172 Transactions of the Boyal Society of South Africa. 
Length (excl. of abdomen) 12-16 mm. ; width 7-12 mm. 
Hah. Cape Colony (Cape Town, Malmesbury, Stellenbosch, Paarl, 
Worcester, Namaqualand, Knysna). 
Meloe meeidianus, Per., 
Trans. S. Afric. Phil. Soc, iv., 1892, p. 12. 
Very dark blue, moderately shiny ; head broader than the anterior part 
of the prothorax and covered with round, deep, sub-foveolate punctures 
the intervals of which are somewhat broad and smooth, the posterior part 
of the vertex is only slightly sinuate in the centre but not canaliculate ; 
prothorax straight laterally but narrower at the base than in the anterior 
part, the hind angles are distinct although not acuminate, the anterior 
ones are also plain, although slightly blunt, but from there the anterior part 
is strongly narrowed obliquely, the median part is very broadly grooved 
from apex to base, there are no traces of a supra-marginal lateral longi- 
tudinal depression, and the surface is covered with deep, foveate punctures 
separated by a narrow, somewhat raised smooth wall ; elytra divaricating 
at about one half of the length and covered with highly raised, very wavy 
longitudinal folds separated from each other by an interval wider than the 
fold itself ; abdomen longitudinally shagreened ; legs densely but briefly 
pubescent. 
Length 10-14 mm. ; width 6-7|- mm. 
Hah. Ovampoland (Omaramba) ; Southern Ehodesia (Plumtree) ; 
Transvaal (Waterberg, Zoutpansberg). 
Meloe caffer, Pering., 
Trans. S. Afric. Phil. Soc, iii., 1886, p. 123. 
Dark blue, somewhat purple on the head and prothorax, moderately 
shiny ; head slightly wider than the prothorax at its widest part, deeply 
and irregularly scrobiculate punctate, and having in the centre a deep 
median groove reaching from the vertex to the central part and continued 
thence to the transverse groove ; prothorax sub-quadrate, slightly narrower 
at base than at apex, the posterior angles are slightly rounded, the anterior 
lateral part is slightly ampliate with the outer angles rounded, the upper 
side is more deeply scrobiculate than the head, there is a very deep and 
broad median longitudinal groove and a parallel depression on each side 
of the disk ; elytra divaricating at about one half of the length, and 
covered with longitudinal highly raised and greatly wavy carinate folds 
which are twice as narrow as the intervals ; abdominal segments very 
closely shagreened; legs very briefly pubescent. 
Length 10^-15 mm. ; width 4-7 mm. 
Hah. Natal (Durban, Maritzburg) ; Transvaal (Lydenburg). 
