1896.] of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 373 



Anthia cinctipennis, Lequien, 

 Eev. ZooL, CI. ix., pi. 38. 



A. marginijpennis, Cast., Etud. Entom, ii., Suppl., p. 149; Gory, 

 Mag. ZooL, 1839, pi. 14. 



Head as in ^. maxillosa, and with the same depressions between 

 and behind the eyes ; prothorax of the male with the posterior lobes 

 generally shorter and in many cases hardly longer behind than in 

 the female of maxillosa, that of the female not lobate behind, 

 merely notched ; elytra very convex in the anterior part, sloping 

 gradually behind, ovate or a little ampliated at the middle, with the 

 humeral part much rounded, very faintly punctato-striate from the 

 base to past the median part, with the intervals quite plane or very 

 slightly convex, the outer margin with a white pubescent band 

 reaching from the shoulder to the apex. Length 37-38 mm. ; width 

 7^9 mm, 



Hab. Elytra very smooth : Cape Colony (Fraserburg, Burghers- 

 dorp,)''' Orange State (Boshof), Transvaal (Potchefstroom, Pretoria). 

 Elytra with the intervals very slightly convex : Ovampoland. Elytra 

 punctato-striate from the base to past the middle, and with a pro- 

 nounced convexity : Damaraland (Goagas, Omaruru). 



Anthia pachyoma, Chaud., 

 Coleopt. Novitat., 1883, p. 26. 

 ? A. limhipennis, Chaud., Bull. Mosc, 1861, ii., p. 561. 



Head and mandibles of A. maxillosa, with the same impressions 

 between the eyes and on the vertex ; shape of the prothorax of both 

 male and female identical with that of the above-named species ; the 

 lobes of the former long, reaching sometimes beyond the basal part 

 of the elytra, which are nearly parallel, with the base broad, owing 

 to the humeral angles not sloping, plane above, hardly punctato- 

 striate, with the intervals quite plane, the outer margin with a white 

 pubescent band reaching from near the humeral angle to the apex. 

 Length 36-47 mm. ; width 13-15 mm. 



Hah. Elytra very smooth : Transvaal (Potchefstroom, Middel- 

 burg, Pretoria, Marico, Middle Limpopo), Bechuanaland (Eamoutsa), 

 Zambezia (Salisbury), Cape (Calvinia). Elytra with the intervals 

 slightly convex from base to median part : Cape Colony (Kenhardt), 

 Damaraland. 



The distinctive characters between A. maxillosa and pachyoma 

 consist in the more quadrate shape of the base of the elytra, which 

 imparts to the latter a more parallel look. 



* I have received from this locality a dwarfed male specimen 35 mm. long, 

 with the posterior lobes of the prothorax of the same shape as the female. 



