374 Descriptive Catalogue [1896. 



I think that A. limbijjennis, Chaud., the type of which I have 

 seen, is identical with the present species. 



Anthia circumscripta, Klug, 

 Monatsb. Berl. Ac, 1853, p. 245 ; Peters' Eeise n. Mossamb., p. 151. 



A. limbipennis, var. Ovampoensis, Per., Trans. S. Afric. Phil. Soc, 

 1892, p. 15. 



Head and mandibles as in ^. maxillosa a,Jidipachyoma, with the same 

 impressions between the eyes and on the vertex ; prothorax of the 

 same shape, but the lateral sides have a thin band of white 

 decumbent hairs, very often rubbed off ; the elytra have the same 

 shape as those of pachyoma ; they are striated, with the intervals a 

 little convex from base to apex or less so, and then only from the 

 base to past the middle ; margin with a white pubescent band 

 reaching from the shoulder to the apex. Length 36-46 mm. ; w^idth 

 13-18 mm. 



The greater or lesser convexity of the intervals of the elytra 

 seems to vary very much (although it is never much developed) 

 in examples from the same locality. Thus, some examples from 

 Ovampoland, and of the same sex, show a striation with more 

 convex intervals reaching from base to apex, while in others it 

 reaches only past the middle. It might be said, however, that in 

 the male the striation and convexity of the intervals of the elytra 

 are more defined. In a male example from Lake Nyassa the con- 

 vexity of the intervals is much more pronounced than in the 

 examples from South Africa. 



Hah. Zambezia (Salisbury, Manica), Ovampoland. 



Anthia thoracica, Fabr., 

 Mant., i., p. 195 ; Oliv., Entom., iii., 35, p. 14, pi. 10, fig. bh. 

 Carabus fimbriatus, Thunb., Insect. Nov. Spec, 1784, figs. 82 & 83. 



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

 between the eyes and on the vertex, and with some moderately 

 close and deep punctures ; prothorax with the outer anterior sides 

 suborbicular, very broad, and clothed with a dense flavescent short 

 pubescence in both sexes ; posterior lobes of the male often very 

 long and subarcuate behind, those of the female hardly projecting 

 further than the basal part ; elytra broad at the base like in 

 A. pachyoma, more convex in the anterior than in the posterior part, 

 outer sides subparallel, very faintly punctato-striate, with the 

 intervals plane or hardly noticeable ; outer margin with a pubescent 

 white band reaching from base to apex. Length 33- 48 mm. ; width 

 12-17 mm. 



