1896.] 



of the Colcoptcra of Soiitli Africa. 



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III. 



Prothorax straight at the apex, with the anterior angles 

 acute and projecting, the disk produced in two lobes broadly 

 notched behind ; mandibles very long and falciform in the 

 male, the left one overlapping the right, which is grooved for 

 two-thirds of the length and has besides two basal teeth, while 

 the left one has one only ; prothorax of the female with very 

 short lobes hardly projecting behind the base ; mandibles short ; 

 elytra ovate or ampliated in the middle. 



Type A. Maxlllosa. 



Elytra smooth, without any marginal pubescent white band viaxillosa. 



Elytra faintly striated, with the intervals a little convex . . alcjoa. 



Elytra convex, much rounded at the humeral angles and with 

 a marginal white band cinctipennis. 



Elytra subquadrate at the base, nearly smooth, and with a 

 marginal white band pachyoma. 



Prothorax of the male with a lateral band of white hairs ; 

 elytra subquadrate at the base, striated, with the intervals 

 slightly convex, a marginal white band circiimscripta. 



Elytra entirely smooth, a marginal white band linibipennis. 



Prothorax with the lateral parts much dilated and covered 

 with a dense fulvous pubescence ; elytra faintly striated, and 

 with a marginal white band thoracica. 



Anthia biguttata, Bonelli, 

 Mem. Ac. Tur., 1813, p. 452. 



Head much depressed on either side and v/ith an acute ridge 

 reaching from the labrum to the median part, closely punctured and 

 covered with fulvous decumbent hairs ; prothorax cordiform, as 

 broad as long and a little wider than the head, the external anterior 

 part sloping with the discoidal part on each side raised, a broad 

 median depression reaching from base to apex, with a narrow groove 

 in the centre, and a round depression on each side in the anterior 

 part, discoidal part smooth, with the apical part with broad punctures, 

 the longitudinal depression with fulvous or greyish hairs ; elytra 

 with the anterior angles moderately rounded, the outer sides parallel, 

 plane, each one with three much-raised convex costge carinated at 

 the tip, the intervals also with a costa much less raised than any of 

 the three and hidden by dense fulvous hairs, below the shoulder an 

 elongated bifid white patch, the first part of which is situated in the 

 interval between the second and third costae, and the second a 

 narrower but equally long one on the outer side of the third costa, 

 at the rounding of the posterior part of the elytra a narrow marginal 

 and a shorter but broader one in the outer interval and a small 

 round apical dot at the junction of the suture ; under side and legs 

 black, rugose. Length 27-28 mm. ; width 8-10 mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Worcester, Beaufort West, Willowmore 

 Humansdorp). 



