raised, the granulau<)n is smaller, the line on each 

 elytron finer, and the discoidal space between these two lines smooth, 

 and the lateral serration of the atiterior part formed of five very 

 distinct spines close to each other. 



