96 M. L. Pemnguey 's Fourth Contribution [March 30, 



a black, basal patch in the male, that of the female black with the 

 outer sides narrowly edged with white ; head strigose, prothorax 

 very long, slender, cylindrical, finely plicated obliquely ; elytra 

 scrobiculated from the base to about past the middle and closely but 

 broadly punctured from there till the apex, and having a row of 

 deeper fovea with a golden tinge reaching from the base to about the 

 middle, the apical part of the suture produced in two very long, 

 sharp spines in both sexes, but those of the male are the longest ; no 

 white patch on the margin or disk ; underside steel-blue, very shining. 

 Captured at Rikatla, twenty miles from Lourenzo-Marquez, Delagoa 

 Bay, by the Rev. H. Junod, a^er whom I propose to name this 

 pretty species, very different from any other South Africa 

 Myrmecoptera known to me. 



Family : CARABIID^E. 



Tribe: LEBIIDJE. Lacord. 

 Gen. Lebia. Latr. 



L. MASHUANA. 



Rufo-testacea, elylris nigris, alte costatis, plaga supra humerali; 

 elongata a basi fere ad medium extensa, supra costis 4-7 posita, vitta 

 suturali angusta margineque later all flams. 



Long. 9, lat. 3i mm . 



Rufo-testaceous on the upper part, moderately shining, apex of 

 mandibles palpi and tarsi black, antennas also black, pubescent, with 

 three basal joints reddish ; head strigose ; prothorax nearly as broad 

 as losig, truncated in front and behind with the anterior angles 

 slightly rounded and the posterior acute, grooved in the centre with 

 the disk a little raised and the outer side flattened ; elytra elongated, 

 parallel from the base to two -thirds of the length and from there 

 slightly ampliated, strongly costate, a little convex, black, moderately 

 shining and having on each side an elongated, nearly quadrate yellow 

 patch, extending over the 4th, oth, 6th and 7th costa? from the base, 

 a little above the shoulder and reaching almost the median part ; this 

 patch does not however invade the basal part of the fourth costa, the 

 outer margin is edged with yellowish-red and alongside the suture 

 runs, on each side, a very fine line of the same colour ; legs and 

 underside testaceous. 



Mashnanaland (Fort Tuli). 



