120 DescriiHive Catalogue of the Coleoptera of South Africa. [1896. 



apex to base ; elytra elongated, gradually ampliated from the 

 base to about two-thirds of the length, ending in two sharp, 

 long, sutural spines in the male, short and blunt in the female, 

 convex, with five costse reaching from the base to two-thirds of the 

 length, but the first and fifth longer than the three discoidal ones, 

 intervals foveato-reticulate, apical part shagreened, on each side a 

 white line running on the second costa from the base to about one- 

 fourth of the length, a more or less sublunar or rounded patch of the 

 same colour placed at the apex of the three discoidal raised lines, 

 and a narrow supra-marginal posterior band extending from the 

 same height as the discoidal patch to the apex. Length 19 mm. ; 

 width 5-7 mm. 



In general facies this species approximates to M. ]jolyhirmoides or 

 M. Mashuna, but the markings on the elytra are very different. 



Hab. Zambezia (Salisbury). 



Myrmecopteea speciosa. 



Very similar at first sight to M. hilunata, but it is a little larger 

 and the fovese of the elytra are deeper and broader ; the elytra are 

 more broadly ampliate past the middle in both sexes, and have a 

 very distinct juxta-sutural costa running from the base to about 

 the median part, and much better defined than in M. hilunata, and 

 instead of an anterior supra-marginal white band there is an ill- 

 defined white dot close to the juxta-sutural costa ; the post-median 

 discoidal spot is much larger and round, and the apical supra- 

 marginal band is broader and very much shorter ; in the male the 

 basal white spot is either entirely wanting or hardly noticeable. 

 Length 17-19 mm. ; width 5-6 mm. 



Hah. Zambezia (Buluwayo). 



Section C. — (Deomica.) 



Dromica quinque-costata, Horn, 



Catal., p. 97. 



Dr. Horn has sent me his type ; I possess also a male of this 

 species, which, however, I considered at the time to be only a slight 

 variety of D. clatlirata, from which it differs by a more slender 

 shape and by the more ovate form of the elytra, which are not 

 depressed at the base ; the five costae on each side are shorter, and 

 the apical yellowish spot is ovate, not elongate as in clatlirata, and 

 situated at a greater distance from the margin. 



It is this species which de Chaudoir in his collection has identified 

 as the -D. clathrata of Klug. 



Hah. The locality of my example is not known to me. 



