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A DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF THE COLEOPTERA OF SOUTH AFRICA. BY L. PERINGUEY, F.E.S., Assistant Curator of the South African Museum. WITH TEN PLATES. ‘2x2 FAO io Aw Ge i, %. 3 ad byt fase a J bs «# K 9 CAPE TOWN: PUBLISHED BY THE SOCIETY. 1896. Digitized by the Internet Archive ~ in 2011 with funding from The Field Museum's Africa Council http://www.archive.org/details/transactionsofso0/roya ites ep Ge yp | Turs first part of a-descriptive catalogue of the South-African Coleoptera is intended to facilitate the identification of the insects belonging to | that order. oaeurdis A local fauna can only give an approximate idea of that of a con- tinent, or of a well-defined area of distribution ; it has, however, an advantage, inasmuch as the identification of a limited number of species is made easier for the beginner. I have taken as a limit to the South-African fauna a line running roughly from Mozambique in the East to Mossamedes in the West, or about 16° of latitude South. | This limit is, of course, an arbitrary one, as all such limits must per- force be, but I have adopted it because the difference, generic as well as specific, seems to me to be more marked four degrees north of that line (10° 8.J..) than four degrees south of it (20° 8.1L.) On the Kastern side this difference -is not so striking as in the West, and there exists a great affinity with the fauna of the Zanzibar mainland, Mombassa, Somaliland and Abyssinia. | All along the sea-coast extends a narrow tropical helt, which seems to end in the neighbourhood of D’Urban, Natal, and where many of the most northern types occur, and [ believe that if the sea-board extending from D’Urban to St. Lucia Bay was carefully searched, nearly all the species found on the 14° of lat. would also be met with there. In the west the difference in the fauna from that of the East is very sensible and the 22° longitude may be regarded as a good dividing line, and it is in the Cape Colony that this change is especially striking, the coleoptera of Little Namaqualand differ widely from those of Natal. The fauna of Damaraland and Ovampoland is also greatly differen- tiated from that of Central Angola. I have adopted the use of Genera and Sub-Genera, of Species and Varieties. It is so difficult now-a-days to agree on the respective value of some generic and specific characters that I prefer to leave to the student to decide if the small difference of colouring, size or sculpture, of what I consider a variety, should be regarded as constituting a sp: cies. ‘This catalogue cannot be regarded as final. Zanzibar, Gazaland, the northern parts of Ovampoland, will in all probability yield new forms of the wingless genera Myrmecoptera, Dromwa, Cosmem4. South-African Museum, (ape Town, 1st December, 1892. YS YY YY ™ YY YoYo ERRATA. Page 8, line 15, read Castelnau instead of Castelnan, Sy 5 1G, © tuberculata, mild, a5. 21, 43, , plate Jil. sinstead sorehie <5 WUE » Prodotes, T. Thoms., Ann. Fr., 1856, p. 332. PLATES. Plate I, fig. 1, read Mantichora ferox, Péring,, instead of M/. Ludovici, Cast. » I, » 5, 4 Cicindela notata, Bohem., instead of C, notata, Péring. » i, ,, 3, 4, Ophkryodera instead of Ophrydera, CONTENTS. ann A Descriptive Catalogue of the Coleoptera of South Africa. PAGE FAMILY CICINDELIDE . : ‘ ‘ ‘ : 1 INDEX . ¢ ; F ; ; : O& SUPPLEMENT : é 7 : ; : 99 INDEX TO SUPPLEMENT . i i : s DIL FAMILY CARABID 5 RS ADDENDA : ; i if : 602 — CORRECTIONS : ; ; » IY INDEX: . ‘ te ; ct 613 Puates I. ro X. S105! Se KOKG dowel al oe PL Ole WVORKS QUOD IN PARios i AND i. (CICINDELIDAU—CARA BID.) Batrs, H. W. Notes on Cicindelide and Carabide, and descriptions of new species. Nos. 15 and 19. Entomologist’s Monthly Magazine, 1872, vol. vill., pp. 285-287. Loc. cit., vol. xi., pp. 177-180. Notes on Cicindelide and Carabide, &c. No.19. Loc. cit., 1875, vol. xi., pp. 177-180. ae Description of twenty-five new species of Cicindelide. Crstwla Entomologica, 1875-1882, vol. ii., Part xxxvIll., pp. 329-336. _ Tropical African Coleoptera, chiefly from the Zanzibar Mainland. Ento- mologist’s Monthly Magazine, 1886, vol. xxii., pp. 188-197; 1887, vol. xxiil., pp. 9-13, 54-57 ; 1888, vol. xxiv., pp. 200-203. BERTOLONI, G. Tllustrazione dei prodoti naturali del Mozambico. Illustratio rerum natu- ralium Mozambic. Coleoptera. Dissert., 1-5, 1845-1858 (1-3, Nuovi Ann. Sc. Nat. Bologn. ; 4-5, Memor. Acad. Sc. Inst. Bologn.). Coleoptera nova Mozambicana. Rendic. dell. Acad. Scien. Bologn., 1846- 1847, pp. 216-219; 1847-1848, pp. 35-38; 1854-1855, pp. 51-53; 1856— 1857, pp. 80-82. Nuov. Ann. Scien. Nat. Bologn., series 2, 1848, pp. 79- 82; pp. 293-296. Sept espéces nouvelles de Coléoptéres carnassiers de Mozambique. Kevwe et Mag. de Zoologie, series 2, 1859, vol. ii., pp. 39-40. ' BoHEMAN, C. H. Insecta Cafirariz, annis 1838-1845,a J. A. Wahlberg collecta. Part 1., 1848- 1851. Holmiae, 297 pp. - Kongliga Svenska Fregatten Hugenies Resa omkring Jorden unter Befall of C. A. Virgin, 1851-1853 (Coleoptera). Stockholm, 1858, 4°, 183 pp. Coleoptera samlade af J. A. Wahlberg i Syd-Vestra Afrika. Ofvers. K. Vet. Acad. Férh., 1860, pp. 3-120. ; Bonewui, F. A. | Observations Entomologiques (Carabide). Part 1. Mémoires de l Acadénvie des Sciences de Turin, 1809; Part 1. Loc. cit., 1813, p. 108. BreEmME, F. DE : Insectes Coléoptéres nouveaux ou peu connus. Amnal. Sociét. Hntom. de France, 1844, pp. 287-313. vii vill Bibliography. BRULLE, A. Histoire naturelle des Insectes, &c. Paris, 1834-1838, 8vo, 4 vols. Observations critiques sur la synonymie des Carabiques. Silberman’s Revue Entomologique, 1834, vol. ii., pp. 89-114. ; CASTELNAU, F. L. DE LAPORTE Histoire naturelle et iconographique des Coléoptéres. Paris, 1835-1840, 8vo, vols. i. and ii. Coléoptéres. Etudes entomologiques ou description des Insectes nouveaux, &c. (Carnas- siers). Paris, 1834, 8vo. Monographie des Mantichores. Revwe Zoologique, 1863, p. 64, et sequitur. CHAuDoIR, M. DE Description de quelques genres nouveaux et de quelques espéces nouvelles ou inédites de Carabiques. Bullet. de la Société impériale des Naturalistes de Moscow, 1837, vol. x., pp. 1-20. Genres nouveaux et espéces nouvelles de Coléoptéres de la famille des Cara- biques. Loc. ctt., 1837, vol. x., pp. 1-50. Tableau d’une nouvelle subdivision du genre Feronia, Dejean. Loc. cit., 1838, vol. x., pp. 3-82. Description de quelques genres nouveaux de la famille des Carabiques. Loc. cit., 1842, vol. xv., pp. 381-407; 1843, vol. xvi., pp. 383-430. Carabiques nouveaux. Loc. cit., 1848, vol. xvi., pp. 675-791. Trois Mémoires sur la famille des Carabiques. oc. cit., 1844, vol. xvii., pp. 416-480. Note sur le groupe des Stomides. Loc. cit., 1846, vol. xix. Mémoires sur la famille des Carabiques. Loc. cit., 1848, Part 1., vol. xxi., pp. 38-1384; 1850, Part u1., vol. xxiil., pp. 3-196: 1852, Part m1., vol. xxv., pp. 3-104 ; 1854, Part tIv., vol. xxvii., pp. 112-219; 1855, Part v., vol. xxvill., pp. 1-110; 1856, Part vi., vol. xxix., pp. 187-292; 1857, vol. xxx., pp. 1-64. Matériaux pour servir a l’étude des Cicindélétes et des Carabiques. Loc. cit., 1860, vol. xxxiv., pp. 269-337 ; 1861, vol. xxxiv., pp. 491-577 ; 1862, vol. XXxv., pp. 275-321. Essai monographique sur le genre Abacetus, Dejean. Looc. cit., 1869, vol. xli., pp. 355-410. Monographie des Lébiides. Loc. cit., 1870, vol. xliii., pp. 111-255 ; 1871, vol. xliv., pp. 1-87. Monographie des Graphiptérides. Loc. cit., 1870, vol. xliii., pp. 282-340. Observations sur quelques genres de Carabiques avec la description d’espéces nouvelles. Loc. cit., 1872, vol. xlv., p. 382. Matériaux pour servir 4 l’étude des Féroniens. Loc. cit., 1873, vol. xlvii., pp. 85-114 ; 1874, vol. xlviii., pp. 1-34. Genres aberrants du groupe des Cymindides. Joc. cit., 1875, vol. xlix., pp. 1-61. Monographie des Siagonides. oc. cit., 1876, vol. 1., pp. 1-64. Etude monographique des Masoréides et Tétragonodérides. Loc. cit., 1876, vol. li., pp. 1-84. Genres nouveaux et espéces inédites de la famille des Troncatipennes. Loe. cit., 1877, vol. lii., pp. 1-81. Description de genres nouveaux et d’espéces inédites de Carabiques. Loc. cit., 1878, vol. liii., pp. 1-80. Essai monographique sur les Morionides. Loc. cit., 1880, pp. 1-68. Description d’espéces nouvelles de Cicindéles et Carabiques. Revue et Magasin de Zoologie, 1862, 7 pp. Description de Cicindélétes et de Carabiques nouveaux. Loc. cit., 1863, March-April (author’s copy), pp. 1-18. Note sur les genres Dromica, Tricondyla et Collyris. oc. cit., 1864, 7 pp. Description d’une Anthia inédite et de quatre Polyhirma. Loc. cit., 1866, pp. 10-73. : Note monographique sur le genre Omophron. Loc. cit., 1868, pp. 54-63. Description d’espéces nouvelles de Carabiques de la tribu des Troncatipennes. Loc. cit., 1872, pp. 101-138, 168-212, 241. Bibliography. 1X Catalogue des Cicindéles et des Carabiques recueillis par M. Achille Raffray en Abyssinie avec la description des espéces nouvelles. Loc. cit., 1876 pp. 329-388. Enumération des Cicindélétes et des Carabiques recueillis par M. Achille Raffray dans les iles de Zanzibar, &c., avec description d’espéces nou- velles. Loc. cit., 1878, pp. 69-103, 145-161, 175-194. Mémoire sur les Thyréoptérides et les Coptodérides. Annales de la Société Fintomologique de Belgique, 1869, vol. xii., pp. 113-256. Essai monographique sur le groupe des Pogonides. oc. cit., 1871, vol. xiii., . 22-61. , Hee thonographigue sur les Orthogoniens. Joc. cit., 1872, vol. xiv., pp. 95-130. Essai monographique sur les Drimostomides et les Cratocérides et descrip- tion, &e. Moc! c2t., 1872, vol. xv., pp. 0-23. Monographie des Callidides. Joc. cit., 1872, vol. xv., pp. 97-204. Monographie des Brachynides. Joc. cit., 1876, vol. xix., pp. 1-104. Essai monographique sur les Panagéides. Woes Cit: SiS, Vol," oe. A Dees & = ‘ > Pepe oe : - “ 5 i 4 ; © ad so nce ee ; : : ee er tL ek ae y ; : ke. . Pe Pee eee aes ; a THE TRANSACTIONS OF THE pouth RAlrran Philosophirat Suctety. LPEPEIPE IPL OLLI LF LLL LPI LIF I IFO DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF THE COLEOPTERA OF SOUTH AFRICA. By L.. Périneuny, F.E.S., F.Z.8., Ere., Asst. Curator SoutH AFRIcAN MusEUM. LLP LLL DOL PART I. Order: COLEOPTERA. Family : CICINDELID.~. Mentum notched, labium very short, hidden by the mentum ; maxillee long, slender, ciliated inwardly, ending in an articulated hook, and with an inner palpiform, bi-articulated process; mandibles long, falcate, with several teeth on the inner curve ; palpi quadri-articulated ; antenne with eleven joints ; legs slender, nearly always very long ; tibize not notched on the inner side ; tarsi five jointed. be M. L. Péringuey’s Descriptive Catalogue -[Nov. 30, Lacordaire (Gener. d. Coleopt. t. 1. 1854, p. 5) divides this family into five tribes, three of which only are represented in South Africa! : 1.¢.— 1. Maxille ending in an articulated hook. (A.) Third joint of the maxillary palpi longer than the fourth. a. First joint of the labial palpi hardly longer than the depth of the notch in the mentum. MANTICHORIDA. b. First joint of the labial palpi longer than the depth of the notch in the mentum. MEGACEPHALID. (B) Third joint of the maxillary palpi shorter than the fourth. | CICINDELIDA. Tribe : MANTICHORIDA. Palpi moderately long, the labial and maxillary of about the same length, both with the apical joint slightly flattened at the tip; no wings under the. elytra, six abdominal segments in both sexes,? the anterior tarsi not dilated in the male. A, Abdomen with six segments in both sexes, anteriof tarsi not dilated in the male. MANTICHORA. B. Abdomen with seven segments in the male, six in the female, anterior tarsi of the male dilated : PLATYCHILE. Gen. MANTICHORA. Fabric. Syst. Hleuth. 1. 1801. p. 167. Mentum broadly notched, and with a strongly developed, median, slightly hooked tooth ; mandibles long, broad, very powerful, labrum with six sharp teeth in front, palpi slightly flattened at the tip ; antenne filiform, the seven apical joints slightly pubescent; head broad, eyes prominent with two orbital ridges on each side, one above 'The other two tribes are Collyride and Ctenostomide. 2The last segment, owing to a deep, narrow groove at the base, seems to be bi-segmented. It is not so, however, as I did not find any spiracle in connection with that groove. 1892. ] of the Coleoptera of South Africa, — 3. the other ; prothorax short, narrowed in the anterior part, the posterior developed behind in two lobes, broadly notched in the centre ; elytra soldered together, plane or slightly convex, deeply depressed at the base for the reception of the prothoracic lobes, declivous behind, more or. less densely set with short, setigerous granules, which are more closely set, larger and have longer hairs at the declivity ; legs long, with strong bristles, tarsi not grooved, the anterior ones not dilated in the male ; six abdominal segments in both sexes, the penultimate one not incised in the male. The male has long, falciform mandibles, the left one overlapping the right, which is longer in the curve, furnished with two large, triangular, flat inner teeth, with one or more minor teeth between, and a bi or trifid one at the very base ; the elytra are always more or less ampliated in the middle, almost parallel, (¢uberculata) cordiform, (mygaloides, scabra) or even nearly orbicular, (ferox) with the disk plane or a little convex, and gradually or abruptly declivous behind. The female has shorter mandibles, each one with two inner flat teeth, one near the base, the other in the centre, besides the bifid one “at the very base; the elytra not being narrowed at the base look more nearly parallel, they are more convex ata short distance from the base, more abruptly declivous behind, and are more closely granulated, and the granules more pronounced. Mantichora are black insects, that perched high on their legs move about in the dry barren plains of the Karoo, in a jerky impetuous manner, which implies a bold, fearless temper, evidently aware of its physical power. They do not emit, like the Anthia, a volatile fluid, in spite of the assertion to that effect, but they inflict a somewhat painful bite on the would-be captor if they are allowed an opportunity of doing so. The greater development of the mandibles of the male has probably been acquired for the purpose of seizing hold, as they do, of the broad neck of the female for mating. The males are very pugnacious among themselves, I am still wondering what the Mantichora prey upon, and I am not at all satisfied that ants are their staple food, although I have several times seen examples wiih heads of soldiers of Formica rufopilosa fixed by their jaws on antenne or legs. 4 M. L. Péringuey’s Descriptive Catalogue [Noy. 30, I met once with a great number of M/, tuberculata in the ne‘ghbour- hood of Kimberley. It was after a moderate shower of rain (December) on a barren, dry, red-coloured soil, where one could hardly expect to come across much of insect life. Yet close search revealed the presence of a few grass-hoppers, the females of which are devoid of wings, Hoplolopha asina, Sauss, and which owing to their colouring adapt themselves so well to their immediate surroundings as to be very difficult of detection. Graphiplerus (Carabide) were. also fairly plentiful. I found several vertical galleries of the larve, which were, however, on the alert, and would descend rapidly as | drew near the entrance. The ground was too hard to excavate, and nos would not be lured out of their burrows. . [had probably alighted on a special breeding place, as I could have afer captured more than two hundred examples of Mantichora in a few hours. | | I found one sort of ant only in that locality, and it was not plenti- ful, and although I have no doubt that a Mantichora can easily attack an Hoplolopha, J still wonder at the kind of prey made use of by the larva, unless it is the white ant, Termes, spec. which swarms in huge numbers after a shower of rain. That food was, however, scarce in that locality was evidenced by the small size of most of my captured specimens, some of them being the smallest I have yet seen. To this scarcity or abundance of nutritive material is probably due the great diversity in size and sculpture, which makes tle specific study of this genus so very difficult. ) Although Mantichora is, as stated, generally found running in open bare spots, Mr, J. H. Brady informs me that he has captured it under stones in the neighbourhood of Port Elizabeth (Cape Colony). Rev. H. Junod, of Rikatla, near Lourenzo Marquez (Delagoa Bay) writes that the natives there are in the habit of crushing with their foot this beetle, which, aceording tv them, has a nauseating smell, and it is a common occurrence to meet with a Martichora with crushed elytra. So far as is now known the genus Mantichora is not met with north of the Equator. 