1892.] of the Coleopiera of South Africa. 67 



Length, 14-15 ; width, 4"-™' . 



Allied to if. 7iohilitata, Gerst., from Lake Jipe. 



Northern Ovampoland. 



M. JuNODi. Paring. 

 Trans. S. Afric. Pbilos. Society, 1892, p. 95. 



Metallic blue-black, shining on the upper part; labrum yellow with 

 a black basal patch in the male, that of the female black with the 

 outer sides narrowly edged with white ; head strigose ; prothorax 

 very long, slender, cylindrical, finely plicated obliquely ; elytra deeply 

 pitted from the base to about past the middle, and less deeply in the 

 posterior part, and having a row of deeper fovese with a golden tinge 

 reaching from the base to about the middle, the apical part 

 of the suture produced in two very long, sharp spines in both sexes, 

 but those of the m ale are the longest, no white patch on the margin 

 or disk -, underside steel-blue, very shining. 



Length, 18-20; width, 4|'"-'"- 



From Delagoa Bay — 20 miles from Lourenco Marques. Seen a 

 feriiale from that locality the labrum of which is entirely black. 



M. Algoensis. 



Metallic blue-black, shining on the upper part; labrum totally black 

 (female) ; head strigose, prothorax very long, slender, cylindrical, 

 finely plicated obliquely; elytra deeply pitted from the base to about 

 the middle, but less deeply in the posterior part, and having a row 

 of deeper fovese with a golden tinge reaching from the base to about 

 the middle : apical part of the suture produced in two very sharp, 

 long spines, a white elongated patch on the posterior margin. 



Length, 19; lat., ^'^"^' 

 Differs only from if. Junodi, in having an apical marginal 



