1896.] of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 101 



Gen. MANTICA, Kolbe, 

 Ent. Nachrichten, 1896, p. 5. 



"Allied to the genus Mantichora, but the body is slender; the head 

 hardly ampliate ; the prothorax somewhat narrow and without any 

 lobe ; the elytra are not ampliate ; antennae long, setaceous ; eyes 

 small ; labrum truncate, slightly sinuate near the angles and 

 obtusely denticulate ; mandibles rather small, similar to those of the 

 female Mantichora, and tridentate inwardly ; the two frontal carinae 

 near the eyes are indistinct ; the median tooth in the mentum is 

 short, plane, not projecting, and with the tip sinuate ; prothorax 

 convex, narrowed in front and behind, with the sides a little rounded, 

 slightly narrow behind, with the posterior part of the disk not lobate 

 and the posterior margin little sinuate ; elytra convex, scabrous, 

 moderately plane and smooth on the disk ; epipleurae moderately 

 smooth in the anterior part, well defined, scabrous behind, and not 

 separated from the dorsal part ; legs slender ; tarsi thin, elongated, 

 longer than the tibiae in the posterior legs, the anterior ones not 

 dilated in the male ; the four basal segments of the abdomen 

 convex and separated deeply from one another by a sulcus. 



This remarkable genus connects the isolated genus Mantichora 

 with the other genera of the family ; it has not the extraordinary 

 shape of the former, but its close relationship is clearly noticeable. 

 The head, mandibles, and prothorax are of the Gicindela type, 

 with some approach to Mantichora, with which it has in common 

 small eyes, otherwise the head is comparatively much smaller ; the 

 mandibles are shorter and both of equal length in the male — the 

 only sex known — instead of being bent almost at right angles, as 

 in Mantichora, in which the right one is also the longest ; the 

 prothorax does not show the aberrant shape with the two posterior 

 projecting lobes on the upper side ; the elytra are considerably 

 narrower, and the sides are less distinctly marginate. 



Majitica has a more slender facies than Mantichora ; the head 

 and prothorax are narrower and smaller ; the elytra longer, narrower, 

 and more convex ; the mandibles of the male are shaped like those 

 of the female Mantichora, and are of moderate length, less curved, 

 armed inwardly with three sharp, large teeth, and without smaller 

 ones ; the labrum is nearly edentate, emarginate, with the anterior 

 angles bluntly acuminate ; the eyes are small and moderately 

 convex, as in Mantichora, deviating, therefore, from the usual 

 type ; antennae as long and as filiform as in Mantichora. The 

 median tooth in the mentum is, however, quite aberrant in shape ; 

 it does not project strong and sharp, but is weak, flat, emarginate at 

 end, shorter than the lateral lobes, and shaped as in the majority 

 of the Cicindelidce.'" . . 