1892.] of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 5 I have seen examples from Mozambique, and. also one (British Museum) from Lake Nyassa. I am not aware of any specimens having been captured on the Zanzibar mainland, although the entomological fauna of that part of Africa is now pretty well known, so far as the large-sized beetles are concerned. Thus the limit of the range in the Hastern part of Africa would seem to be about the tenth degree of ‘atitude South, while in the Western side one species (Jf. congoensis, Péring.) has been captured on the Congo River, z.e., about four degrees more north than on the eastern side. This Congo species is small, about the size of tuberculata, while the South African species are larger in the northern parts. However dissimilar the facies of a full-grown Mantichora is to that of a Cicindela, the larval state is almost identical. Herr H. J. Kolbe has described (Berl. Entom. Zeit. 1885 p. 48) what he considered to be the larva of Mantichora, from an incomplete example collected at Barmen, a mission station in Damaraland. Through the kindness of Mr. E. G. Alston, of Van Wyk’s Vley, Cape Colony, I am able to give the description of what is undoubtedly the larva of Mantichora tuberculata, Megacephala not having heen met with in that locality :— Body of thirteen segments, head plane, horny with a trapeziform, distinct labrum denticulated at the tip, set with regularly-disposed, short, setigerous tubercles, and a few rigid long bristles, the hind margin bristly, pale yellow, with the labrum infuscated, a transverse brown depressed line starting on each side from the point of insertion of the antenne, and culminating in a brown fossa ; two longitudinal brown lines in the centre, above the labrum, and a larger, also brown, fossa on each side of the base. Width of head, 7™™ ; mandibles lung, arcuated above the labrum, and with a long, stout inner tooth ; under- side very convex, bristly, with a long groove in the centre ; mentum cordiform ; labium quadrangular, bristly, with two median three- jointed, short palpi, and two lateral ones, each of these with a long stout basal joint, longer than the second, which bears two smaller ones, the outer une of which is three-jointed, while the inner one is single ; antenrw quadri-articulated, with the basal articulation very thick ; 6 M. L. Péringuey’s Descriptive Catalogue [Nov. 30, four eyes on each side set on a very prominent black process, stichtly bristly, the two upper ones very large, the lower ones hardly discernible ; the three thoracic segments horny, the first one 94™-™ wide, semi-lunar, broader than the head, and one-third longer, grooved in the centre, and with four dark impressions, two on each side of the median groove, carinated all round, with the outer carina set with short bristles, the second one, parallel, half the size of: the first, grooved in the centre with a sub-lateral depression on each side, the third one trapezoid, shorter than the second and broader, the fourth, fifth, sixth ani seventh horny above and underneath, the eighth with two large hirtose, fleshy tubercles, with a distinct horny ridge in the centre, and each tubercle with two curved sharp spines, the outer one twice as long as the inner ene, ninth segment also raised . . . the other three have been crushed, eack segment with lateral fascicles of hairs ; legs five-jointed, tarsi with two claws, the inner one twice as long as the outer one. Length, 38™"™ It is almost impossible to identify quite accurately the species de- seribed by different authors and included in this genus. For a long time only one species, 7.¢., M. tuberculata, De Geer! (1778) was known; it was described anew by Thunberg? (1781), and by Fabricius? (p. 101). One wonders at such a conspicuous insect not having come under the notice of Linnceus. Waterhouse, in 1837, described another (a female), aud gave it the name of latipennis. Klug, in a monograph of the geuus (1849),> described and figured the male of latipennis, and also three other species: 2.¢., herculeana, scabra, and granulata, and Boheman in 18486 had added one species, 2e., tibialis. Jas. Thomson, in 1859,7 made an attempt at monographing the 'Mém. Insect. VIT., 1878, p. 623, t. 46, fig, 14. "Nov. Ins. Spec. 1781, p. 25, t. 1, fig. 38. 3Syst. Eleuther, 1801, p. 167. 4Ann, and Mag. Nat. History, 1, 1837, p. 593, fig. 62. SMonogr. Lin. Ent. IV., p. 417. °Coleopt. Caffrar, 7™Monogr. des Cicind, 1892. ]} of the Coleoptera of South Africa. q genus ; he criticised several of the species already described, added two new ones, but although figuring the four species, which, according to him, form the genus, he cannot be said to have made clear the specific characters ; moreover, he makes egregious mistakes. De Castelnau again, in 1863,! revised the genus, accepting, as well established all but one of the species of Thomson, and _ their synonyms, and added three more species, making the total ten. De Chandoir, in the Catalogue of the Cicindelide in his Collection (1865), adopts another synonymy for some of the species, although he had, doubtless, access to Thomson's and to Mniszech’s collections. Gemminger and Harold, in their Catalogus Coleoplerorum (1868) have partly followed Castelnau’s revision of the genus. Few collections possess a good series of Mantichora, and the exact habitat of several species is not recorded accurately : it must not be forgotten that even at the time of De Castelnau’s stay in South Africa, the country beyond the Orange River was almost an unknown land, crossed only by a few hunters and naturalists. Wingless insects are also, owing to the limited area over which they can roam, more prone to making races than winged ones ; thus there are very slight differences in shape, granulation and size produced in different localities, owing to abundance or scarcity of food caused by droughts.? If to this we add that some so-called species have been described from one or two examples, we can easily understand the difficulty experienced in identifying them anew, even after examination of the types. According to Klug there are According to Thomson there 5 species. are 4 species. 1. M. tuberculata, De Geer. Caffraria. 1. M. tuberculata, De Geer, Cape | (Port Elizabeth). gigantea. ‘Yhunb. do. _ maxillosa. Fabric. 1Revue Zoologique. *In places, other than the Karoo, where abnormal atmospheric conditions occur but seld>m, the size of Mantichora varies but little; whereas Karoo examples vary enormously in size, 8 M. L. Peéringuey’s Descriptive Catalogue [Nov. 30, maxiliosa. Fabric. Caffraria. gigantea. Thunb. tibialis. Bohem. do. tuberculata. Guerin. 2. M. granulata, Klug. Inter.S. Afric. granulata. Klug. 3. M. scabra, »» Mozambique. Dreget. ? 4. M. latipennis. Waterh. Natal. tibialis. Bohem. 5. M. herculeana. Klug. Interior of Mozamb. 2: M. Sichelii. Thoms., Border of Caffraria. 3. M. mygaloides. Thoms. Mozam- bique, Natal. 4, M. latipennis. Waterh. Kurri- chan, Mozambique. scabra. Klug. herculeana. Klag. Castelnan tabulates them as follows :— 1. M. tubercula'a. De Geer, Klug. Karoo. | Thoms. gigantea. Thunb., Guér. mazillosa. Fabric., Oliv. 2. M. tibialis Bohem. Caffraria. 3. M. Dregei. Casteln. ? 4, M. Sichelii. Thoms. Orange River. 5. M. scabra. Klug. Mozambique. 6. M. herculeana. Klug. : Mozambique. 7. M. Ludovici. Casteln. Natal. 8. M. latipennis. Waterhouse. 9. M. Livingstoni. Casteln. 10. M. mygaloides. Thoms. Mozambique Now I have been fortunate enough in being able to examine numerous series of Mantichora from nearly all parts of South Africa, as far as Mozambique in the Hast to Ovampoland in the West. I had also, four years ago, access fur purposes of identification to the collections of De Chaudoir, now in the Paris Museum, of De Mniszech, owned by Mons. René Obertheir, in Rennes,! and to that of the British Museum ;? "Which contains if not Castelnau’s types, at least examples submitted to him. The Genoa Museum acquired Castelnau’s Carabidae, but not the Cicindelide. 2Contains, i believe, Thomson’s types. 1892. ] of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 9 and I propose another arrangement of the species, laying stress, how- ever, on the extreme difficulty of identifying the varieties. I do not myself believe that I have done better than those who have attempted this classification before, and I am not quite satisfied with my own. arrangement, yet I believe it will make identification more easy than heretofore. I recognise 7 species :— 1. M. tuberculata. De Geer. gigantea. Thunb. maaillosa. Fabric. granulata. Klug. Dreget. Casteln. Sicheli. Thoms. var. tibialis. Bohem. 2, M. mygaloides. Thoms. Ludovice. Casteln. var. damarensis. Péring. 3. M. Livingstoni. Casteln. 4, M. latipennis. Waterh. 5. M. herculeana. Klug. 6. M. scabra. Klug. var. pseudo scabra. Péring. 7 Mie ferox. Péring.. The facies is very much the same for all the species, the difference being mostly in size, greater or lesser ampliation of the elytra in the middle and the declivity behind ; the colour is black, sometimes dark- brown ; the shape of the mandibles is nearly the same (I. ferox ex- cepted), the head and prothorax are always vaguely punctured and have a few rigid bristles, the granulation consists of small, sharp, conical tubercles, directed backwards and carrying a fine bristle, this granula- tion is always more defined and closely set at the declivity where there is also a more or less distinct apical tuberculated ridge on each side, 'T have had to modify my arrangement as given in my 3rd centrib, to S, Afric, Coleopt. Trans, §, Afric. Phil. Soc., 1892. 10 M. L. Peéringuey’s Descriptive Catalogue [Nov. 30, each elytron has a fine dorsal raised line, better defined on the under part of the wing case than on the upper, and the outer sides are atrongly serrated, with the humeral tubercle acute and more developed than the others in the male, while that of the female is very small. The females are so very much alike that, with the exception of feroz, it is almost impossible to distinguish them, and I have therefore based my synopsis on male characters alone :— SYNOPSIS. ILyTRA : Nearly parallel, sloping gradually behird, the median anterior dorsal part nearly smooth, tuberculata. , with the whole disk covered with small, closely set | tubercles, tibiz and basal joints of antenne mostly reddish or reddish black. var. tibialis, a ampliated in the middle, slightly convex in the disk, gradually sloping behind, disk smooth in the anterior part. mygaloides, var. damarensis: 5 elongated, slightly ampliated in the middle, very plane, retuse behind, disk smooth in the anterior part. Living stoni.. i slightly ampliated in the middle, gradually sloping behind with the sutural part of the declivity much depressed, slightly granulated on the disk : herculeana, p very little ampliated in the middle, gradually sloping behind and retuse apically, closely granulated all over, the tubercles very conspicuous. scabra. latipennis, 5 very cordiform, short, the posterior part more raised than the anterior, very retuse behind, and strongly granulated all over. var, pseudo-scabra, a3 nearly orbicular, quite smooth, and shining on the disk and sides, slightly tuberculated behind, and the disk a little convex. Seroxr, M. TUBERCULATA. De Geer. Mém. Ins. VII. 1778, p, 623, pl. 46, fig. 14, Male: Black, moderately shining, head with a transverse impression between the point of insertion of the antenne, and two longitudinal ones on the vertex, and with a few scattered bristles ; prothorax vaguely -punctulated, although more closely in the anterior part than in the 1892. ] of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 11 posterior ; elytra with the outer sides serrated, but little ampliated in the middle (average width 14""* behind the humeral tubercles, 16"*™. in the centre, and 15™°™ at the top of the declivity), sloping gradually behind, aculeated at the apex, and covered with short setigerous. tubercles, leaving a broad, smooth space in the anterior part, the tubercles larger and more closely set at the declivity, and the hairs. longer. Length, mandibles excluded : 33-41™-™: ; width, 15-18" Female: Coloured like the male, and punctuation of head and prothorax alike ; elytra ampliated in the middle in the same proportion. as the male, but the fact ot 1ts having the humeral angle only very slightly dented, instead of sharp and protruding, as in the male, makes it look more parallel ; it is also more convex and retuse behind, the: tubercles are more closely set on the outer sides, leaving a narrower central smooth dorsal space. Length, 38-40 ; width, 16-18" Var. TIBIALIS. Bohem. Insect, Caffr. vol. 1, p. 1. Facies of the type-form, but generally a little more narrow ; the elytra are more closely tuberculated, and there is no smooth dorsal patch, although the tubercles are also smaller and not so closely set along the suture; the four basal articulations of the antenne are rufous, and so are the tibiee (examples from Griqualand West and the Vaal River have these parts black) ; the raised line on each elytron is: more distinct than in the type. Male. length, 35-40; width, 16-18. Female, , 31-38; ,, 14-17. The habitat of the type-form and of the variety differs. While tuberculata seems to be restricted to the Western part of the Colony (Paarl, Montagu, Robertson, Prince Albert, Fraserburg, Beaufort West,. Carnarvon, Little Namaqualand), the vuriety tibialis occurs in Willow- more, Port Elizabeth, Sunday River, Burghersdorp, Griqualand West,. Orange Free State, ? Transvaal, and British Bechuanaland. 12 M. L. Peringuey’s Descriptive Catalogue [Nov. 30, As must be expected, however, there are many forms of transition between the type and the variety. The M. Sicheli of Thomson, Monogr. p. 9, is evidently from his description the typical twberculata, although the figure pl. 2. fig. 1 does not show the smooth discoidal patch ; and De Castelnau, who has doubtless seen Thomson’s types, says in his Monograph: “ that Stchela is distinguished from both M. tuberculata and Drege in having the disk of the elytra less granulated, and sometimes almost smooth. In all probabilities it was ¢uberculata and not tbialis that found its way to Europe in the last century, because at that time the eastern and midland districts were either not occupied by the colonists or were not visited. M. MYGALOIDES, Thoms. Monogr, d. Cicind. 1857, p. 8 & 66, t. 2, fig. 3 & 4. » M. I udovici, Casteln. Rey. Zool. 1883, p. 70. Male: Black, or brownish black, not much shining: head broad, mandibles long and strong ; prothorax of the usual shape, with a few punctures and bristles, the anterior part more closely punctured ; elytra narrowed at the base and apex, and ampliated in the middle, the sides of the disk depressed, the median part a little convex and sloping | gradually behind ; the line on each elytron more or less pronounced, the sides from the outer margin to the dorsal line finely granulated, the outer margin serrated, with the first tooth distant from the second. Length, 46-43 5 width, e=255"" Female : Colouring of the male, elytra parallel, more or less granu- lated, the dorsal line either moderately well defined or obsolete. Length, 37-43 5 width, 18-20™-™: This species varies much in size. I have taken as the types those examples the elytra cf which are much nar owed in front and behind, and ampliated in the middle (average width, 16-17""™ behind the humeral tooth, 21 to 23™-™: in the centre, and 18-20™™ at the top of the ‘declivity). This form, however, 1892. ] of the Colecptera of South Africa. 13: of which Thomson’s figure gives a good idea, seems to be restricted to. Northern Damaraland and Ovampoland. The examples from the Limpopo region and the Transvaal, also from British Bechuanaland, are less ampliated in the centre (16™™ across the shoulders, 21™-™* in the middle, and 19™™: at the declivity), while other specimens from British Bechuana'and, Transvaal (Potchefstroom) and the Orange Free State, are hardly broader in the middle than a good size tuberculata (14™"™ at the shoulders, 18 in the middle, and 16 at the declivity), from which they are to be distinguished less by the shape than by the finer granulation. I believe that it is from one of these small examples that De Castlenau has described JZ. Ludovici, length, 32™™, width, 163"™* I cannot, however, consider it as a variety. Var. DAMARENSIS. Black, shining ; head and prothorax like the type form ; elytra more regularly cordiform, that is to say less narrowed at the base, with the whole of the disk from the outer sides gradually convex and sloping gradually behind, the sides are loosely granulated, and the sutural part nearly smooth, the outer margins are serrated as in the type. The convex shape of the upper part of the elytra, which are also rounder laterally is the distinguishing feature of this variety. I have received a small example from Lower Damaraland, almost smooth, shining, and with the elytra nearly as sub-orbicularas MM. feroz, and which, except for the differently shaped jaws, might have been taken for a variety of the latter. Length, 37-40 ; width, 18-22™-™- Female like those of mygalowles. Length, 39-41 3 width, 9D (jmeme Damaraland, vicinity of Lake N’Gami. . M LIVINGSTONI, Casteln. Revue. Zoolog. 1863, p. 71. Black, very shining, head and prothorax of mygaloides, the punctures. 14 M. L. Peéringuey’s Descriptive Catalogue |Nov. 30, and the bristles alike ; elytra more or less ampliated in the middle (17™"* across the shoulders, 21 to 24% in the middle, and 19 to 92™-™ at the declivity), long, retuse behind, plane on the disk with the outer margins raised, and very closely and sharply serrated ; the sides of the disk with a fine, dense, closely set granulation, leaving a nearly smooth discoidal space. Length, 44-46 ; width, 21-23™™- Female: Colour of the male, and very shining, much depressed or moderately convex, the granulation very close, and the raised lines on each elytron well defined. Length, 38-45 ; lat., 19-22™™ Doubtless closely allied to mygaloides, more shining as a rule and also longer. It is mostly differentiated by the serration of the outer margins, which is closer and sharper, the two humeral spines are always set at equal distance from one another, which is not the case with mygaloides ; the more elongated shape of the upper part of the elytra, with the disk very much depressed, imparts to ita different facies, although the more rotund specimens form a link with mygaloides Mr. A. W. Eriksson has collected » good number of examples of this species in Northern Ovampoland, where UM. mygaloides (typical) was aiso met with. Northern Ovampoland. M. LATIPENNIS, Waterh. Magaz. Natur. Hist. 1, 1837, p. 5063, fig. 62. Hope. The Coleopt. Manual, 1838, frontispiece part II. Klug. Linn. Entomol. IV. 1849, p. 421, pl. 11, fig. 6. Waterhouse having described this species from a female example, the identity of latipennis cannot be ascertained, and although I believe that female to have been that of mygaloides, owing to the locality from which it is said to come from, I consider as the true latipennis of Klug, if not of Waterhouse, some examples I have received from the neigh- bourhood of Delagoa Bay, and which agree very much with the figure in Klug’s monograph. 1892.] of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 15 Black, very shining ; head very broad, mandibles broad and very long ; head and prothorax of the usual shape ; elytra long, not much narrowed at the base, and very little ampliated in the centre (16 to 19™-*™ across the shoulders, 20 to 23 in the middle, and 19-21™-™ at the top of the declivity) ; plane on the disk, sloping gradually behind, and declivous at the apex, margins closely and sharply serrated, the whole of the upper part covered with a closely set, prominent granu- lation, and much more developed on tixe declivity than on the dorsal part. Length, 45-47 ; width, 20-23™-™ Although my examples of latipennis are, as a rule, not much am- pliated in the middle, yet I have received one, the elytra of which are as broad as those of scabra (19™°™ across the shoulders, 25™-™ in the middle, and 21 at the top of the declivity), the discoidal part is, how- ever, longer, and the hind part is not so much raised. Female: Colouring of the male, elytra with the whole of the disk conspicuously granulated. Length, 43-46 ; width, 20-21 Delagoa Bay (Rikatla). M. HERCULEANA, Klug. Linn. Entomol. IV., 1849, p. 423, pl. 11, fig. 7. Reise nach Mozambique, Insect, 1862, pl. VIIL, fig. 1 Male: Black, moderately shining ; head, mandibles and prothorax shaped like those of latipennis ; elytra long, not much narrowed at the base, a little ampliated in the middle (21™™* across the shoulders 24™-™- in the middle, and 23 at the top of the declivity), plane on the disk, gradually dehiscent behind, with the sutural apical part deeply depressed ; the granulation on the elytra, although close, is not much pronounced, and is denser on the sides than on the disk. Length 50; width 24™-™ The giant of the genus. 