1892.] of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 71 



labrum black with a yellowish median band 5 prothorax elongated, 

 sub-cylindrical, plicated transversely, the longitudinal median 

 groove with white tomentum ; elytra ampliated past the middle with 

 the apical sutural spines short, deeply and closely pitted ; on each one 

 are five raised, narrow lines disappearing before reaching the ap3x, 

 and also a basal, very short, yellowish- white band, and an 

 elongated supra-marginal patch of the same colour close to the apex. 



Length, 24-25; 7J-8""""* 



Middle Limpopo, Zambeze River. 



The sub-foliation of the antennse and the shape of the prothorax 

 as delineated in Gate's Matabeleland, are defective. 



Gen. DROMICA. Dejean. 



Spec. II, 1826, p. 434. 



Body oblongo-ovate, wingless, labrum five-dented; mentum with a 

 very small median tooth, third articulation of the labial palpi 

 thickened ; head slightly broader than the prothorax ; antennae with 

 the first four basal joints filiform and the other seven either com 

 pressed or sub-foliated or filiform; prothorax short, quadrate, deeply 

 impressed in front and behind and grooved in the centre, with the 

 two sides of the disk produced in a long tubercle; elytra oblong, as 

 broad as the prothorax at the base, those of the male a little 

 depressed and nearly parallel, the female's convex and nearly always 

 ampliated past the middle, suture raised and ending in two apical 

 moderately sharp spines in the male, nearly obtuse in the female ; 

 legs long and slender, tarsi and tibiae not grooved in the upper part, 

 the three basal joints of the fore tarsi of the male dilated and 

 ciliated. 



Dromica is met with in the Cape Colony (Seymour, Graham's 

 Town, East London), in Natal, Zululand, the Transvaal, Middle 

 Limpopo and Mozambique. 



So far as I am aware species of this genus have not been captured 

 outside the South-African limit. 



