1896.] of the ColeojJtera of South Africa. 167 



covering two intervals on each side from the base to about one-third 

 of the length, expanding there as far as the fifth interval, and pro- 

 duced backwards in an elongated obtuse triangle, the apex of which 

 does not reach quite the posterior margin ; antennae red, briefly 

 pubescent ; labrum smooth ; head deeply punctulated ; prothorax 

 truncate at the apex, with the anterior' angles rounded, a little ampli- 

 ated for about two-thirds of the length, the remaining third part 

 straight with the posterior angle projecting above the base, broadly 

 impressed in the centre with a fine median groove, a transverse 

 impression in the anterior part and two slight depressions on the 

 base, with the outer margins sharp, deeply and closely punctured, 

 and very briefly setulose ; elytra a little broader than the prothorax, 

 parallel, flat, deeply punctato-striate with the intervals nearly plane, 

 equal, and having each two series of punctures. Length 10 mm, ; 

 width 4 mm. 



Hah. Cape Town, found under a stone in marshy ground. 



My example of this species corresponds exactly with the one I 

 have seen in De Chaudoir's collection, under the name M. dorsalis, 

 Klug. 



It is thus most probable that the habitat ** India orientalis," as 

 given in the Munich Catalogue, is erroneous. 



Maceochilus peoximus. 



Shape and colour of M. dorsalis ; the punctures on the head and 

 prothorax are slightly deeper ; the intervals of the elytra are more 

 raised, the punctures are deeper, the sutural black patch has become 

 a discoidal one, reaching on each side the fourth stria from the base 

 to about one-fourth of the length, and ampliated obliquely from there 

 to near both the lateral and posterior margins, the yellow background 

 being thus reduced to a lateral humeral band, united to a diagonal 

 posterior one by a narrow margin ; abdomen slightly infuscate. 

 Length 11 mm. ; width 3 mm. 



Hah. Natal (D'Urban). 



Gen. MELADEOMA, Chaud., 

 Bull. Mosc, 1877, i., p. 247. 



Ligula broad, long, horny, deeply sinuated in the anterior margin, 

 Avith two setae near the centre, and the outer angles either very 

 sharp {luguhris) or moderately rounded {consohrhiiis) , very concave 

 in the anterior part, and with the basal part deeply hollowed on each 

 side ; paraglossae membranaceous, narrowly triangular, disconnected 

 with the ligula and nearly one-third as long, long lateral lobes, 

 rounded outwardly, straight inwards, and with a slender, acute 

 median tooth nearly as long as the lateral lobes, the last joint of the 