16 M. L. Péringuey’s Descriptive Catalogue [Nov. 80, Closely allied to latipennis ; the granulation of the elytra is not so dense nor so pronounced, and the depression of the suture in the posterior part is very noticeable. Mozambique. I have only a male example, but I have seen another one, I believe, from Lake Nyassa, in the British Museum. M. scaBra, Klug. Linnea. ‘Entomol. IV., 1849, p. 420, pl. 1, fig. 3 & 4. Thoms. Monegr. d.Cicind., p, 8, pl. 2, fig. 1 & 2. Reise nach. Mozamb. Insect. pl. 8, fig. 2 & 3. Black, shining ; head and mandibles as broad and long as in Jat- pennis ; prothorax of the usual shape; elytra short, very cordiform (16-17™-™ across the shoulders, 22-24 in the middle, and 19-20 at the top of the declivity), the anterior part of the disk depressed, the posterior part raised, very convex, and abruptly retuse behind ; the whole of the upper part covered with a closely set prominent granu- lation, less dense, however, close to the suture. The brevity of the elytra, which are also much ampliated in the middle, and above all the convexity of the posterior part of the disk impart to this species a distinct facies. Length, 48-47 ; width 22-24™™- The female is exactly like that of /atipennis. Length, 43-46 ; width, 20-21™-™ Delagoa Bay (Rikatla, Antiocha), Mashunaland (Manica, Tuli), Mozambique. Var. PSEUDO-SCABRA. Black, shining; head and mandibles of the type-form ; elytra as cordiform, but with the posterior part of the disk less convex, that is to say, not so much raised, the granulation is smaller, the line on each elytron finer, and the discoidal space between these two lines smooth, and the lateral serration of the anterior part formed of five very distinct spines close to each ‘other, 1892. | of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 17 The granulation of the elytra, and also the lateral serration is that of Livingstoni, but the shortness of the elytra, the ampliation of the sides in the middle, and their abrupt declivity behind approximates this variety to scabra. Length, 42 ; width, 23™™ I have seen one male only, which was captured by Mr. A. w. Hriksson, in Ovampoland (Cunene River). M. FEROX. new species. plate I, fig. I. Brown, very shining ; jaws more slender than in the other species, the two inner teeth of the left mandible far apart, and of equal size, the apical ‘one of the left with one or more minor teeth on each side, somewhat like a shark’s; head and prothorax of the usual shape, but hardly punctulated ; elytra nearly orbicular with the outer margins very acutely serrated, sharply declivous behind, with the posterior part of the disk somewhat convex, the upper part quite smooth, the declivity with very small setigerous granules not closely set. Length, 30-45 ; width, 20-25™™ Female: As shining as the male ; the granulation of the hind part is, however, more pronounced, and there are also a few small tubercles scattered on the lateral sides of the disk. Length, 39-44 ; width, 20-23" This species is very distinct from the others ; not only are the elytra more rotund than in any other, but the inner teeth of the mandibles are also differently shaped. Great Namaqualand (Goagas), South-Damaraland. Gen. PLATYCHILE. McLEAY, Annul. Jav. 1825, p. 9. Mentum with a long, acute tooth, the last joint of the palpi securi- 18 M. L. Peéringueys Descriptive Catalogue [Nov. 80, form, the basal one of the labial palpi a little longer than the tooth in the mentum; mandibles with two inner falciform teeth and a bifid one at the base; head broad ; labrum nearly straight with four teeth in the centre, the two mediin ones acute; eyes not large ; antenne filiform ; prothorax transversal, plane, the posterior angles producei in a very long, triangular spine fitting against the shoulders; elytra ovate, not much convex; no wings; legs moderately long, tarsi very bristly ; male with the three basal, anterior tarsi dilated, and with seven abdominal segments, the penultimate one deeply incised, female with six segments only. Although the shape of the mentum and of the palpi are those of Mantichora, I believe that the proper place of this genus is in the vicinity of Zetracha and Megacephala, in spite of its very distinct facies, for they have in common a seven-jointed abdomen in the male, with dilated tarsi, and mandibles nearly analogous ; the apical joints of the palpi are also in proportion more thickened than those of Mantichora, and like Tetracha they are nocturnal. The genus seems to be re- stricte| to South-Africa, and has only as yet been met with on the Western part, from Houts Bay to Walfish Bay, and probably Benguela. P. PALLIDA. Fabric. Syst. Hleuth, 1, 1801, p. 167. THoms. Monog. des Cicind., p. 13, pl. 3, fig. 2. Very pale-yellow, nearly transparent, smooth, shining ; apical part of the mandibles and inner teeth infuscated ; labrum with six rigid bristles in front ; head with two round median impressions ; prothorax trapeziform ; very little convex, very slightly narrowed at the apex and at the base, with a narrow, median groove, acutely marginated laterally with the basal angles produced in a long conical spine ; elytra elongato-ovate, very little convex, and ampliated in the middle, faintly punctured in the anterior part, and very briefly granulose in the posterior part, with the suture marginated and raised ; legs very pale- yellow bristly. Length, 2s USis lat. 5-6™™ 1892.] of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 19 This species was up to lately one of the rarest beetles in collections. I came across it quite by accident. Itis found on the sea-side, lying in the day time in burrows in the sand-dunes from which it emerges at night or dusk. I have found several together in a single burrow. Mr. R. Lightfoot has kept some for a long time in captivity. They would bury themselves in the sand with very great rapidity, and come out at night to devour the flies given them during the day. They are very pugnacious and courageous, using their mandibles freely when captured ; their colouring, which harmonises wonderfully well with that of their surroundings, is transparent white, turning to pale-yellow after death. Cape Colony (Table Bay, Houts Bay, Berg River, Port Nolloth). Var. SUTURALIS. Péring. OMe JUN, ales aL, P. SUTURATA. Péring. Trans. Phil. Soc., 1888, p. 67. Very similar to the type-form, from which it differs merely by having two fuscous spots on the prothorax; the suture from the base toa little short of the apex is deeply infuscated ; the punctures on the anterior part are deeper, and the granulation in the posterior part a little more defined. Damaraland (Walfish Bay, Sandwich Harbour). Length, 12-13; width, 5-6" Var. PLAGIATA. ple iyrtie 2: Differs from the var. suturalis by having besides the black sutural band an ovate fuscous plaga extending on each side of the suture. Length, 11-18 ; width, 5-6"™ Damaraland (Walfish Bay). 26 M. L. Peringuey’s Descriptive Catalogue |Nov. 30, In his Encyclopédie d’ Histoire Naturelle Coleopt. 1877, vol. 1, p 18, Dr. Chenu gives a wood-cut of Platychile pallida with that same dorsal fuseous patch. It is not unlikely that the insect from which the draw- ing was made had been captured in Benguela by Moufilet. Port Nolloth is the most northerly habitat of P. pallida, but the insects from that locality are exactly like those found near Cape Town, while in Sandwich Harbour, about 200 miles from Port-Nolloth, the varieties suturalis and plagiata only seem to occur. Tribe : MEGACEPHALIDA. Palpi elongated, the labial longer than the maxillary, and with the basal joint much longer than the depth of the notch in the mentum, the notch with a very small tooth in the middle. Gen. MEGACEPHALA. Latr. Gener, Crust. et Ins, 1, 1806, p. 175. Mentum with a short tooth, anterior part of the labium triangular, last joint of the palpi very securiform and hollowed at the tip, the basal labial joint longer than the notch in the mentum, the penultimate | one twice as long as the last one, and a little curved ; labrum narrow, denticulated at the apex, head broad ; eyes large; antenne long, fili- form ; prothorax carinated laterally, narrowed at apex and base ; elytra oblong, convex, no wings, legs moderately long, sub-quadrangular, with a median groove on each face, the male with the three joints of the anterior tarsi dilated mwardly, and seven abdominal segments,! the penultimate one not incised, the female with six segments only. This genus has only one representative in South-Africa, but is repre- sented in Africa by six other species, all closely allied, and differing mostly in the size of the granulation on the elytra, and also in the shape of the postical angles of the prothorax ; two species are found 1L,acordaire (Génér. d. Coleopt. 1854, p. 12) mentions six abdominal segments in each sex ; I have before me the males of JV. regalis, the abdomen of which is really seven-segmented. 1892. | of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 21 on the Western side (Senegal and Guinea), one in Kordofan, and three on the Hastern side (Massai, Somaliland, and Mombassa). M. REGALIS. Bohem. Insect. Caffr. 1, 1848, p. 2. Thomson’s Monogr. d. Cicind., p, 21, pl. 4, fig. 3, je ME vaca, 4, Brassy-green, palpi and mandibles at the base, antenna, legs, with the exception of the knees of the intermediate and posterior pairs, and the last three abdominal segments yellowish ; elytra dark-blue on the dorsal part, violaceous on the sides, and with the outer margin yel- lowish-red ; labrum six-dented, with six rigid bristles; head broad, smooth, with a few lateral bristles and a semi-arcuated impression on each side above the labrum ; prothorax not broader than the head , narrowed in front and behind, the central part rotund, with a deep, narrow groove in the centre, the outer sides with a double diverging, acute margin not produced in a spine at the basal angles! ; elytra obiong, a little broader in the posterior part than at the base, very convex, with the suture depressed, and covered with very conspicuous? closely set granules, oblong on the back, round on the sides and apical part, and from the interstices of which spring light brown bristles ; the anterior part of the disk haga nearly smooth line reaching from a little below the base to about the centre, and better defined in the male than in the female. Length, 26-27 ; width, 10-11™™ Mr. E. G. Alston has captured some examples, running in the day- time in a trench, or water-furrow, after a shower of rain. Transvaal (Klerksderp), Bechuanaland (Kuruman), Maghaliesberg and Lake N’Gami, teste Boheman. 1In the figure of regalis as given by Thomson in his Monograph, the lateral _margins of the prothorax form two projecting teeth ; while this angle is noticeable on one male example from Shoshong, although not so much developed as in Thomson’s figure, it is entirely absent in two other male specimens from Klerksdorp. Lo bo M. L. Péringuey’s Descriptive Catalogue [Nov. 30, Var. HERERO. Brassy-green, very shining on the head and prothorax, labrum, man- dibles, with the exception of the apical part, antenne and palpi pale- yellow, intermediate and posterior tibize sometimes infuscated ; elytra elongated with the sides nearly straight in the male ; bright metallic- green on the back, dark-blue on the sides and apex, very convex, covered with closely set granules, elongated on the back, round on the sides and behind, the suture slightly depressed, interstices with moderately long, rigid bristles. Length, 22; width, 73™-™ Differs from the type in the shape of the elytra much more par- allel than in regalis, the colouring is different, the suture is less depressed owing to the dorsal tubercles being much less developed, which makes also the smooth discoidal space edging the three dorsal row of oblong tubercles less discernible. Communicated by Professor ©. Aurivilius, of the Stockholm Museum. Damaraland. Tribe : CICINDELIDA. Palpi short, labial shorter than the maxillary; their busal joint hardly as long as the depth of the notch in the mentum, the notch with a sharp tooth in the centre, eyes with an orbital ridge; the tarsi dilated in the male, abdomen of the male with seven segments, the penultimate one notched ; the female with six segments only. A. Third joint of the labial palpi slender. BostRicHoPHORUS, OPHRYODERA, CICINDELA. “B. Third joint of the labial palpi thickened. MneGaLomma. Very thick, MYRMECOPTERA, DRoMICA COSMEMA, 1892.) of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 23 Gen. BOSTRICOPHORUS. Thoms. Apvnal. Soc, Ent. d, France, 1856, p. 331. Mentum with the median tooth long and acute; palpi slender, mandibles with three strong, inner teeth, labrum very convex, pro- duced in front, and with five teeth at the apex, antenne with the four basal joints filiform, the 5th, 6th, and 7th sub-foliated, the apical four compressed ; male with a little fascicle of hairs under the fourth joint, this fascicle rudimentary in the female ; prothorax with the outer sides perpendicular and acutely carinated ; elytra parallel, the sutural part spinose at the apex, not much convex on the upper part ; legs long, slender. SYNOPSIS OF SPECIES. Antenne with the 5th, 6th, and 7th joint sub-foliated, elytra with three or four yellow spots on each side, Bianconi, Antenne with the 5th, 6th, and 7th joint very much com- pressed ; elytra with six or seven yellow spots on each side, notatus. Antennz with the 5th, 6th, and 7th joint sub-foliated ; elytra with two yellow fasciz and a few lines, compressicornis. B, Brancont. Bertol. Dissert. Ins. Col., 1858, p. 7, pl. 1, fig. 1. Pl. 11, fig. 5. Very dark bronze, the basal joints of the antenne, legs and under- side dark-blue, very shining; palpi pale-yellow, the apical joints dark- blue; labrum yellowish-white, narrowly edged with black, and having four setigerous punctures, one on each side, the other above the second tooth ; head finely strigose ; prothorax cylindrical, slightly impressed in front and behind, and grooved in the centre ; elytra parallel, very little convex, the spines on each side of the suture very conspicuous, black, opaque, with the outer margins violaceous, closely punctured and with three or four yellow spots on each elytron ; two, comma- shaped at the base, close to the suture, one at about the median part of the elytra, with a smaller one alongside of it, which is, however, often “OA M. L. Péringuey’s Descriptive Catalogue [Nov. 30, wanting ; sides of the pectus and prothorax with long whitish hairs; tarsi grooved on the upper part. Length, 15-18; width, 5-5$"™ Delagoa Bay (Rikatla). B. notatus. Bohem. Insect. Caffr. 1, p. 6, Digi al eds psy: Very dark bronze on the upper part, underside and legs bright metallic violaceous blue; palpi pale-yellow, the apical joint dark blue ; basal part of the mandibles yellow; labrum convex, yellowish, slightly infuscated at the base in the female, the apical part five-dented, and with four setigerous punctures, one on each side, the other above the second tooth; head strigose, with a few decumbent hairs, antenne with the four basal joints filiform, the 5th, 6th, and 7th compressed | and slightly sub-foliated, the fascicle of hairs under the 4th joint very small; prothorax shagreened, sub-cylindrical, impressed transversely at base and apex, and slightly grooved longitudinally in the centre, spinose at the apex of the suture, opaque with moderately broad, brassy punctures and with six or seven small yellow spots on each side, arranged as follows :—one, comma shaped, under the scutellum, and another one, very faint, a little lower down, four in a row, the basal one also comma shaped, and another one in the disk outside the others ; sides of thorax and pectus clothed with white hairs ; tarsi not grooved. Length, 13-16 ; width, 5-6™™ Closely allied to B. Bianconi; the 4th, 5th, 6th, and 7th joints of antennee are not so much dilated, and the yellow spots on the elytra are more numerous. Transvaal (Potchefstroom). B. COMPRESSICORNIS. Bohem. ~ Ofvers, Vet. Ac. Forh. 1860, p. 4. Metallic black on the upper part, dark blue with a greenish tinge underneath ; palpi yellowish, the apical joints dark blue; labrum 1892. | of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 25 yellowish marginated with black, with only three teeth in front; head strigose, slightly hairy ; prothorax of the usual shape; elytra hardly punctated, the apical sutural spines very sharp, black with yellow patches spots and lines arranged as follows on each side: a sutural line reaching from the base to about the middle, a diagonal sinuated patch beginning below the shoulder, reaching from the outer margin to about the centre of the dorsal part, and with a round dot between the suture and the apex of the patch, another and broader sub-apical sinuated patch connected with the suture, but not with the outer margin, three small longitudinal lines between the two patches, and three minute dots between the supra apical patch and the apex ; tarsi not grooved. Length, 18; width, 6™™ I have made that description from an example in the British Museum, but I neglected to examine the labrum; Boheman in his description, l.c., says that it is tri-dentate, and his assertion is cor- roborated by Bates. Entomol. Month. Magaz., 1872, p. 287. Vicinity of Lake N’Gami, teste Boheman ; Middle Limpopo, teste. Bates. Gen. OPHRYODERA. Chaud. Bull. Mosc. 1860, IV., p. 314. Mentum with a short, acute median tooth; palpi slender, labrum long, very convex, produced in front, and with five teeth at the apex, antennee with the seven ultimate joints compressed, the 5th, 6th, and 7th dilated ; prothorax with the outer sides perpendicular and carinated ; elytra parallel, moderately convex, narrowed diagonally behind ; median and posterior tarsi grooved on the upper part. O. RUFOMARGINATA. Bohem. Insect. Caffr. 