Descriptive Catalogue of the Goleoptera of South Africa, 
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Larva A. ? Mylabris. 
Body pale flavescent. Head broad, anterior frontal part with a 
triangular grooved area the apex of which reaches past the centre, and 
nearly meets there another inverted triangle obtuse at apex, and some- 
what in the shape of a scutellum ; clypeal part broadly transverse, and 
bearing several longitudinal grooves with raised intervals, the suture 
separating it from the frontal part is very distinct, and above that suture 
are two short, stiff setae ; the labrum is broad, sub-quadrate, but deeply 
sinuate in the centre of the apical margin, and covers the well-developed 
falcate mandibles ; the maxillary and labial palps are thick with the apical 
joint very small, and as if planted in the centre of the preceding one, that 
of the maxillary is not very distinctly bi-articulate ; the antennae are 
almost like the palps, but a little longer, and seemingly four-jointed, 
and there are three convex ocelli set in a longitudinal line, the apical 
nearly touching the base of the antennae ; prothoracic ring, rigid, smooth 
above, meso- and metathoracic wrinkled, folded above and laterally and 
hardly distinguishable from the abdominal segments ; all the elliptical 
tracheal openings very distinct ; behind the tracheal opening is a slight 
swelling bearing a short seta ; the 3-6 ventral segments and also the 
ultimate one have on each side a conspicuous swelling greatly resembling 
the pseudo-legs of caterpillars, with a longitudinal ovate elongate opening 
the inner margin of which is fringed with twelve acute chitinous hooks 
bent outwardly, and each of these false legs bear from two to four rigid 
setae ; the four-jointed short legs end in a moderately sharp, little incurved 
claw, and the posterior are slightly shorter than the others ; the body is 
glabrous except for the few rigid setae mentioned, but on the very finely 
aciculate dorsal part each segment, including the thoracic ones, has a 
supra-lateral, smooth, raised stigma bearing a very short hair, and a 
similar one, almost lateral and situated near the hind border of the 
segment. 
Length 13 mm. ; width 5 mm. 
This larva was blown by a gale of wind from the .ever-shifting sand 
dunes in the neighbourhood of Cape Town. The only wasps noticed 
there belong to a species of Bemhex. 
The presence of the ocelli point clearly to it being the second larval 
form, or Caraboid larva, of a Meloid going probably to turn into the 
Scarabaeoid larva. Its size, however, is such that it can hardly be that 
of a Cantharid or Zonitid of the kinds occurring in that locality. I doubt 
if it can be that of a Meloe, because the larvae of the different species of 
this genus known are not provided with the abdominal false legs. But 
the second instar or metamorphosis of the species of the genus Mylahris 
