68 M. L. Peringuet/s Descriptive Catalogue [Nov. 30, 



whitish band, which is entirely absent in the 13 examples of Junodi, 

 which I have examined. 



From Rikatla (Delagoa Bay). 



M. Bertolonii. Thorns. 



Eeviie. Zool., 1856, p. 482. 

 Lacord. Gen. At), t. 1, f. 4. 



Metallic black on the upper part, shining dark-blue underneath ; 

 head strigose, labrum black edged with yellowish- white outwardly ; 

 prothorax cylindrical but not very long, plicated obliquely; elytra 

 much ampliated past the middle, acuminated behind with the apical 

 part of the suture produced in two moderately long, sharp spines, 

 deeply and broadly foveated from the base to past the middle, strongly 

 shagreened behind, and each one having five slightly sinuated laised 

 lines, the supra-marginal of which is the longest and reaches to past 

 the middle, and also a small elongated, often inconspicuous, yellowish- 

 white spot near the apex. 



M. FOSSULATA. Wallengr. 

 Entora. Tidskr. vol. II., 1881, p. 11. 



It is with some doubt that I place here this species which I know 

 from the description only ; if it is a true Myrmecoptera it will prove 

 very probably identical with M. Bertolonii, lacking only the apical 

 yellowish-white marginal marking on the elytra ; on the other hand 

 no S. African Myrmecoptera can be said to have the dorsal part of 

 the elytra moderately depressed (dorso subplano) but in Dromica 

 the dorsal part of the male is certainly depressed. 



Bronze-black; antennae dilated outwardly with the apical points 

 attenuated ; labrum with the margins white but not the apex ; 

 base of mandibles whitish; palpi yellow, black at the apex; head and 

 prothorax closely but not very rugosely plicated, and both with a 

 moderately shining dark-blue tinge, the prothorax slightly grooved in the 

 middle, impressed obliquely in front and behind, with the disk hardly 