1, 1848, p. 3. Pls 2, figece. Bronze, more or less dark, the four basal points of the antenne, 26 UM. L. Peringuey’s Descriptive Catalogue [Nov. 30, legs, tarsi and underside violaceous-blue, shining, head, prothorax and lateral sides of abdomen very pubescent; head strigose, labrum very long and convex, strongly five-dented at the apex with one setigerous puncture on the outer side, and two above the second teeth, yellow, marginated with brown and with two triangular fuscous macule at the base in both sexes; prothorax deeply impressed at base and apex, grooved in the centre, shagreened; elytra truncated at the base, par- allel, not much convex, narrowed diagonally behind, granulated near the base, and from there broadly, but not deeply, punctured, opaque with the outer margin violaceous, and with yellow markings disposed on each side as follows: suture with a broad line on each side, a small dot at the base, near the scutellum, an oblique fascia very much broadened triangularly at the tip, starting from the humeral angle, in the male, disconnected with it in the female, and reaching the suture, below this fascia a narrow line, thickened at both ends, running diagonally from about the centre of the disc towards the suture, and a broad postical band rounding the apex and ascending a little along the outer margin. In some male examples from Potchefstroom (Transvaal}, the postical band ascends laterally as far as the tip of the diagonal dorsal line and unites with it. Length, 22-23 ; width, 65-7""™ Transvaal (Potchefstroom, Rustenburg.) Var. BRADSHAWI, Péring. Ann, and Magaz, Nat. Hist., 1888, p. 220. Shape and size of the typical form ; the colouring of the elytra chalky-white instead of golden yellow ; the basal dot, on each side of the scutellum, is wanting ; the oblique dorsal fascia is narrow, begins below the shoulder, reaches the median part of the disc, and is not broadened at the end, instead of the narrow line below it there is a round dot, but the postical band remains the same. Length, 20-22 ; width, 7™"™ Manica, Zambeze River, Ovampoland, 1892. | of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 27 Var. OBERTHURI, Péring. Ann, and Magaz. Nat. His., 1888, p. 21. Size and colouring of the preceding variety ; the basal dot on each side of the scutellum is also missing ; the oblique dorsal fascia is longer, less curved, and does not reach the shoulder ; there is no discoidal spot, and the postical band, not much broader than the suture, ascends along the outer margin to about half the length of the elytron. Length, 23 ; width, 8™*™ Yambeze River. Var. ERIKSsoNI, Péring, Third Contr. etc., Tr. S. A. Phil. Soc. 1892, p. 4. Colouring of var. Oberthuri; the basal dot on each side of the scutellum is wanting ; the oblique dorsal fascia is narrow, curved, and reaches the humeral angle, and the outer margin from about the medium part has a white band, broadening towards the apex and emitting a short slanting dorsal ramus. Length, 28 ; width, 8™-™": Ovampoland. 0. BoHEMANI, Péring. Ann, and Magaz. Nat. Hist., 1888, p. 220. Head and prothorax of O. rufomarginata, and equally pilose ; each elytron with a very broad, golden-yellow sinuated band, disconnected from the margin and the suture, narrowed in the median part, where it encloses a small rounded spot (background), enlarged from past the middle, narrowed towards the apex, and forming within the subapical sutural part a dent which leaves an irregular triangular patch of the background visible. Legs and underside as in O. rufomarginata. Kenge 205) wither dee: Angola. 28 M. L. Peringuey’s Descriptive Catalogue [Nov. 30, This locality is beyond what I consider to be the limit of the South- African Coleopterous fauna. It is not far, however, and as no exact locality is given, it is possible that this species occurs also in Northern Ovampoland. Gen. CICINDELA. Linn. Syst. Natur. 11, 1735, p. 657. Mentum with the median tooth strong and sharp, palpi slender, the ultimate ones sub-cylindrical and blunt at the tip ; labrum not covering the mandibles entirely, either sinuated in the anterior part and with three more or less obsolete teeth ; or convex in the centre and with one, three or five very sharp teeth in the centre, having always some setiger punctures in the anterior margin ; head strigose ; eyes very prominent ; antennee filiform ; the four basal’ joints shining, the others opaque and briefly pubescent ; prothorax short, deeply impressed transversely in front and behind, and longitudinally in the centre; elytra broader at the base than the prothorax ; seldom deeply pitted ; generally brassy or dark bronze with a glowing-red tinge, and dark or greenish-blue on the underside and legs ; they are winged, and the legs are jong and slender. Species of a genus distributed all over the globe must perforce have undergone some modifications which have led to to the creation of several genera, the characters of which are not very satisfactory ; owing, however, to differences in the general facies, I propose to divide the South African species in four sub-genera :— 1. Labrum transverse, arched in the centre, strongly tri-dented at the apex, mandibles very long; elytra short, much ampliated, very flat on the upper part ; legs short. EURYMORPHA. Hope. 2. Labrum narrow or sub-triangular ; uni or tri-dented at the tip ; elytra very little convex, serrated behind and the suture ending in a short spine. CICINDELA. Linn. 3. Labrum narrow, convex, five-dented at the tip ; prothorax narrow, elongated ; elytra sub-cylindrical, not serrated behind. Euryopa. Lacord. 1892. | of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 29 4, Labrum convex, tri-dented at the tip; elytra narrow with the shoulders rounded, very convex, each wing-cover singly rounded behind, serrated and ending in ashort spine. PrRoporxes. Thoms. Sub-genus HURYMORPHA, Hope. The Coleopter. Manual, 11, 1838, p. 160. C. (E.) CYANIPES. Hope. Coleopt. Manual 11, 1838, p. 160, pl. 1, fig. 4. HH. MOUFFLETI. Fairm. Ann. Franc. 1856, p. 95, HE. BOHEMANI. Bohem. Ofv. Vet. Ac. Forh., 1860, p. 4. pie ne 4: Metallic green, or brassy, shining on the upper part; very dark blue, almost black on the underside;. basal articulations of the antenne, head, prothorax, sides of pectus, (even transverse folds of the abdomen) and legs covered with dense, white, decumbent hairs ; labrum green, or brassy, bi-impressed at the base, tri-dented in the centre; the central tooth long, the anterior margin with four setigerous punctures on each side of the median tooth ; antenne with the basal joints very hairy, the seven apical ones short, slightly compressed ; head punctulated, strigose between the eyes; prothorax broader than long, impressed longitudinally in the centre and transversely at base and apex, with the apical and basal angles very acute, almost spinose ; elytra broader than the prothorax, bi-sinuated at the base for the reception of the sharp angles of the prothorax, gradually ampliated from the shoulders to the middle and very little attenuated behind ; very slightly convex, with a depression behind on each side of the suture; closely but faintly punctured and with a series of four or five larger punctures, often ill-defined, on each side ; posterior margin very finely serrated ; sides of the pectus and femora — thickiy covered with white hair; abdominal segments with a transverse fringe of white hairs. Length, 11-153 width, 6-7" Walfish Bay. Sandwich Harbour. 30 M. L. Peringuey’s Descriptive Catalogue (Nov. 30, Hope was the first to describe and figure this species, but did not know whence it came. The colour of the typical insect was metallic green, and he thought it to be a native of Madagascar. The same species, but bronze, instead of metallic green, was described anew by Fairmaire and Boheman, by the former from examples from Cape Negro (Mossamedes), by the latter from specimens collected on the banks of the Kuisip River by Wahlberg. Owing to the liberality and kindness of J. J. Cleverly, Esq., Resident Magistrate of Walfish Bay, I have been able to examine several hundred examples of Hurymorpha collected in that vicinity, and have found among them two green ones only, and I have also received one green example from Sandwich Harbour. Very dark specimens are also occasionally met with. The habitat of this insect will probably be found to extend from Angola down to the Orange River mouth. Mr. Cleverly writes that the green variety is very scarce. I have seen a green example in the British Museum, which, I believe, although I am not certain, comes from Angola; and it has not been captured so far south as Port Nolloth, although eagerly looked for. E. cyanipes has two features not met with among the South-African Cicindelidee : the labrum and the mandibles of the colour of the body are without any trace of yellow patch or spot, and the abdominal segments have a transverse fringe of hairs. It is met with on the sea-shore mostly, but also on the sand-dunes at no great distance from the sea, running with great rapidity, and taking readily to flight. Sub-Gen. CICINDELA. The South African species comprising this sub-genus may be divided in nine groups according to the pattern and colouring of the bands or spots on the wing-covers. A. Elytra white or yellowish white with bronze or golden bands dis- connected with the suture: Capensis, chrysographa, Elizabethe, candida, Herero, Damara, Natalensis, Nilotica, nitidula. 1892.] of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 31 Spots or bands yellow or pale-yellow. B. Elytra broad, short, two small dots on each elytron : quadriguttata. C. Elytra broad with one basal, comma shaped spot, one in the centre alongside the suture, two lateral rami, one postical round spot, and an apical triangular patch on each elytron : lurida, vidua, tenui- puta. D. Elytra elongated, with one basal, comma shaped spot, two alongside the suture, often connected, two lateral rami and an arcuated apical patch on each elytron: brevicollis, vivida, clathrata, pudica. E. Base of elytra with a margin emitting a short narrow line on each side of the scutellum, outer margin broad, rami short : Monteiro, Bertolonw. F. Base of clytra with two small triangular patches on each side of the scutellum, and four very broad nearly parallel patches on each side : regalis. G. Hlytra with four broad, short fascize on each side, the postical one bisinuated, and a large post-median patch : Dongolensis. H, Klytra elongated, narrow, each elytron with narrow rami, more or less disconnected, the white outer margin seldom entire: melan- cholica, dissunilis. D, Hilytra elongated, each elytron with a broad margin sending three more or less blunt dorsal rami: pudibunda, marginella, intersita, mlempestiva, inanis, longula, Bocaget, limbigera. SYNOPSIS. SECTION A. Mandibles very long, elytra broad, each with a longitudinal dorsal band, three rami and a postical round spot ; the dorsal bands broad, very well defined : | Capensis. Dorsal bands narrow, median oblique patch often missing : chrysographa. Two basal, short bands only on each side: EHlizabethe. B. Mandibles moderately long ; elytra with three dorsal rami, but no postical spot on each side : candida. Same, but the rami broader and uninterrupted : Herera. Hlytra with a supra humeral arcuated band, and a postical ramus on each side : Elytra with a very broad sutural patch, and three dorsal rami on each side : Damara, Natalensiz, 34 M, L. Peringuey’s Descriptwe Catalogue (Nov. 30, Elytra with a narrow dorsal line on each side, three rami and an elongated sub-postical patch : nilotica. Elytra with the same markings as nilotica, but more elon- gated, and the dorsal bands narrower : nitidula. C. Capensis, Linn. Syst. Natur. 17, 1735, 11, p. 657. Oliv. Hnt. Ul33,sp.do, t. i: fos 11, Labrum wide, slightly sinuated on the anterior part with a small median tooth, three small setigerous punctures on each side of the tooth, and alarger one in the anterior angle, palpi with the exception of the ultimate joints and outer part of mandibles at the base, white ; head and prothorax brassy, glowing-red underneath, covered with thick decumbent hairs; elytra broad, much ampliated past the middle in the female, moderately convex, rugose, white with a narrow sutural bronze line, a longitudinal band reaching from the base to two-thirds of the length, and three short oblique rami disconnected with the outer margin and around postical spot of the same colour on each side; the first ramus, a humeral one, and the second, a median one, coalesce with the longitudinal band, the third one is thickened at both ends, the hind one ending under the longitudinal band, but very seldom connected with it, and the round spot is above the outer margin, where the postical rounding begins; underside dark-blue, sides of abdomen thickly set with white hairs. Length, 12-14; width, 5-7": Capensis is very common from October to April on the sandy sea- shore, but is seldom met with even one mile inland. Cape Colony (neighbourhood of Cape Town, False Bay, Berg River). Var. CHRYSOGRAPHA, Dej. C. chrysographa, Dej. Spec. 1831, V. p. 254. C. barbifrons. Bohem, Ins. Caffr. I, 1848, p. 12. Shape and colouring of the type-form, but a little smaller, setigerous 33 1892. ] of the Coleoptera of South Africa. punctures of the labrum, hairiness of the head, prothorax and under part identical, but the bronze bands of the elytra are narrower, the median oblique ramus is generally wanting in the male, and often reduced to a mere dot in the female; the bronze bands often turn to metallic black. Length, 11-13; width, 5-6™™ Common on the sea-beach near Port Elizabeth. Boheman gives the interior of Caffraria as the habitat of his (. barbifrons, It was very likely captured by Wahlberg at Port-Elizabeth, at the same time as Mantichora tibialis and Microlestia rugosopunctata. The types of Dejean are two males in which the longitudinal band and the supra-humeral one are left, and are thus shaped like a Y, and with a small dot underneath, evidently the apical end of the postical ramus. Var. ELIZABETH. Shape, size and colouring of chrysographa, but a little smaller; the elytra are white with a narrow golden suture, two narrow, short bronze bands at the base, and sometimes a very faint trace of a postical ramus on the female. Length, 104-11; width, 4-5™™ Cape Colony (Port Elizabeth). C. CANDIDA. Dej. Spec. 1, 1825, p, 123. C. MIXTA. Chaud. Ann. d. Franc. 1835, p, 436. Labrum yellowish-white, wide in length, narrow in width, slightly ‘tri-dentate in the male, the median tooth strongly developed in the female, two small setigerous punctures on each side of the median tooth and one in the anterior angle, palpi with the exception of the ultimate joints, and outer part of mandibles, yellowish-white ; pro- 34 M. L. Péringuey’s Descriptive Catalogue [Nov. 30, thorax brassy or very dark bronze, covered with white decumbent hairs ; elytra slightly ampliated in the middle in the female, hardly convex, very slightly punctured, pale yellow with a narrow sutural bronze line, and three dorsal ones on each side: the humeral one is arcuated and produced backwards along the suture in a narrow line coalescing with the median one, which is also arcuated and produced behind in a short line reaching te about the second third of the length of the elytron, the third line runs obliquely in the posterior part, and is much thickened at both ends; underside dark-blue, densely pilose laterally. Length, 11-13 ; width, 4.5meme Smaller than C. capensis, with the elytra less convex and also less ampliated in the middle, the oblique rami are shorter and almost crescent snape, the longitudinal line on each elytron is wavy instead of being straight, and there is no postical spot. The narrow lines uniting the thickened ends of the lateral rami disappear often leaving only more or less rounded dots on the elytra ; it is on specimens in which these lines have partly disappeared that De Chaudoir described his C. mixta. | Natal (D’Urban), Cape Colony (Hast London, Port Elizabeth, Albany district) Found on the seashore in company with C. chrysographa, near Port Elizabeth, but unlike the latter it occurs also several miles inland on sandy paths or roads. In the Natal examples the dorsal bands are more regular than in those from the Cape Colony. Var. HERERO. Smaller than the type form, colouring of the head and prothorax more greenish ; elytra with the dorsal rami greenish instead of dark bronze, broader and beginning nearer to the margin than in the true candida. In this variety the dorsal rami have become more developed than in 1892.) of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 35 the type, and the white background is therefore not so conspicuous. Were it not for the peculiar shape of the elytra, which as well as in the type form, are more rotund in the centre and attenuated behind, it would be well nigh impossible to distinguish Herero from clathrata. Length, 10 ; width, 4"°™ Communicated by Professor C. Aurivilius of the Stockholm Museum. Damaraland. ©. DAMARA. new spec. folly J) sey, Bh Labrum convex in the centre, triangular in front, tri-dentate at the apex ; the median tooth long and sharp, two setigerous punctures on each side of the median tooth, and another one in the anterior angle ; head and prothorax pilose; elytra elongated, nearly plane on the upper part, closely but not deeply punctured, pale-yellow ; the suture and the outer margin with a fine narrow dark-blue metallic line, a dark-bronze supra humeral, arcuated band, four or five punctures near the suture and a sinuated postical ramus, the apical end of which is often only left, on each side; underside greenish-blue, thickly tomentose laterally. Length, 11-12; width, ek © Sandwich Harbour. U. Ninorica, De}. Spec, 1, 1825, p. 119. | Klug. Symb. phys. 111, 1832, t. 21. fig. 4. Labrum transverse, narrow, hardly sinuated in front, yellowish- white with five setigerous punctures on each side of the median tooth, which is hardly defined; head and prothorax pilose ; elytra sub- quadrate, hardly convex, each one with a longitudinal dorsal line near 36 M. L. Péringueys Descriptive Catalogue [Nov. 30, the suture reaching from the base to about two-thirds of the length ; three oblique rami and a supra marginal patch, bronze or brassy : the humeral ramus is a little arcuated, and coalesces with the longitudinal band in the same way as the median one, which is broadly triangular at the top; the third one, longer than the others, is very much thickened at both ends, and the postical patch is situated between the puter margin and the apical thickened part of the postical ramus ; underside bright metallic green. | Length, 9-93 ; width, 4-5"™ A species with a wide distribution in Africa. Recorded in South-Africa from Delagoa Bay (Rikatla) on the eastern side, and Sandwich Harbour, a little north of Namaqualand on the west, but so far from no intermediate inland place. C. niTmDULA, De}. Spec. I., p. 120. Lucas. Expl. Alger., p. 7, t. 1, fig. 5 a. C, CAPENSIS, var. Oliv. Entom. IL, 33, p. 19, pl. 2, fig. 19, a.c. Labrum transverse, very slightly sinuated in front, without any median tooth, but with five setigerous punctures on each side: head and prothorax pilose ; elytra elongated, with the shoulders rounded, not much broader than the prothorax at the base, and very slightly ampliated behind, white, the sutare with a fine brassy line, and a longitudinal dorsal band near the suture ; three diagonal rami and a supra marginal, postical patch on each elytron, golden or reddish- bronze ; the bands and spots are arranged like those of Vilotica. Length 12-13 ; width, 4-43™™ The shape of the elytra differentiates this species from the preceding one ; they are narrower with the shoulders rounded, while in ndlotica the humeral angles are sharp, and the elytra sub-quadrate; the dorsal rami are also more perpendicular in nitidwla, owing to the narrowness of the elytra. It is not without some hesitation that I include this species amon $ 1892. ] of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 37 the South African ones. J saw, however, in De Chaudoir’s collection two examples under the catalogue name natalensis which I could not differentiate from nitidula, and one of them labelled “Natal, don. Hope,’ and also “ Natala. Reich.” C’. Nitidula is common in Senegal, and occurs also on the Guinea coast. C. NATALENSIS, Péring. Transact, 8. Afric. Philos. Soc., 1888, p. 69. Labrum short, transverse, slightly tri-dentate in the anterior part, yellowish-white ; two small setigerous punctures on each side of the median tooth, and one in the outer angle ; head and _ prothorax bronzy- green, very shining, the latter short, with the dorsal lobes very convex ; elytra parallel, slightly convex, closely but not deeply punctured, yellowish-white with a broad, sinuated bronze patch extending on the suture from the base to two-thirds of the length, and on each elytron a humeral arcuated ramus uniting with this sutural band, a median, oblique one with the upper part very thickened uniting also with the sutural band, and a diagonal ramus thickened at both ends; underside bright metallic green with the apical abdominal segments yellowish-red ; tibize pale yellow. Length, 12 ; width, 44" | Very distinct from any other South African species, Transvaal (Boksburg). SECTION B. C. QUADRIGUTTATA, Wiedem. Germ, Mag, Entom. IV., p. 116. C. CG@RULESCENS. Klug. Jahrb. 