496 Transactions South African Philosophical Society, [vol. xiii. 



flavescent band partly enclosing a black spot ; scutellum impunctate, 

 flavous ; elytra very sparsely punctate, the punctures sub-cicatricose 

 and more numerous on the deflexed part than on the non-costate 

 discoidal part, aciculate and strigillate along the posterior margin, 

 and having slightly past the median part a flavescent marginal patch 

 somewhat broad at the upper part, incised inwardly, and resembling 

 a broad comma; spiracle of propygidium acuminate and conspicuous; 

 pygidium slanting, carinate longitudinally in the median part, and 

 having on each side and close to it a conspicuous, rounded tubercle 

 more or less flavescent ; the upper sides of the abdomen are im- 

 maculate, the side-pieces have a flavescent patch, and there is a 

 similar one on the sides of the metasternum. 



Length 14-15 mm. ; width 1-1\ mm. 



Hab. Transvaal (Pretoria, Waterberg) ; Southern Ehodesia 

 (Sebakwe) ; Ovampoland (Okovango Eiver). 



Macroma lutescens, Westw., 

 Thesaur. Entomol., p. 10, pi. vii., fig. 2. 



" Oblong, sub-depressed, luteous-fulvous, shiny ; head and pro- 

 thorax smooth ; elytra moderately smooth, marked between the eyes 

 with a V-shaped spot, sides behind the eyes chestnut ; prothorax 

 sulcate in the middle, luteous-fulvous and having two broad, longi- 

 tudinal bands narrowed in front and chestnut-brown, and two black 

 dots on the anterior part of the sides ; elytra depressed towards the 

 suture and having one humeral dot and two sub -apical, irregular 

 macules chestnut-brown, hind margin of the prothorax and the 

 suture narrowly black ; legs short, chestnut-red, femora fulvous on 

 the upper side ; abdomen and pectus variegated with fulvous and 

 yellow. The clypeus is oval and entire in front ; the prothorax is 

 sub-triangular, with the posterior angles rounded; the abdomen 

 above is chestnut-coloured, the terminal joint having a transverse 

 yellow facia with a conical apical spot of chestnut. 



Length 24 mm. 



Hab. Port Natal." 



I have not seen this gaily-coloured species. 



Gen. MACROMINA, Westw., 

 Thesaur. Entomol. Oxon., 1874, p. 15. 



"Body oblong-ovate, convex, suture of elytra sub-depressed. 

 Upper lobe of maxillae strong, elongated, falciform, strongly uni- 

 dentate at apex, inner lobe with a bifid tooth, the upper part larger 



