172 Descriptive Catalogue [1896. 



tulate ; the last abdominal segment red on the upper and under 

 "oart. Length 11-12 mm. ; width 3J-3-|- mm. 



Hab. Mozambique (Eikatla). 



This species was originally described from an example captured in 

 the island of Pemba (Zanzibar coast). 



Planetes limbatus. 



Head, prothorax, antennae, and legs brick-red ; head nearly 

 smooth ; prothorax closely and finely punctulate, very briefly 

 pubescent ; elytra elongate, depressed, subparallel, slightly broader 

 at the base than the prothorax at its widest part, each elytron with 

 seven costas and two smaller ones in the intervals, and all the costas 

 briefly pubescent, black, with a narrow marginal brick-red band 

 reaching from near the scutellum to the apical suture ; under side 

 brownish red, with the three apical abdominal segments infuscate 

 and the superior part of the last one brick red. Length 9 mm. ; 

 width 3 mm. 



Hab. Mozambique (Eikatla). 



Teibe BEACHINIDES. 



Ligula long, membranaceous, horny in the centre, fused with the 

 paraglossae ; palpi more or less thick ; mandibulge sharp at the tip, 

 not much bent inwardly ; antennae filiform, setulose, with the joints 

 more or less elongated ; head gradually narrowed behind the eyes, 

 and with one supra-orbital seta ; prothorax heart-shaped ; elytra 

 truncated at the apex and, with the exception of some Cr epidog aster y 

 more or less costate. 



All the South African Brachinides, the genus Harpax excepted, 

 have on each side of the head a long bristle above the labrum, which 

 is fringed with six hairs, another one above the eye, and a third 

 one on the outer margin of the prothorax at its broadest part. The 

 first joint of the antennae, has also two setae, the inner one longer 

 than the outer. The male has eight abdominal segments, and the 

 female seven. The penultimate abdominal segment is short and 

 very broadly incised in the middle in the male, and the three basal 

 joints of the anterior tarsi are more dilated than in the female, 

 although in a very slight degree in some cases, and they have under- 

 neath two longitudinal rows of transverse lamella. 



The facies of Brachinides is very distinct from that of all other 

 CarabidcB, and they form a very homogeneous group. They are 

 generally gregarious and found in damp, marshy places, often under 

 stones, hke the Ozcnides and PaussidcE. They emit by the anal 



