Descriptive Catalogue of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 173 
Meloe hottentotus, Paring., 
Plate XXII., fig. 4. 
Trans. S. Afric. Phil. Soc, iii., 1886, p. 123. 
Dark blue, moderately shiny ; head broader than the prothorax and 
covered with deep sub-foveolate round punctures closely set and separated 
by a nearly smooth interval, there is no median groove in the vertex or 
above the epistome ; antennae long, reaching to about the median part of 
the elytra, the fifth, sixth, and seventh joints are broader than the others 
in both sexes, being very broadly dilated and hollowed underneath in the 
male ; prothorax longer than broad, ampliate rounded laterally in front 
and having thus no distinct neck, not grooved longitudinally in the centre 
but having there an ill-defined smooth line covered with deep foveate 
punctures set close to each other especially in the anterior part, and 
transversely impressed along the base for about two-thirds of the width ; 
posterior angles distinct ; elytra divaricating past the median part, covered 
with sub-contiguous, raised wavy folds ; abdomen shagreened. 
Length 12-16 mm. ; width 4-7 mm. 
Hah. Cape Colony (Port Elizabeth) ; Natal (Durban, Maritzburg) ; 
Transvaal (Lydenburg). 
Sub-Family CANTHAEIN^. 
Head transverse or quadrate ; anterior part parallel, not cuneiform. 
B^. Mandibles prolonged, very sharp. 
Labrum extremely short, mandibles very robust, unidentate in- 
wardly ; palps long. 
Upper part of the claws pectinate. 
Elytra covering the abdomen, not dehiscent along the suture . . . . Hoeiini. 
B^ Mandibles not prolonged. 
C^. Antennae arcuate, last joint thickened externally. 
Upper part of the claws not pectinate. 
Number of joints varying from eleven to seven ; elytra not 
dehiscent at apex . . Mylabrini. 
Antennae straight, last joint not thickened externally. 
Number of joints eleven ; elytra covering the abdomen but 
occasionally broadly rounded at the apex of the suture . . Cantharini. 
D^ Upper part of the claws pectinate. 
Number of joints eleven ; elytra not covering completely 
the abdomen, strongly sinuate laterally and dehiscent along 
the suture from near the scutellum Sitakini. 
A^ Head triangular, anterior part cuneiform. 
Maxillary lobes slender, elongate or greatly prolonged and even setaceous Zonitini. 
