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longer, is narrower, the posterior strangulation less deep, the 

 transverse folds of the surface much rougher and not so numerous, 

 and the humeral angle of the elytra is wanting ; the flavous margin 

 of the elytra is lacerated, the anterior part leading to the spur 

 prominently directed inwards is wanting with the exception of a 

 minute humeral macule, and the spur itself is placed hardly beyond 

 the median part. The upper side of the elytra is opaque, nearly 

 black, the thorax, head, and margin of elytra have an obscure 

 metallic sheen. 



Hab. Interior of Mozambique. 



Myemecopteea gunningi. 



Bronze-black, slightly cyaneous laterally and underneath, foveae 

 on the elytra with a bright coppery sheen on the male ; head and 

 prothorax as in M. clathrata, Kl. ; elytra, with five distinct costae, 

 reaching to about two-thirds of the length, and a supra-marginal one 

 short, slender, beginning at about one- third of the length and 

 reaching behind as far as the fifth costa ; intervals very broadly and 

 deeply foveate, posterior part closely rugoso-punctate ; antennae very 

 broadly foliate, labrum black with a narrow median flavescent line 

 in both sexes ; elytra plane in the male, very convex and consider- 

 ably broader in the female, ending in two sharp, recurved, and 

 moderately long spines in the male, and blunt in the female. 

 Length 18-23 mm. 



This species is easily distinguished from M. clathrata, Klug, by 

 the much more foliate antennae, the very much broader foveae on 

 the elytra, and the short supra-lateral carina ; the elytra are also 

 more convex, and the carinae, as well as the foveate intervals, are 

 produced a little further towards the apex ; there is no white patch 

 in all the examples I have seen. It is also allied to M. grandis, Per. 

 which is distinguished from the present species by the more 

 depressed elytra (female) ; the foveae are nearly similar, but the two 

 outer carinae are nearer to one another in M . grandis ; there is no 

 supra-marginal one, and they are on the whole shorter ; the antennas, 

 however, are equally foliate. I mistook two examples of this species 

 from Barberton in the Transvaal for varieties of M. grandis, but 

 now, thanks to the courtesy of Dr. J. W. B. Gunning, Director of 

 the Transvaal State Museum, I have been able to examine a good 

 series of this very distinct species. 



Hab. Transvaal (Barberton, Leydenburg). 



