1892.] of the Goleoptera of South Africa. 65 



.elytra very elongated, deeply pitted, very slightly ampliated past the 

 middle (male) with the apical sutaral part produced in two long, sharp, 

 teeth, and having on each elytron a. supra-humeral broad, whitish 

 patch, and another one on the post median part of the disk which 

 unites with a broad supra-marginal band reaching the apex ; underside 

 steel-blue with a greenish iridescence. 



Length, 15; lat, 3™™' 



Zambezia. 



M. LIMBATA, Bertol. 



Diss. Ins. Coleopt. Bologn., 1858, p. 14, t. 1, 



Dark metallic blue-black, moderately shining ; labrum black in the 

 centre and yellow on the outer sides, head strigose ; prothorax cylin- 

 drical, plicated obliquely ; elytra deeply pitted, ampliated past the 

 middle with the suture produced at the apex in two short spines, and 

 having on each above the outer margin a sub-humeral small dot, and 

 a narrow straight band reaching from past the middle to the apex as 

 well as a post median dorsal patch in the shape of a crescent, the two 

 points of which are directed towards the apex. 



Length, I'j^-'^' 

 Mozambique, De Chaudoir's Ooliection. 



M. Saundersi, Chaud. 

 Catal. Collect. Cicind. 1865, p. 51. 



Dark metallic blue-black, moderately shining ; size and facies o! 

 i/. Umbata, and coloured alike ; elytra with the apical suture ending in 

 two long spines, no sub-humeral white spot, the apical supra-marginal 

 band is the game shape as that of Umbata^ but the dorsal patches arc 

 very small and round. 



The two examples in De Chaudoir's Collection are males. 



Delagoa Bay (teste De Chaud.) 