1, p. 29. C, ROTUNDICOLLIS. Dej. Spec. 1, p 56. Green or reddish-bronze, sub-opaque on the upper part, under- side of thorax aud pectus golden green; abdomen dark-blue ; 38 M, L. Peéringuey’s Descriptive Catalogue [Nov. 30, labrum long, semi-circular with a moderately long median tooth, yellowish-white, with two setigerous punctures on each side of the median tooth, and one in the anterior angle; head and prothorax with a few erect setze, the latter rounded, short, very slightly - pilose on the outer margin and underneath, the hair greyish but not de- cumbent ; elytra quadrate at the base, a little ampliated in the female, closely punctured with the punctures moderately deep, each elytron with a broad yellowish spot at the base on the humeral angle, a smaller one past the median part of the disk and a little nearer to the outer margin than to the suture, and a smaller one below it, nearer to the suture than to the outer margin. Length, 10-14; width, 5-6™™:_ The reddish-bronze variety is nearly as common as the green. Neighbourhood of Cape Town. Has not been recorded, to my knowledge, from any other locality. Mountain slopes and grassy plains. Occurs from August to November. SECTION C., Hlytra with the bands and spots well defined and moderately broad lurida. Elytra with the bands and spots very broad Namaqua, Elytra with the bands very narrow, the humeral band interrupted, and no immediate spot on suture tenuipicta. C. LURIDA, Fabric. Spec. Insect, 1, p. 284. Oliv. Entom. 11, 33, p. 18, pl. 3, fig. 35, C. VIDUA. Gory. Ann, Franc., 1833, p. 174. Dark-bronze, sometimes bronzy-green on the upper part; labrum elongated, strongly tri-dentate at the apex, with two setigerous punctures on each side of the median tooth, and one in the anterior angle ; head and prothorax hardly pilose except on the sides of the latter ; elytra much broader than the prothorax with the base square, 1892.) of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 39 very slightly convex, hardly ampliated past the middle in the female, rugose near the base, punctulated behind, each elytron with a small, round, yellow patch in the centre of the base, another one close to the suture at about the middle, a humeral diagonal ramus, one short, median ramus produced behind ina broad curved line the point of which, slightly inflated, reaches nearly the suture, a small round dot near the outer margin, often connected with the thickened apical end of the median ramus, and a narrow triangular patch in the apical margin ; underside glowing-red ; the abdomen dark-blue. Length, 12-13 ; width, 5-53" Banks of ponds or ditches, sandy paths. Found throughout the year, but scarce in May and June. Cape Colony (neighbourhood of Cape Town, Worcester), Var. NAMAQUA. Shape of type-form, although more robust, and marked alike, but the elytra are brassy, and the dorsal bands and spots nearly twice as broad. Length, 12-14; width, 43-6"™ Cape Colony (apparently restricted to Little Namaqualand (O’okiep. Sept). Var. TENUIPICTA, Chaud. C. TENUIPICTA. Chaud. Bull. Mosc., 1837, VII., p. 6. Shape, size and colouring of lwrida, but the dorsal bands are very narrow, and the spots very small; the humeral ramus is interrupted in the middle, and the median round spot close to the suture is wanting. Length, 12; width, 44™™ Cape Colony (Riversdale, Knysna). 40 M. L. Péringuey’s Descriptive Catalogue [Nov. 30, SECTION D., The two spots along the suture, on each side, quite discon- nected, no marginal band : vivida, The two spots very elongated and coalescing, the humeral and median ramus connected by a narrow marginal line: brevicollis. The two spots are very much elongated and coalesce, forming a band near the suture, the dorsal rami are connected by a broad marginal band: clathrata. The two spots along the suture, round, small, far from one another, the dorsal rami blunt, and rich golden yellow: pudica. Same, but with a marginal band connecting the dorsal rami : hypocrita. A triangular patch past the median part of each elytron and an apical one, no marginal band : ; rusticanda. C. vivipA. Bohem. Insect. Caffr. 1, 1848, p. 9. Elongated ; head and prothorax bronzy, moderately shining, elytra very dark, opaque ; labrum elongated, convex, strongly tri-dentate at the apex, yellowish, and with two setigerous punctures on each side of the median tooth, and one in the anterior angle, head and prothorax with short, decumbent white hairs ; elytra elongated with the shoulders slightly rounded, not ampliated in the middle in the female, somewhat, although slightly convex, faintly punctured, each elytron with a comma shaped yellowish patch in the centre of the base, two more, one below the other, along the suture, a humeral curved ramus, a median one also curved and produced backwards in an arcuated band, the tip of which is much thickened and reaches the suture, and an apical much curved marginal band with both ends thickened; underside greenish-blue, thickly clothed with light hairs laterally. Length, 12 ; width, 43™™ . This species is so closely allied to G. catena Fabric. from India, and C. abbreviata, Klug, from Madagascar, that I hesitate in considering it as distinct from the former and older species. Delagoa Bay (Rikatla). 1892. | of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 41 C. BREVICOLLIS. Wiedem. Zool. Magaz. 1, 1823, p. 67. Elongated, labrum white with two very fine setigerous punctures on each side of the median tooth, and another in the anterior angle ; head and prothorax brassy, moderately shining, with some decumbent white hairs ; elytra finely punctulated, bronze with often a blue line round the dorsal markings, slightly convex, the female’s not ampliated in the middle, and each elytron with a small comma shaped yellowish patch in the centre of the base, two elongated ones along the suture, as often coalescing as not, and then forming along the suture a narrow band strangulated in the middle, a humeral curved ramus, a median one also curved and produced behind in a curved band, the tip of which, much thickened, reaches the suture, and an apical, much curved marginal band, with both ends thickened ; the median ramus is often connected along the margin by a narrow yellowish streak with the humeral one, and sometimes also with the postical band, in which case the disposition of the dorsal bands and spots approximates to that of clathrata ; when this marginal streak is wanting, the dorsal design is that of vwida, the only difference being in the shape of the two spots along the suture which are always more or less elongated in brevicollis, instead of being round ; underside dark-blue or greenish-blue, sides covered with dense white hairs. Length, 9-11 ; width, 4-5"-™ I cannot differentiate brevicoll’s from neglecta. Dej., although the latter has a very narrow outer margin on the elytra uniting all the dorsal rami, this margin is also often met with in brevicollis, and I have often caught i copulad examples with and without outer yellow margin. | Cape Colony (neighbourhood of Cape Town, Worcester) ; Senegal, Zanzibar (teste Gerst.). | On sandy spots near margins of ponds, sandy paths, sea-beach, 42. M. L. Peringuey’s Descriptive Catalogue [Nov. 30, C. CLATHRATA. Dejean. Speen wpe ls: C, INTERMEDIA. Klug, Monatsb. Berl. Ac. 1853, p. 245; Peter’s Reis. nach. Mozamb., 1862, p. 146, pl. 9, fig. 1. Labrum elongated, convex, tri-dentate at the apex, white with two setigerous punctures on each side of the median tooth and one in the anterior angle ; head and prothorax brassy, covered with white decum- bent hairs; elytra slightly convex, not ampliated past the middle in the female, finely punctulated, dark-bronze, sometimes bronze with a greenish tinge, each elytron with an inverted comma-like yellow patch coalescing with a band running along the suture (the said band formed by two very much elongated spots) as far as half the length, a humeral curved ramus, a median one also curved and produced behind in a curved band, the thickened end of which reaches the suture, and an apical, much curved marginal band with both ends thickened, and both humeral and median rami as well as postical band connected along the margin by a broad band of the same colour, underside dark-blue, sides covered with dense white hairs. Length, 10-13 ; width, 4-5™™ The width of the dorsal markings is apt to vary ; it is largest in some examples from Bushmanland, end narrowest in some examples from Delagoa Bay. I cannot consider this species otherwise than identical with C7. neglecta, Dej., and senegalensis, De}. Cape Colony (Rondebosch, Cape Town, Hex River, Worcester, Bnon, Bathurst, Graham’s Town, Hast London, and Bushmanland) ; Natal (D’Urban, Maritzburg); Zululand (Eshowe) ; Orange Free State (Parys); Transvaal (Boksburg, Potchefstroom, Marico) ; Delagoa Bay (Rikatla) : Gazaland, Mozambique (teste Klug). IThe number of setigerous punctures varies much in that species; there are sometimes three on each side of the median tooth, sometimes one only. 1892. | of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 43 C. PuDICA. Bohem. Insect. Caffr. 1, 1848, p. 8. Labrum elongated, convex in the centre, strongly tri-dentate, pale yellow, with one deep setigerous puncture on each side of the median teeth and another in the anterior angle; prothorax slightly pilose on the outer margins ; elytra elongated, dark bronze, with golden yellow markings, broadly but not deeply punctured, each elytron with a small, round spot in the base, two alongside the suture, a blunt humeral ramus, a median one produced behind in a broad diagonal band, and an arcuated, apical marginal band, underside glowing red, with the abdomen dark-blue, the sides slightly pilose. Length, 12-14 ; width, 4-5}™™ More robust than claihrata, and although the markings of the elytra are of the same pattern, the rami are broader and more blunt, the spots are much smaller and far from one another, and the colouring of the marking is of a rich yellow. Natal (Frere). Var. HYPOCRITA. Shape and colouring of the type, the body is longer, the markings of the elytra are similar, but the dorsal rami are connected along the outer margin by a broad, seldom narrow, yellow band. Length, 15-16 ; width, 5-54™-™ Orange Free State (Parys) ; Transvaal (Klerksdorp, Potchefstroom). Var. RUSTICANA. Size, shape and colouring of the type ; the regularly disposed bands on the elytra have disappeared, leaving only two minute yellow spots on each side along the suture, three very indistinct ones in the median 44 WM. L. Peringuey’s Descriptive Catalogue [Nov. 30, part of the disk, a triangular patch past the middle, and a postical one on the apical margin. Length, 15; lat. 55™™ Transvaal (Barberton). SECTION E. Marginal band of elytra broad, median ramus well defined Monteiro. Marginal band of elytra very narrow, median ramus hardly defined Bertolonii, C. Monterroi, Bates. Cist. Entom., vol. II., p. 331, Labrum yellow, very much elongated, acutely five-dentate with one deep setigerous puncture on each side of the median tooth and one in the anterior angle ; head and prothorax very pilose ; elytra elongated, very dark bronze, marginated with pale-yellow all round, base included, each one with a short line below the scutellum, connected with the basal margin, the lateral margin emits a short acute tooth, a median ramus directed towards the suture and a blunt inflation above the apical part ; underside and sides of abdomen thickly covered with white hairs. Length, 11-11} ; width, 4-44" Bate’s description was evidently from an example in which the median lateral ramus was not produced obliquely behind towards the suture. I have seen examples from Lourenco Marques in which the median ramus is well-defined but the diagonal line it emits is very narrow. Delagoa Bay (Lourengo Marques, Rikatla.) Var. BERTOLONII. Chaud. in litt. ~ ‘The undescribed species under that name which I saw in Chaudoir’s collection, labelled Mozambique, is similar in shape, size and colouring to Monteiror, but the marginal band is very much narrower, and the central ramus is hardly defined. 1892. ] of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 45 Length, 11; width 4"™ Mozambique (teste Chand.) Rikatla. SECTION F. C. REGALIS, Dej. Spec. V., 1831, p. 251. Casteln. Hist. d. Ins. L., p. 15, pl. 1, fig. 6. Labrum yellow, triangular apically, with a long median tooth : three equi-distant setigerous punctures on each side; head and prothorax brassy ; elytra broad, with the outer sides nearly parallel, hardly convex, finely shagreened, very dark-blue or dark-bronze, with two sub-triangular pale-yellow basal patches on each side of the suture and four broad patches on each elyiron: the first comma-shaped basal patch is alongside the scutellum, and its lower part often coalesces with the second one which runs for a short distance along the suture ; the humeral patch is slanting and rounds off the humeral angle, the other three patches, median, post median and apical, are very broad and tranverse ; underside dark-blue, very shining, sides covered with dense white hairs. Length, 17-173 ; width, 7™"- This species, which has no ally, has a very wide range in Africa ; it is recorded from Senegal. My South-African examples have been captured on the Zambeze River at the junction of that river with the Shire (F. C. Selous), Gazaland (Rev. Junod), and Tette (teste Klug). SECTION G. C. DoneoLensis, Klug. Symb. physic. HL C. FIMBRIATA, Dej. Spec. V. p. 241. Brassy on the upper part, underside metallic red with a faint bluish tinge ; labrum very long, triangular, ending in the apex in a very long, 46 M. L. Péringuey’s Descriptive Catalogue (Nov. 30, sharp spine in both sexes, and with a double series along the apical margin of small punctures from which spring long sete ; mandibles very long, all the joints of the palpi reddish-brown ; prothorax short, setulose on the outer sides; elytra broad, a little ampliated behind in the female, finely shagreened, and with four lateral yellow patches and one round postical spot on each side: the humeral patch, rounding the humeral angle is nearly transverse and broader on the disk than on the shoulder, the median one very broad does not reach the suture ; the pest median is very small and connected along the outer margin by a very narrow line with the median one; the marginal apical patch is very much thickened at the tip, and reaches the suture, the round spot is situated on the disk, between the post median lateral patch and the suture ; underside clothed laterally with dense white hairs. Length, 16-17; width, 64-7"™ Like the preceding one this species has a wide range. It is recorded from Nubia and Senegal. My South-African examples have been captured on the Zambeze River, at the junction with the Shiré, and at Delagoa Bay (Rikatla). SECTION 4H. Kach elytron with a humeral slauting line, a marginal band reaching from below the humeral line to the posterior third part and sending a short-dented ramus, an apical marginal band connected at the tip with a small supra postical spot, and two discoidal dots, the anterior one with a transparent space under- neath. melancholica. Hach elytron with a moderately broad humeral slanting line. and a marginal band reaching the apex, and emitting a short median ramus, a round supra postical patch anda short apical line, also two discoidal dots, jucunda. Each elytron with a humeral slanting line, an arcuated “median patch disconnected from the outer margin, an apical marginal band, and three disconnected discoidal dots. Dregei. Hach elytron with a humeral dot, four discoidal ones and a narrow apical marginal band. disjuncta. 1892. ] of the Coleoptera of South Africa. A7 Each elytron with a discoidal ante-median dot, a median crescent shape patch sending a small curved lineja small mar- ginal postical dot, and two apical patches. dissimilis, C. MELANCHOLICA, Fabric. Syst. EHleuth. 