1892.] to the South African Coleopterous Fauna. 5 



interrupted below the humeral angle ; a little below the shoulder is a 

 narrow ramus directed towards the suture which it does not reach, at 

 about the middle, a second ramus less arcuated and evidently intended, 

 altho' disconnected, to form with a dot situated short of the apex another 

 ramus directed backwards, also a small projecting dent at the rounding 

 of the apical part. 



Long. 10, lat. 4 mm * 



Evidently allied to C. pudibunda, Boh. — a very erratic species — but 

 narrower and differentiated by the position of the rami emitted from 

 the margin : the sub-humeral one is nearer the base, more slender and 

 nears the suture, the second one is directed backwards and the project- 

 ing dent at the rounding of the apex is sharper and longer, the 

 marginal band is also much more narrow and interrupted below the 

 humeral part. 



Gen. Myrmecoptera. Germ. 



5. M. Erikssoni. spec. nov. 



Supra nigro-cenea, capite prothoraceque transverse plicatis, hoc 

 angusto^ elongato ; elytris elongatis, sub-ovalibus, late profundeque 

 punctatis, apice mucronatis, singulo plaga triangulari discoidali vittaque 

 marginali a medio apicem attingente albidis ?totato ; subtus nigro- 

 cyanea, pedibus violaceis. Long. 14 — 15. Lat. 4 mm ' 



Shape, colouring and sculpturing of D. (myrmecoptera) limbata y 

 Saundersi Chd, and bi-lineata Dohrn, but narrower than these three 

 species ; the discoidal patch is situated in the centre of each elytron, 

 elongated and bluntly triangular, and even sometimes faintly connected 

 with the marginal band which begins only at the medium part of the 

 elytra and is broad and well defined. 



The two examples collected by Mr. Eriksson have no trace of any 

 humeral or sub-humeral marginal band or dot, as in the species above 

 mentioned. 



Family : CARABID.-2E. 

 Gen. Meladroma. Motsch. 



6. M. lugubris. Schaum: 



Recorded from Northern Natal, Orange Free State, Transvaal, 

 Zambeze River. 



