1896.] of the Coleoptcra of South Africa. 337 



Atractonota Mulsanti, PeiT., 

 Ann. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 1846, p. 60; Lacord. Gen. Atl., pi. 6, fig. 5. 



Anthia minima, Bertol. Mem. Act. Bolog., viii., 1857, p. 313, pi. 23. 

 Anthia Baucis, Dolirn, Stett. Ent. Zeit., 1881, p. 326, fig. 6. 



Black ; head narrow, longer from the labrum to the eyes than from 

 there to the base, a little narrowed behind, deeply impressed on both 

 sides between the eyes with the median part raised, and a deep, ovate- 

 median impression on the posterior part, which is also deeply punc- 

 tured ; prothorax fusiform, constricted at both ends, but with the 

 anterior part narrower than the posterior, and the inflation past the 

 median part very rugose, and with six costse, the two median ones 

 straight and enclosing a deep longitudinal groove, the others a little 

 wavy ; elytra elongato-ovate, very convex, with the posterior margin 

 deeply sinuated between the outer angle and the apical part of the 

 suture, which is produced in a long sharp spine, each one with eight 

 sharp much-raised costae with the intervals subfoveate, shining, 

 with a small submedian white pubescent patch on the fifth and 

 sixth intervals, and a little broader one at the same distance from 

 the apex as the first one is from the base, but extending from the 

 third to the sixth interval inclusively. Length 11 mm. ; width 

 3 mm. 



Hah. Free State, Zambezia (Salisbury). 



Gen. NETEODEEA, Chaud., 

 Bull. Mosc, 1861, pt. ii., p. 576. 



Mentum with the inner part of the lateral lobes straight, the outer 

 one also nearly straight, the apical part wide, truncate, with the two 

 angles slightly acute ; ligula short, much inflated ; palpi of Poly- 

 hirma, apical part of the labial palpi not much shorter than the 

 second one ; the three basal joints of antennae thick ; head elongato- 

 quadrate ; eyes very little convex ; prothorax subfusiform, truncate 

 at both ends ; elytra elongato-ovate, plane ; legs moderately short 

 and somewhat massive. 



The late Mr. H. W. Bates has described another species from 

 Benguela. 



Netrodera formicaria, Erichs., 



Plate IV., fig. 9. 

 Wiegm. Arch., 1843, i., p. 214. 



Black, labrum and first joint of antennae piceous, head very closely 

 punctured, elongato-quadrate, nearly twice as long as broad, hardly 

 narrower at the base than at the apex, with a long depression on 

 each side from the labrum to long past the eyes, which are hardly 

 convex ; prothorax slender, very slightly ampliated in the median 