1, p. 236. C. MGYPTIACA. Dej. Spec..1., p. 96. Kuga Symbi phys. lle pl 2h atten 7, Guér. Mag. Zool. 1845, p. 12, p. 161, fig. 1, a. C. LUDIA. Dej. Spec. V., p. 244. C. MICROSTICTA. Klug. Peter’s Reis,, 1862, p. 147. C. conaRuA. Kiug. Monatsb. Berl. Ac. 1853, p. 245 ; Peter’s Reis, 1862, p. 148, pl. 9. fig. 2. C. TANTILLA. Bohem. Ofy. Vet. Ac. Forh. 1860, p. 6. Greenish bronze, shining but little on the upper part and bright greenish blue underneath ; labrum short, nearly transverse, slightly tri-dentate at the tip, pale yellow with one setigerous puncture on each side of the median tooth, and one in the outer angle; head aciculated, prothorax short, finely rugose and with a few decumbent white hairs on the outer sides; elytra elongated, slightly ampliated past the middle in the female, closely punctured with the punctures bluish, the female with a smooth, shining, irregular patch on each side of the anterior part of the disk; each elytron has a humeral narrow white band rounding the angle and followed by a small discoidal dot, a median narrow marginal band reaching from below the humeral line to the posterior third part, and emitting at about the middle a short narrow line a little thickened at the tip, and sometimes, although seldom, connected by a still narrower line with a round spot below it, and an apical marginal line the tip of which is connected with a minute dot placed a little below the second dorsal one; underside clothed laterally with white decumbent hairs. Length, 8 to 11; width, 3-43™™- H. congrua and C. microsticta cannot be considered even as varieties, and judging from the description, I take C. tantilla, Bohem, to be only a sinall example of melancholica. 48 M. L. Peringuey’s Descriptive Catalogue [Nov. 30, The range of this species is very great. It is found in Sicily and Northern Africa, Egypt and Senegal, Nubia, Zanzibar, and Angola (microsticta), Madagascar (¢rilunaris) ; in South Africa it is recorded from Tette (congrua), and Lake N’Gami (tantilla), Delagoa Bay (Rikatla), and Gazaland, Transvaal (Potchefstroom), Cape Colony (Van Wyk’s Vley and Carnarvon) ; also from Java, Eastern India, Transcaucasia and Northern Persia, according to De Chaudoir. ©. JucUNDA, Péring. Trans. 8. Afric Phil. Soc. VI., 1892, p. 4. Labrum white, transverse, dented in the middle, and with one setigerous puncture on each side of the median tooth and another on the outer anterior angle ; head, prothorax and elytra bright-green, the prothorax slightly pilose on the outer sides, elytra parallel, nalrow, a little convex, closely punctured, with the punctures slightly blue, and having on each side a humeral, slanting white line rounding the humeral angle and reaching the centre of the disk, but slightly dis- connected at the apical end which is thickened in the shape of a dot, a marginal moderately broad band reaching from below the humeral slanting line and reaching the suture, but sending at about the middle a straight ramus, thickened at the tip, and reaching the centre of the disk, and from there directed backwards to the third postical part of the disk where it is much thickened at the end, also a short lateral patch at the rounding of the wing cover above the apical part, fol- lowed by a short, upright line; underside densely clothed laterally with white hairs. Length, 10; width, 4"™ | Allied to melancholica, still more to vicina, and not to puadsbunda, as I have erroneously stated, (Trans. S. Afric. Philos. Soc. vol. VI., 1892, p. 4), but differs much from the former in the colouring of the upper part, which is bright green instead of bronzy-green ; the dorsal bands and spots are very much broader, pure white instead of 1892.] of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 49 yellowish-white, and there is a continuous, well-defined marginal band from under the humeral diagonal line to the apical suture. Only the male of this species is known to me. Ovampoland. C. Dreger, Mannerh. Bullet. d. Mosc., 1837, II., p. 16. Chaud. loci cit:,, 1837, TM p.y3: Greenish-bronze, not shining on the upper part, bright greenish-blue underneath ; Jabrum pale-yellow, short, sub-triangular, the apex slightly tri-dentate with three setigerous punctures on each side of the median tooth and one in the anterior outer angle ; prothorax slightly pilose on the outer sides ; elytra elongated, finely punctured, the punctures greenish-blue, each elytron with a humeral yellowish-white line rounding the shoulder and reaching the centre of the disk, but disconnected on the disk, a crescent-shaped line disconnected with the outer margin, with the points facing backwards and a round patch below it near the suture, a round discoidal spot above the apex, and a very narrow apical margin of the same colour ; underside densely set laterally with white decumbent hairs. I have not seen the female of that species, which seems to be a form of transition between melancholica and disjuncia. Length, 10 ; width, 4""™ Cape Colony (Burghersdorp), Transvaal (Potchefstroom). C. pissuncTA. Dej. Spec: vol. 1; p. 98: C. AFRITA., Thoms. Archiv. Hntom. vol. 1, 1857, p. 130. C, CENTROPUNCTATA, Dej. Spec. V, p. 245. Dark bronze, very little shining on the upper part, greenish blue and shining underneath; labrum yellowish, short, sub-triangular at the apex and tri-dentate in the middle with the setigerous punctures on 50 M. L. Peéringuey’s Descriptive Catalogue [Nov. 30, each side of the median tooth and another one in the anterior outer angle ; prothorax with the outer sides clothed with a few decumbent white hairs; elytra elongated, a little ampliated behind, the female without any smooth shining discoidal patch, rugose in the anterior part punctulated behind, each elytron with a small yellowish patch on the humeral angle at the base, two on a transverse line in the anterior part of the disk, a sub-triangular patch close to the outer margin with two small round dots underneath, the upper one close to the suture, the lower one near the outer margin, and a very fine marginal band edging the postical part ; underside clothed laterally with white hairs. It sometimes occurs, although very seldom, that the median patch is united with the small dot below by a very fine, narrow, diagonal line, this is the C. centropunctata Dej., apparently described from one example only. Banks of streams or water-furrows. Cape Colony (Graham’s Town, in February, Seymour, in March), Natal (D’Urban, Frere, Pinetown, Maritzkurg), Transvaal (Potchefstroom). C. DISSIMILIS. new spec. Dark bronze on the upper part, bright greenish-blue underneath, labrum white, short, slightly triangular apically and tri-dentate, with two setigerous punctures on each side of the median tooth and. a broader one in the anterior outer angle; prothorax slightly pilose, elytra elongated, a little ampliated behind, convex, closely and finely punctured, and with four or five broader punctures near the base in a supra humeral depression and a moderately well defined series of the same on each side of the suture from base to apex, these punctures are greenish-blue ; each elytron with a discoidal irregular, small, yellowish- white patch in the anterior part, a shagged, broad, median patch, disconnected with the outer margin, and sending backwards a narrow ramus running parallel to the suture and thickened and curved at the tip, a small postical dot on the outer margin, opposite the thickened apical part of the dorsal ramus, and two conspicuous patches of the same colour on the apical part, (the sutural one the largest of the two) 1892. ] of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 51 connected together by a very narrow marginal whitish line ; underside clothed laterally with white hairs. Length, 9; width, 33™°"" A very distinct species without any ally known to me in South- Africa. Delagoa Bay (Rikatla). SECTION I. Hach elytron with a broad marginal band ; band very broad, the median ramus not much directed backwards : pudibund. Band narrower, median ramus very slender, nearly always in- terrupted : marginella. Band broad, median ramus wide, diagonal : intersita. Band narrow, interrupted in the posterior part, median ramus slender : intempestiva. Band moderately broad, no median ramus: inanis. Band broader than in any of the allied species, the median ramus diagonal ; longula, C. PUDIBUNDA. Bohem. Ofvers. Vet. Ac. Forh. 1860, p. 5. Metallic green, moderately shining on the upper part, underside of prothorax and pectus glowing red, abdomen dark-blue, legs golden green, basal joints of palpi, mandibles (apex excepted) and labrum yellowish-white, the latter slightly tri-dentate at the apex, with the median tooth more pronounced than the others, and with three setigerous punctures on each side ; antennee with the four basal joints golden green, the others rufescent ; head strigose ; prothorax short, the sides with decumbent white hairs; elytra elongated, very little ampliated behind, deplanated, closely punctured, the punctures dark- blue, and having each a broad, yellowish marginal band emitting three hook-like fasciz ; the first one in the anterior part is short, reaching about the centre of the disk, the second, a median one, is not longer 52 M. L. Péringueys Descriptive Catalogue [Nov. 30, than the first, but is produced at the tip intoa short, curved, ramus reaching nearly the suture, the third one above the apical part is very short and blunt ; sides of the pectus with a whitish pubescence ; legs bristly. Length, 13-14 ; width, 45mm Transvaal (Potchefstroom.) Damaraland (Svakop River) teste Bohem. C. MARGINELLA. Dej. Spec.’ d. Coleopt. II. p. 417. C, NITIDIPES. Wallengr. Entom. Tidsk. vol. II. p. 9, 1881. C. MIMAX, Wallengr, loc. cit. p. 10. Metallic green on the upper part with the outer sides of prothorax and the pectus glowing red, or bronze with the underside dark-blue, legs green or glowing red; basal joints of the palpi, outer side of mandibles, and the labrum yellowish white, the latter slightly tri- dentate at the apex, aud with two setigerous punctures on each side ; mandibles short, antennee with the four basal joints glowing red, the others rufescent ; prothorax short, with the outer sides setulose ; elytra elongated, nearly parallel, closely punctured with punctures dark-blue or green, and having on each side a moderately broad yellowish marginal band, throwing a very small blunt tooth in the anterior part, another one, a little longer than the first, and as often as not produced at the tip in a short diagonal ramus directed backwards, and a very obtuse one above the apical part, where the rounding of the elytra begins. Length, 10-12; width, 3$-5"™ ~ A very variable species with a wide range. In the type form the median ramus emitted by the margin is often absent or but slightly produced, or again only the apical point of the ramus, looking then as a dorsal dot, is left. | 1892. | of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 58 Cape Colony (Port Elizabeth, Graham’s Town, Bathurst), Trans- vaal (Boksburg). Var. INTERSITA. Bronze on the upper part, shape of the type-form, but lateral margin and teeth and rami broader and better defined. Length, 10-12; width, 4-5™™ Cape Colony (Riversdale, Enon.) Var. INTEMPESTIVA, Bronze on the upper part, shape of the type-form, elytra with the diagonal ramus complete, or incipient, sometimes with the apical spot only left, but the lateral margin narrow and disconnected behind with the postical one. Length, 10-11 ; width, 4-45™-™ Cape Colony (Bathurst, Seymour). Var. INANIS. Wallener. Entom, Tidskr. vol. II., p. 10, 1881. Metallic green or greenish bronze, shape of the type-form, but somewhat longer, elytra with a moderately broad marginal pale-yellow band, emitting three small teeth on each side, these teeth are very often quite rudimentary, although there is often a darker spot where they ought to have been, and there ig no trace of the dorsal ramus. Length, 12-13; width, 4-5}"™ Natal (D’Urban) ; Transvaal (Johannesburg, Potchefstroom, Bar- berton). : ©. LONGULA, Péring. Trans. 8, Afric, Philos. Soc., vol. IV., 1886, p. 68. Died, fens. Head and prothorax brassy, elytra dark-bronze, legs glowing red, 54 M. L. Péringuey’s Descriptive Catalogue [Nov. 30, abdomen violaceous-blue ; basal joints of the palpi, outer sides of man- dibles, and the labrum yellowish-white, this last part slightly tri- dentate at the apex, and with three setigerous punctures on each side, mandibles short, antennee with the basal joints metallic, the others faintly rufescent ; prothorax short with the outer sides setulose ; elytra elongated, very slightly ampliated behind, dark, greenish-bronze, faintly, although closely, punctured, and having on each side a very broad, pale-yellow marginal band emitting a short, although acute, inward tooth in the anterior part, another one in the middle, longer than the first, and produced at the tip ina slanting narrower ramus, directed backwards, and a very obtuse one above the apical part, where the rounding of the elytra begins. Although I considered at one time C. longula to be a variety only of C. marginella, I think it may be considered, provisionally, as a good species ; it differs from the type-forms and varieties, not only in having six setigerous punctures in the labrum, thus causing it to approximate to C. pudibunda, but the elytra are more elongated, and the marginal band is considerably wider, invading nearly the half of the discoidal part. Length, 12; width, 5"™ This species is one of the rarest in Collections; I only know of three examples, two of which were collected in the Western part of the Cape Colony, and another, without record of the locality, in Chaudoir’s collection under the name which, previous to seeing it, I had already selected. Cape Colony (Fraserburg, Clanwilliam). Sub-Gen. EURYODA. — SYNOPSIS OF SPECIES. Elytra with three yellowish-white spots in the disk of each elytron, apical and postical margins narrowly edged with white, guttipennis. Hlytra with two moderately large yellowish spots on each elytron. quadri-pustulata, Elytra with two minute yellowish spots on each elytron, algvensis. 1892. ] of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 55 Elytra with a basal spot, and a broad marginal bi-ramose band of white hairs on each elytron. tereticollis, C. (E.) GUTTIPENNIS, Bohem. Coleopt, Caffr. I, 1848, p. 13. Sub-cylindrical, violaceous-black, but little shining on the upper part, pectus and legs brassy-green, external basal part of mandibles and palpi yellowish, with the ultimate joints of the latter black ; labrum moderately large, bronze-black, tri-dentate at the apex, head strigose lengthways, with six foveee between the eyes ; prothorax sub-cylindrical, irregularly aciculated transversely; elytra elongated, more closely punctured behind than in the anterior part, impressed lengthwise on the disk, very dark-blue, moderately shining and with three small, whitish maculz on each side, the first one immediately behind the central part of the disk, the second one, round like the first, near the apex, the third one oblong, but occasionally absent, is situated in the outer margin at about the middle of the length; the postical and apical margins are also narrowly edged with white, legs moderately long and setulose, brassy-green. This species, which [ have not seen, but a drawing of which was courteously sent me by Professor C. Aurivilius, of the Stockholm Museum, is doubtless very closely allied to, if not identical with, quadripustulata. Length, 13 ; width, 44""™ Caffraria meridionalis (teste Bohem.). C. (E.) QUADRIPUSTULATA, Bohem. Insect. Caffrar. 1, 1848, p. 14. ole te 7, Sub-cylindrical, brassy-green, underside dark-blue, legs green, shining, external basal part of the mandibles, and basal joints of the palpi pale-yellow, labrum acutely five-dentate at the apex, and with two deep setigerous fovese above the three median teeth, pale-yellow, slightly 56 M. L. Peringuey’s Descriptwe Catalogue [Nov. 30, infuscated at the base, head strigose, with four slight impressions between the eyes; prothorax finely shagreened, and but slightly impressed longitudinally in the centre and also transversely at the apex and base ; elytra parallel in the male, a little ampliated behind in the female, convex, narrowed diagonally at the apex, closely punctured, and with one longitudinal discoidal depression on each side, and also two conspicuous, round, yellowish spots, the first one at about the middle of the disk, in the discoidal depression, and the second one, slightly larger than the first, above the apex, but nearer Lo the outer margin than to the suture. Length, 10-11 ; width, 3-34™-" Transvaal (Potchefstroom) ; Zambezia. C. (H.) ALGOENSIS, new spec. Dark bronze with a coerulean tinge, violaceous-blue underneath, external part of the mandibles near the base, the two basal joints of the maxillary palpi, and the three labial ones pale-yellow, the apical ones violaceous, labrum five-dented, with two deep, setigerous fovece above the three median teeth, black with a median yellow line in the male, totally black in the female, head strigose with four impressions between the eyes ; prothorax cylindrical, hardly impressed transversely at. the apex and base, or longitudinally in the centre ; elytra with the outer sides parallel, a little convex, narrowed diagonally at the apex, closely punctured, with two longitudinal depressions on each side, the one near the suture the longest and best defined of the two, and also two yellowish dots, the first one at about the middle of the elytron and in the depression nearest to the outer margin, and the other one, close to the outer margin, where the narrowing of the elytra begins. Length, 13-144; width, 4-5"™. Closely allied to £. quadripustulata : it is, however, larger, the colouring of the labrum differs; the elytra have two depressions on 1892. | of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 57 each side instead of one, and the yellow patches are one-half the size of those of the former. Delagoa Bay (Rikatla). C. (E.) TERETICOLLIS. Bohem. Ofvers. Vet, Ac. Forh., 1860, p. 5. Oblong, moderately convex, unequally covered with white sete ; black, moderately opaque on the upper part, dark-blue underneath ; prothorax and pectus with a brassy tinge; head closely punctured, plane on the upper part and with a few white hairs; labrum large, light-yellow, with a triangular black patch from the base to the centre, and five-dentate at the apex; prothorax twice as long as broad, sub-cylindrical ; roughly and closely granulated, slightly pilose and with a brassy, smooth and very shining areolet on each lateral side; elytra closely and somewhat deeply punctured, with the outer margins brassy and shining, and with one basal median patch of white hairs on each elytron, and a lateral band of the same colour sending two very short blunt, tooth-like rami on the posterior part ; this lateral band which is broader behind than in