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elytra oblong, a little ampliated past the middle, with the suture pro- 

 duced apically in two long, sharp spines ; they are closely pitted and 

 have on each side a broad, continuous yellowish supra-marginal band 

 reaching from a little below the shoulder to the apex, and a round 

 spot of the same colour on the disk at a little past the median part ; 

 legs and underside reddish with a green metallic tinge. 



Length, 8 ; width, 2"^-""- 



I have seen only one male example of this pretty species, which 

 was captured near Barberton (Transvaal). 



M. FOVEOLATA. Perino:. 



Trans. S. Afr. Phil. Soc, 1888, vol. IV., p. 71. 



Violaceous-black, moderately shining on the upper part, much more 

 so underneath ; labrum yellowish-white, edged with black, head 

 strigose ; prothorax very long, cylindrical, closely plicated obliquely ; 

 elytra deeply pitted with a row on each side of deeper golden fove^e 

 at a short distance from the suture, and reaching from the base to 

 about the middle, narrow, a little ampliated past the middle with the 

 suture produced apically in two long acute spines, and having on each 

 elytron a supra-marginal narrow band below the shoulder, another one 

 in the middle, and a third one near the apex ; legs metallic blue-black. 



Length, 13 ; width, 4^"^-™- 



The type has no dorsal markings, but a male in the British Museum 

 has a small round dot on the post median part of each elytron, and the 

 sub-humeral supra-marginal band is not so well defined as in the type.- 



? Damaraland. Natal (D'Urban), teste Herr Guienzius. 



M. SPECTABiLis, new species. 



Dark metallic blue-black, moderately shining on the upper part 

 labrum white with the apical and basal part narrowly edged with black 

 head strigose ; prothorax long, cylindrical, closely plicated obliquely 



