1892.] of the Goleoptera of South Africa. 59 



eyes very large; prothorax sub-cylindrical; elytra sub-parallel; legs 

 slender, tarsi not grooved. 



The thickened third maxillary palpi is the only distinct generic 

 character which differentiates Megalomma from Euryoda of which they 

 have, besides, the general facies ; and the mentum tooth is not very 

 much shorter. 



The genus Jansenia has been created by De Chaudoir in order to 

 include Dromica Wester manniy Schaum., an Indian species, and he has 

 added to it Gicindela chloriday from Malabar, and also, but without 

 sufficient cause I think, Physodeutera angusticolUsj which I prefer to 

 retain in the genus Megalomma. 



M. ANausTicoLLis. Bohem. 



Insect. Caffrar. vol. I, p. 15. 



Head, prothorax, scutellum and humeral part of the elytra brassy, 

 shining, elytra very dark bronze with the lateral margins greenish- 

 blue ; underside and legs dark-blue, the tibiae red, basa! joints of palpi 

 pale-yellow ; labrum yellow with six setigeroiis punctures in the 

 anterior part, head strigose, prothorax cylindrical, slightly narrowed in 

 front and behind, not grooved in the centre, finely shagreened ; elytra 

 a little broader than the prothorax at the base, with the sides nearly 

 straight^ but a little ampliated behind in the female, rounded behind 

 ending in a sharp spine on each side of the apical part of the suture, 

 convex, closely punctured with a distinct row of broader green punc- 

 tures on each side of the suture, dark-bronze, and each elytron with 

 three sinuose, irregular, longitudinal black lines, a small yellowish 

 dot at about the median part of the disk and two patches of the 

 same colour behind, one, the largest, a little above the apical part, 

 nearer to the margin than to the suture, and the other, a smaller one, 

 at the very apical part. 



Length, 10-11 ; width, 4"*-'°' 



Natal (D'Urban, Maritzburg, Frere), Transvaal (Potchefstroom, 

 Lydenburg.) 