the anterior part, probably unites with the basal patch, but the white hairs connecting the two are worn off in the type ; underside unequally covered with whitish hairs. Length, 103 ; width, 32™™ Neighbourhood of Lake N’Gami. I am indebted to Professor Cr. Aurivilius, of the Stockholm Museum, for a drawing of this remarkable species. Sub-genus PRODOTES. C. (P.) FATIDICA. Guér. Rev. Zool, 1847, p. 4. p» 1. fig.6. Very dark-bronze with a slightly iridescent tinge on the elytra, 58 M, L. Péringuey’s Descriptive Catalogue (Nov. 30: dark-blue or greenish-black underneath ; labrum short, convex, strongly tri-dentate at the apex, yellowish, broadly marginated with black at the apex and narrowly on the sides, and with two deep setigerous punctures on each side of the median tooth and another one on the anterior outer angle ; third and fourth joints of the antenne very bristly ; head closely plicated ; prothorax short, quadrate, roughly shagreened and with a few, short, decumbent hairs on the outer sides ; elytra slightly broader than the prothorax with sloping humeral angles, very convex, the outer sides nearly straight in the male, slightly ampliated in the female, attenuated behind and singly rounded at the apical suture which is produced in a small sharp spine, broadly but not deeply punctured, and each elytron with two minute round yellowish spots along the suture, one in the anterior part, the other at about the middle, a moderately broad line running diagonally from the humeral angle to a little short of the apex, and a posterior supra-marginal one beginning at the third part of the elytron and reaching the apex; the dorsal diagonal jine emits two very small hooks directed inwards, and also an outer one, the supra-marginal postical line has also a small inner hook near the tip; underside clothed with dense white hairs laterally. Length, 15-164 ; width, 5-6"-™ The general facies is more that of Dromica than of Cicindela. This very distinct species has no ally. Natal (D’Urban), Matabeleland, Delagoa Bay (Rikatla), Transvaal (no exact locality.) Gen. MEGALOMMA. Westw. Annal. & Magaz. Natur, Hist. VIII., p. 203 (8). PHYSODEUTERA. Lacord. JANSENIA. Chaud. . Catal, Collect. Cicindel., 1865, p. 55. Mentum with an acute tooth, nearly as long as the depth of the notch; labrum long, convex, covering entirely the mandibles, three dentate in the middle, labial palpi shorter than the maxillary, the third ~ one much thickened, the last one very short and truncated at the apex; 1892. | of the Coleoptera of South Africa. | 59 eyes very large; prothorax sub-cylindrical; elytra sub-parallel; legs slender, tarsi not grooved. The thickened third maxillary palpi is the only distinct generic character which differentiates Megalomma from Huryoda of which they have, besides, the general facies; and the mentum tooth is not very much shorter. The genus Jansenia has been created by De Chaudoir in order to include Dromica Westermanni, Schaum., an Indian species, and he has added to it Cicindela chlorida, from Malabar, and also, but without sufficient cause I think, Physodeutera angusticollis, which I prefer to retain in the genus Megalomma. M. ANGUSTICOLLIS. Bohem. Insect. Caffrar. vol. I, p. 15. Head, prothorax, scutellum and humeral part of the elytra brassy, shining, elytra very dark bronze with the lateral margins greenish- blue; underside and legs dark-blue, the tibie red, basal joints of palpi pale-yellow ; labrum yellow with six setigerous punctures in the anterior part, head strigose, prothorax cylindrical, slightly narrowed in front and behind, not grooved in the centre, finely shagreened ; elytra a little broader than the prothorax at the base, with the sides nearly straight, but a little ampliated behind in the female, rounded behind ending ina sharp spine on each side of the apical part of the suture, convex, closely punctured with a distinct row of broader green punc- tures on each side of the suture, dark-bronze, and each elytron with three sinuose, irregular, longitudinal black lines, a small yellowish dot at about the median part of the disk and two patches of the same colour behind, one, the largest, a little above the apical part, nearer to the margin than to the suture, and the other, a smaller one, at the very apical part. Length, 10-11; width, 4™™ Natal (D’Urban, Maritzburg, Frere), Transvaal (Potchefstroom, Lydenburg.) — 60 M. L. Peéringuey’s Descriptive Catalogue [Nov. 30, M. LIMBIGERA. new spec. Brassy, shining on the head and prothorax ; labrum yellowish-white, sub-quadrate, very slightly unidentate, even in the female, at the apex, but slightly acute in the anterior angle, with one setigerous puncture on each side of the median tooth, and another on the outer angle ; head and prothorax very metallic, hairless; elytra elongated, a little ampliated behind in the female, dark-bronze, very faintly punctured, but with a row of broad, deep, bluish-green punctures on each side along the suture, and a broad yellowish marginal band sending a small short hook in the anterior part, a longer and blunter one at about the median part, and a small sinuation in the third, posterior part; the median ramus is, as often as not, produced in a slightly slanting, narrow dorsal ramus a little thickened at the tip, but sometimes wanting the connecting dorsal band, when there is only a small, round, post median dorsal spot left; underside glowing-red, abdomen greenish- blue, very slightly pilose. In size and colouriny this species resembles much Cucindela marginella. Length, 10-12; width, 3-4™-™° Cape Colony (Port Hlizabeth), ‘Transvaal (Potchefstroom, Boksburg), Orange Free State (Parys), Natal (Frere). Gen. MYRMECOPTERA. Germ. Mag, Zool. Ins, A., 1843, t. 124. Body oblongo-ovate, wingless ; mentum with a very minute median tooth, labrum with five teeth; third articulation ‘of the labial palpi very thick; head broader than the prothorax ; antenne with the four basal joints filiform, the other five compressed, sub-foliated, the last two more slightly dilated outwardly; prothorax long, narrow, nearly cylindrical, slightly narrowed at the base and apex, with a very fine median longitudinal groove, (but neither the transverse impressions nor the median groove are deep enough to give to the disk the appearance of being raised) and always finely and closely plicated 1892.] of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 61 transversely ; elytra oblongo-ovate, not broader than the prothorax at the base, those of the male broadening slightly past the middle, and those of the female much more ampliated, always convex, aculeated behind, with the suture raised and produced at the apex in two sharp spines, nearly always longer in the male ; legs very long and slender, tarsi and tibiee grooved in the upper part, the three basal joints of the fore tarsi of the male dilated and ciliated underneath. De Chaudoir has included in the genus Dromica, Dejean, the Myrmecoptera of Germar, and Cosmema of Boheman. There is no distinctive generic character between the three, except the dissimi- larity in shape of the antennee, and also the general facies. Even then, apart from the general facies there is a strong connect- ing link between the Myrmecoptera (as I understand them) and the Dromica, in D. Clathrata with thickened antenne, and D. pseudo- clathrata ; in the last-named species these organs are as much sub- foliated externally as in any other Myrmecoptera. I propose, however, to retain the three genera and to include in : Myrmecoptera. All the species with thickened antennz, and long, nar- row prothorax plicated transversely: type Jf. Ber- tolontt. Dromica. A. Species with thickened antenne and quadrate pro- thorax with: two protuberances on the disk: type D. pseudoclathrata. B. Semi-filiform antennee and quadrate prothorax with two protuberances on the disk. D. tuberculata. (’. Antenne very filiform. Cosmema. Bodies very slender, and prothorax sub-cylindrical, impressed transversely in front and behind, but without any protuberances on the disk, the two sides of which are only very slightly raised. C. coarciata. The Cicindelidze included in these three genera are wingless insects, extremely agile, which, in spite of their livery, adapt themselves won- derfully well to their surroundings. From all accounts they do not seem to be as gregarious as Cicindela, and are occasionally met with in open glades, stubble or paths ; they run with great rapidity, and are captured with difficulty. 62 M. L. Peringuey’s Descriptive Catalogue [Nov. 30, Myrmecoptera seem to be occasionally met with in Natal and the Southern part of the Transvaal ; their habitat extends, however, from the 24th of lat. S. to Abyssinia ; the South-African species are more numerous between the 26th and 15° lat. They have not been re- corded from Great Namaqualand, but are found in Ovampoland, in the vicinity of the Limpopo, on the banks of the Zambeze, and in the provinces of Mozambique and Delagoa Bay. Outside the South-African limit two specimens of this genus are met with in Abyssinia; one in Somaliland; one in Zanzibar (Lake Jipe) ; one in East Africa (Mamboia) ; and ? one in Angola. I divide the South African species into four different sections : 1. Body slender, elytra with a continuous white supra-marginal band, and a dorsal patch : tenella. 2. Body slender, elytra with a more or less interrupted supra-marginal band, and with dorsal markings : spectabilis. bi-lunata, Saundersi. limbata, Eriksson. 3. Body less slender, elytra costate in the anterior part, and sha- greened in the posterior part, with no white marking, or with an apical white patch : algoensis, Junodi, Bertolont. foveolata, costata, Limpopoiana, 4. Body less slender, elytra costate, foveated or deeply pitted, one white band at the base on each side of the suture, and one apical, sutural, or supra-marginal patch : polyhwmoides, Mauchs. SYNOPSIS OF SPECIES. A, Elytra without any raised lines, - Elytra deeply pitted, outer margin with a continuous yellow band, and a round post median spot on each side of the disk. tenella. Elytra deeply pitted, outer margin with a white humeral band, a median spot, and an apical, long, narrow band, disk with a small round spot. Soveolata: Elytra deeply pitted, with a supra humeral broad white patch, and a post median marginal band reaching the apex, disk with a transverse patch uniting with the marginal band. spectabilis, Elytra deeply pitted, each with a small sub-humeral spot, a 1892. | of the Coleoptera of South Africa. marginal apical narrow band, and a post median arcuated dorsal patch in the shape of a crescent with points down- wards. Elytra deeply pitted, with no humeral spot, but witha nar- row, white marginal post median band, and a very narrow dorsal patch. Hlytra deeply pitted, with a long sub-humeral band, a narrow one reaching the apex, and a post median arcuated dorsal patch shaped like a crescent with the points upwards. Elytra narrowly and closely pitted, no humeral spot, but with a broad, post median yellowish-white marginal band, and a diagonal discoidal patch. Elytra broadly pitted in the anterior part, and coarsely shagreened behind, with no lateral or dorsal markings. Elytra broadly pitted in the anterior part, and coarsely sha- greened behind with an elongated whitish patch near the apex. B, Hlytra with raised lines. Elytra very broadly pitted in the anterior part, and sha- greened behind, each with five raised lines, and an elongated whitish-yellow patch near the apex. Elytra very broadly pitted in the anterior part and sha- greened behind, each with five raised lines, and no whitish- yellow patch near the apex. Elytra broadly pitted in the anterior part, and shagreened behind, each with four raised lines and an elongated whitish patch near the apex. Hlytra broadly pitted in the anterior part, and shagreened from past the middle, each with one raised line near the suture, and an elongated whitish patch near the apex. Hlytra broadly pitted to a short distance from the apex, and each one with five raised lines, a saort white line at the base close to the scutellum, and a sutural elongated patch at the apex. | Elytra pitted, each one with five raised lines, a short yellowish line at the base, close to the scutellum, and an elongated marginal patch near the apex. M. TENELLA, new spec. limbata. Saundersi, bi-lunata. EHrikssoni. Junodi. Algoensis. Bertoloniz. Sossulata. costata. limpopoiana. polyhirmoides. Mauchi. Black, almost opaque on the upper part, prothorax very cylindrical, long, closely and finely plicated obliquely, with the folds very narrow ; 64 M. L. Peéringuey’s Descriptive Catalogue [Nov. 30, elytra oblong, a little ampliated past the middle, with the suture pro- duced apically in two long, sharp spines; they are closely pitted and have on each side a broad, continuous yellowish supra-marginal band reaching from a little below the shoulder to the apex, and a round spot of the same colour on the disk at a little past the median part ; legs and underside reddish with a green metallic tinge. Length, 8; width, 2™-™ J have seen only one male example of this pretty species, which was captured near Barberton (Transvaal). M. FOVEOLATA. Péring. dirans. 8, Air Phil. Soc. 1888, vola tv. p. 71. Violaceous-black, moderately shining on the upper part, much more so underneath ; labrum yellowish-white, edged with black, head strigose ; prothorax very long, cylindrical, closely plicated obliquely ; elytra deeply pitted with a row on each side of deeper golden fovee at a short distance from the suture, and reaching from the base to about the middle, narrow, a little ampliated past the middle with the suture produced apically in two long acute spines, and having on each elytron a supra-marginal narrow band below the shoulder, another one in the middle, and a third one near the apex ; legs metallic blue-black. Length, L3is width, 4im.m The type has no dorsal markings, but a male in the British Museum has a small round dot on the post median part of each elytron, and the sub-humeral supra-marginal band is not so well defined as in the type- ? Damaraland. Natal (D’Urban), teste Herr Guienzius. M. SPECTABILIS, new species. Dark metallic blue-black, moderately shining on the upper part ; Jabrum white with the apical and basal part narrowly edged with black ; head strigose ; prothorax long, cylindrical, closely plicated obliquely ; 1892. ] of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 65 elytra very elongated, deeply pitted, very slightly ampliated past the middle (male) with the apical sutural part produced in two long, sharp, teeth, and having ou each elytron a, supra-humeral broad, whitish patch, and another one on the post median part of the disk which unites with.a broad supra-marginal band reaching the avex ; underside steel-b!ue with a greenish iridescence. Length, 15; Jat., 3™-™ Zambezia. M. timpata, Bertol. Diss. Ins. Coleopt. Bologn., 1858, p. 14,-t. 1, Dark metallic blue-black, moderately shining ; labrum black in the centre and yellow on the outer sides, head strigose ; prothorax cylin- drical, plicated obliquely ; elytra deeply pitted, ampliated past the middle with the suture produced at the apex in two short spines, and having on each above the outer margin a sub-humeral small dot, and a narrow straight band reaching from past the middle to the apex as well as a post median dorsal patch in the shape of a crescent, the tio points of which are directed towards the apex. Length, 17™-™ Mozambique, De Chaudoir’s Collection. M. Saunpers!, Chaud. Catal. Collect, Cicind, 1865, p. 51. Dark metallic blue-black, moderately shining ; size and facies of M. limbata, and coloured alike ; elytra with the apical suture ending in two long spines, no sub-humeral white spot, the apical supra-marginal band is the same shape as that of limbata, but the dorsal patches arc very small and round. : The two examples in De Chaudoir’s Collection are males. Delagoa Bay (teste De Chaud.) 66 M. L. Péringuey’s Descriptive Catalogue [Nov. 30, M. Bi-LuNATA. Dohrn. Stett. Ent. Zeit. vol, XLIV., 1883, p. 278. Dark metallic blue-black, almost opaque on the upper part; head strigose, labrum of male white with the base and apex narrowly cdged with black, that of the female black and edged laterally with white, head strigose; prothorax cylindrical, plicated obliquely ; elytra of the male more deeply pitted than those of the female, each with a median series of deeper fovere with a golden tinge reaching from the base to a little past the nsiddle, apical sutural teeth of the male very Jong and sharp, those of the female very short, very little ampliated from past the middle in the male, much more in the female and with each elytron having a supra-marginal broad white band reaching from below the shoulder to the middle in the male, but shorter in the female, another one reaching from past the middle to the apex, and also a distinct crescent-shaped post median dorsal patch, the points of which are directed towards the base. Length, 15-18; width, 4-5" Country between Limpopo and Zambeze (T. Ayres), Zambeze River (Dr. Bradshaw). M. Erixssoni. Peéring. Trans. South. Afric. Philos. Society, 1892,: p. 5. Brassy-green, shining, with the underside steel-blue; head strigose, labrum entirely black; prothorax, long, cylindrical, finely plicated obliquely ; elytra very closely and narrowly pitted, with a faint series of broader spots on each side of the suture, a little ampliated past — the middle with the suture ending in two short spines at the apex, and each one having at about the middle of the disk a diagonal yellowish-white patch directed towards the outer margin where it coalesces with a broad supra-marginal band of the same colour reaching from past the middle to the apex. Male unknown, 1892. | of the Coleoptera of South Africa. . 67 Length, 14-15 ; width, 4™™ ~ Allied to MM. nobilitata, Gerst., from Lake Jipe. Northern Ovampoland. M. Junopi. Péring. Trans, 8. Afric. Philos. Society, 1892, p. 95. Metallic blue-black, shining on the upper part; labrum yellow with a black basal patch in the male, that of the female black with the outer sides narrowly edged with white; head strigose; prothorax very long, slender, cylindrical, finely plicated obliquely; elytra deeply pitted from the base to about past the middle, and less deeply in the posterior part, and having a row of deeper foveee with a golden tinge reaching from the base to about the middle, the apical part of the suture produced in two very long, sharp spines in both sexes, but those of the male are the longest, no white patch on the margin or disk; underside steel-blue, very shining. Length, 18-20; width, 43" From Delagoa Bay—20 miles from Lourenco Marques. Seen a female from that locality the labrum of which is entirely black. M. ALGOENSIS. Metallic blue-black, shining on the upper part; labrum totally black (female) ; head strigose, prothorax very long, slender, cylindrical, finely plicated obliquely; elytra deeply pitted from the base to about the middle, but less deeply in the posterior part, and having a row of deeper fovese with a golden tinge reaching from the base to about the middle: apical part of the suture produced in two very sharp, long spines, a white elongated patch on the posterior margin. _ Length, 19; lat., 4¢™™ Differs only from M. Junodt, in having an apical marginal 68 M, L. Peéringuey’s Descriptive Catalogue [Nov. 30, whitish hand, which is entirely absent in the 13 examples of Junodi, which I have examined. From Rikatla (Delagoa Bay). M. BERtTouontil. Thoms. Revue. Zool., 1856, p. 482, Lacord. Gen, Atl, t. 1, f. 4. Metallic black on the upper part, shining dark-blue underneath ; head strigose, labrum black edged with yellowish-white outwardly ; prothorax cylindrical but not very long, plicated obliquely; elytra much ampliated past the middle, acuminated behind with the apical part of the suture produced in two moderately long, sharp spines, deeply and broadly foveated from the base to past the middle, strongly shagreened behind, and each one having five slightly sinuated raised lines, the supra-marginal of which is the longest and reaches to past the middle, and also a small elongated, often inconspicuous, yellowish- white spot near the apex. M. FossuLaTa. Wallengr. Entom, Tidskr, vol. II., 1881, p. 11. It is with some doubt that I place here this species which I know from the description only ; if it is a true Myrmecoptera it will prove very probably identical with M. Bertolonii, lacking only the apical yellowish-white marginal marking on the elytra: on the other hand no §. African. Myrmecoptera can be said to have the dorsal part of the elytra moderately depressed (dorso subplano) but in Dromica the dorsal part of the male is certainly depressed. Bronze-black ; antennee dilated outwardly with the apical points attenuated; labrum with the margins white but not the apex; base of mandibles whitish; palpi yellow, black at the apex; head and prothorax closely but not very rugosely plicated, and both with a moderately shining dark-blue tinge, the prothorax slightly grooved in the middle, impressed obliquely in front and behind, with the disk hardly £3925) 9° of the Coleoptera of South Africa. ) 69 raised; elytra depressed in the dorsal part, each with five raised lines (costee), the said lines somewhat obliterated past the middle, with the intervals closely fossulated, and coarsely punctuated towards the apex; under-part of the body, especially the abdomen, dark-blue; legs brassy-black. Length, 18"™™ 1Captured near Christiana (Transvaal), teste Wallengren. M. COSTATA. new species. pion Ul he.16; Black with brassy tinge on the upper part, steel-blue underneath ; head strigose, labrum black with outer edges yellow; prothorax plicated obliquely, cylindrical but not very long; elytra ampliated past the middle, acuminated behind, with the apical sutural spines short but acute, deeply foveated from the base to a little past the middle, coarsely shagreened from there to the apex, and each one having four slightly wavering raised lines reaching only to a little past the middle, and also a conspicuous marginal, short, white band near the apex. The fovese of the anterior part of the elytra are not so broad as those of M. Bertoloni to which it is however closely allied, but Bertoloni has five raised lines on each elytron, whereas costata has only four.? Male unknown. Marico and Potchefstroom (Transvaal). M. LIMPOPOIANA. new spec. Black with a brassy tinge, moderately shining on the upper part, steel-blue underneath; head strigose, Jabrum quite black - or 1Mr. Wallengren has no longer the typical example of M. fossulata in his possession, but he writes that so far as he remembers, the facies is that of M. costata, as figured in plate IL, fig. 6. *The insect figured in plate IJ. should have four lines on each elytron instead of two. 70 M. L. Péringuey’s Descriptive Catalogue [Nov. 380, black in the centre and broadly edged with yellow; prothorax plicated obliquely, long, cylindrical; elytra ampliated past the middle, with apical spines of the suture very short, deeply foveated from the base to the middle with the postical part closely shagreened; and each one has a slightly raised line, parallel to the suture and reaching the middle, and also an inconspicuous, short, narrow white line near the apex. Length, 21; width, 63"""" I have not seen the male of this species. Middle Limpopo (Neighbourhood of Fort Tuli). M. POLYHIRMOIDES. Bates. Ent, Month. Magaz,, 1892, p. 286. M, Houusi. Dohrn, Stett. Ent. Zeit. XLIL., p. 318. Black with a brassy tinge, dark-blue undeineath; head strigose, labrum black with a broad white central patch in the male, and a narrow line in the female; prothorax not very long, cylindrical, plicated obliquely; elytra oblongo-ovate, very little ampliated past the middle, apical sutural spines of the male long and sharp, those of the female very short, almost obtuse; they are broadly foveated from the base to three-fourths of their length, and closely shagreened in the postical part; each one has five slightly sinuated raised lines edging the foveae (which have a bright golden tinge) also a narrow basal white band parallel and close to the suture, not reaching the median part of the elytron, and an elongated apical patch of the same colour extending on both sides of the suture. Length, 21-22; 5-63: Middle Limpopo (neighbourhood of Fort Tuli). M. Mavcut. Bates. | Ent. Month. Magaz., 1872, p. 287, M, OATESI. Westw. Oates’ Matabeleland, 1881, p. 359, pl. G, fig. 5, Black, opaque on the upper part, shining underneath; head strigose, 1892.] of the Coleoptera of South Africa. ad labrum black with a yellowish median band; prothorax elongated, sub-cylindrical, plicated transversely, the longitudinal median groove with white tomentum; elytra ampliated past the middle with the apical sutural spines short, deeply and closely pitted; on each one are five raised, narrow lines disappearing before reaching the apex, and also a basal, very short, yellowish-white band, and an elongated supra-marginal patch of the same colour close to the apex. Length, 24-25 5 74-90™ Middle Limpopo, Zambeze River. The sub-foliation of the antenne and the shape of the prothorax as delineated in Oate’s Matabeleland, are defective. Gen. DROMICA. Dejean. Spec, II, 1826, p, 434. Body oblongo-ovate, wingless, labrum five-dented; mentum with a very small median tooth, third articulation of the labial palpi thickened; head slightly broader than the prothorax; antenne with the first four basal joints filiform and the other seven either com pressed or sub-foliated or filiform; prothorax short, quadrate, deeply impressed in front and behind and grooved in the centre, with the two sides of the disk produced in a long tubercle ; elytra oblong, as broad as the prothorax at the base, those of the male a little depressed and nearly parallel, the female’s convex and nearly always ampliated past the middle, suture raised and ending in two apical moderately sharp spines in the male, nearly obtuse in the female; legs long and slender, tarsi and tibiee not grooved in the upper part, the three basal joints of the fore tarsi of the male dilated and ciliated. Dromica is met with in the Cape Colony (Seymour, Graham’s Town, East London), in Natal, Zululand, the Transvaal, Middle Limpopo and Mozambique. So far as I am aware species of this genus have not been captured outside the South-African limit. 72 M. L. Peringuey’s Descriptive Catalogue [Nov. 30, SYNOPSIS OF SPECIES. A, Antenne compressed (a) or sub-foliated (0). a, Hlytra with five raised lines on each side reaching from the base to two-thirds of the length with intervals broadly pitted, very rugose behind and having a small elongated or rounded whitish spot on each sub-apical outer margin. clathrata. b, Elytra with six raised lines on each side reaching from the base to two-thirds of the length, intervals reticulated, not foveated, and with an elongated whitish patch on each sub-apical outer margin. pseudo-clathrata. Elytra with five raised lines reaching from the base to two- thirds of the length with the intervals very broadly foveated, and having on each side at a little distance of the suture a broad white apical band. grandis. B, Antenne filiform. ; Hlytra with five raised lines on each side, the two dorsal ones shorter than the others, the first, third and fourth uniting above the apex, and having on-each side a supra-marginal, _ apical white patch, often very indistinct. sculpturata. Elytra with five raised lines on each side, the first one shorter than the. third and fourth, the wing covers of the female very convex, the supra apical marginal patch sometimes indistinct, Natalica. Elytra with four raised lines on each side, reaching to a short distance from the apex, and having on each side a small humeral white spot, a median one and an apical band of the same colour. octocostata. Elytra having on each side a short basal ridge near the suture, a dorsal one. consisting of four disconnected oblique ridges, a supra-marginal uninterrupted one reaching from the shoulder to two-thirds of the length, and the outer margin -with a small humeral whitish dot, often wanting, another ~ one of the same size in the median part, ard a very fine sub-apical line of the same colour. tuberculata. Elytra as in tuberculata, the dorsal ridges more raised, outer margin with a small sub-humeral yellowish-white round dot, — a Jarger one in the median part and a broad band near the apex. sae var, carinulata, “Smaller than tuberculata and carinulata; elytra as in tuberculata, outer margin with a sub-humeral yellowish- white band, in both sexes, a broad spot in the centre, and an elongated apical band. % var. Transvaalensis, 1892. | of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 73 - Elytra as in tuberculata, but with the outer supra-marginal ridge sinuated, but reaching from the shoulder t> the apex, outer margin with a post median dot and an elongated sub-apical whitish band. var. acuminata, Elytra as in tuberculata, but with a white broad uninterrupted supra-marginal ridge reaching from the shoulder to the apex albivittis. Elytra with an uninterrupted raised line near the suture, a dcrsal one three times interrupted, a second dorsal one consisting of three disconnected oblique ridges, and a continuous external one reaching from the shoulder to near the apex. immaculat ’. 2 D. CLATHRATA. Klug. Jahrb. 1, p. 40, 1834. D. GIGANTEA. Bréme, Annal. Franc., 1844, p. 289, pl. 7, fig. 3. Metallic black, with a greenish and golden tinge on the upper part, dark, metallic blue underneath; head strigose, antennz with the seven apical joints compressed and sub-dilated outwardly ; labrum black in both sexes, with a median, narrow, yellowish longitudinal band; prothorax quadrate, plicated, the plication sinuated, deeply impressed in front and behind, grooved in the centre, the disk produced in two long protuberances; elytra elongated: those of the male nearly parallel, and much depressed, of the female very convex and much ampliated a little past the middle, suture raised and ending in two very short spines, (one on each side); on each elytron are five, slightly sinuose, raised lines reaching from the base to two-thirds of the length (the two external ones reaching a little further than the others) the intervals of which are foveated, with the foveee reticulated, the apical part is very rugose, and has a marginal, more or less rounded white patch, which is often very indistinct, or entirely wanting; legs, very dark- blue with a bronze tinge. | Length, 17-23; width, 5-8™° - There can be no doubt as to the identity of D. gigantea with 74 M. L. Péringuey’s Descriptive Catalogue [Nov. 30, D.clathrata, and the typical clathrata of De Chaudoir’s, represented by one example only in his collection, is a small male specimen in which the outer, or fifth costa is well defined, and the postical dot is more elongated than usual; this postical whitish patch is often reduced to a mere dot, and even disappears altogether in specimens captured in one locality and at different times of the year. The compression and dilatation of the joints of the antenne vary also; in some examples before me from Potchefstroom (Transvaal), they are almost sub- foliated, although always in a lesser degree than in the two species pseudo-clathrata and grandis, and also sub-filiform or at least not much dilated, in both sexes. Transvaal (Klerksdorp, Boksburg, Potchefstroom, Rustenburg), Mozambique (teste Bertoloni), Delagoa Bay, Lake N’Gami (teste Chaudoir). , D. PSEUDO-CLATHRATA. new species. Metallic black with a greenish, golden tinge on the upper part, dark metallic blue underneath; antenne with the seven apical joints compressed and sub-foliated outwardly ; labrum black with a narrow median, yellowish longitudinal band, head strigose; prothorax quadrate, grooved in the centre, deeply impressed in front and behind, the disk produced in two long protuberances, plicated transversely ; elytra ovate, very convex, ampliated at a little past the middle, suture ending in two short spines on each side, each elytron with six raised lines not sinuose, and of equal length reaching from the base to three-fourths of the length, (the outer one disappears below the humeral angle), the intervals between these raised lines are closely plicated but not foveated, the posterior part is very rugose and has on each side a long, marginal, white patch which does not extend as far as the apex; legs dark-blue with a bronze tinge. Length, 25; width, 8™-™ Allied to clathrata, but the joints of the antenne are much more compressed, the elytra are not so suddenly ampliated past the middle, and are therefore more ovate, the raised lines, six in number 1892.] of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 75 instead of five, are nearly straight instead of being sinuose as in clathrata, the reticulation of the interstices is different, and the suture is distinctly bi-spinose on each side. Male unknown. Transvaal (no exact locality). D. GRANDIS. new species. Brassy-black, the foveee of the elytra with a golden sheen; head strigose, labrum black with a median, narrow, yellowish band in both sexes; antennze with the exception of the first four basal joints sub-foliated ; prothorax quadrate, as broad as the head, short, deeply impressed in the anterior and posterior parts, plicated, with the folds sinuated, and with the disk produced im two long protuberances ; elytra of the male nearly parallel, depressel, those of the female oblong, ampliated in the middle and gradually narrowed behind, the sutural apical spines longer in the male than in the female, each elytron with five slightly raised lines reaching from the base to two-thirds of the Jength, the intervals between the lines very broadly foveated, the foveze reticulated, and the posterior part very rugose; on each side of the posterior part, and reaching about from the apex to the dorsal coste, is a long, broad, parenthesis-like white band. Length, 19-24; width, 6-8™™: Allied to D. clathrata, but easily distinguished owing to the sub- foliated antennee, and the different shape of the apical markings of the elytra; the elytra of the female are also more gradually ampliated from the base to the middle, the alveole are much broader and deeper, and the outer line, a very narrow one, runs quite close to the fourth, instead of being broadly separated as in D. clathrata. 7 I have also received two smaller examples of this species from Barberton (Transvaal), in which the apical white patch is not discernible; I believe these examples to be immature. Middle Limpopo (Fort Tuli), Transvaal (Barberton). 76 M. L. Peéringueys Descriptive Catalogue [Nov. 30, D. SCULPTURATA. Bohem. Insect. Caffrar, part I, 1848, p. 17. D. BIS-BICARINATA. Chaud. Rev. Zoolog., 1864, p. 10. D, QUADRICOLLIS, Chaud. Rev. Zool., 1864, p. 37. Brassy-black, shining; head strigose, antenne filiform, labrum yellowish-white, narrowly edged with black in both sexes; prothorax quadrate, strongly impressed in front and behind, grooved in the centre, and with the disk produced in two elongated protuberances ; elytra very much depressed, those of the male nearly parallel, with the two sutura} apical spines short, those of the females ampliated past the middle, with the sutural part slight'y divaricating and blunt; they are covered with closely set, somewhat ret'culated, moderately deep punctures, and have on each side five raised lines, the second and third, running close to each other coalesce near the base, reach a little beyond the middle where they unite, and the first, fourth and fifth reach to a little distance short of the apex where they also unite; on each side of the outer apical angle is a white, elongated, supra-marginal, more or less conspicuous patch, sometimes entirely absent. Legs bluish-black, with the base of the tibiae and at times the hind shanks slightly reddish. Length, 19-22; width, 4-8""™ Natal (Frere). D. bis-bicarinata is undoubtedly identical with D. sculpturata. Chaudoir himself admits that the only difference between the two is the colouring of the basal part of the tibise. D. quadricollis, which I have closely examined, does not. seem to me to differ from bis-bicarinata beyond having in the female a little more sideways infuscated labrum, in one of the males (from Damara- land) the second and third coste are very short, but the same thing occurs also in males of D, clathrata captured in one locality. 1892. | of the Coleoptera of South Africa. qT D. NATALICA. new species. Colouring and size of the preceding species, the female, however, of a more light-bronze sheen, head and prothorax similar; elytra of the male elongated, plane on the back, with the apical spines moderately long, sharp, and straight, those of the female very convex, the apical part hardly divaricating and without any spines, set with broad, some- what reticulated, deep punctures, and having on each side five raised smooth lines; the first one near the suture does not reach the base, and disappears after the median part of the disk, the two discoidal ones unite at a short distance from the base, run parallel to one another and reach about to three-fourths of the length, and the fourth and fifth stop short of the apex; on each side is an elongated white patch, sometimes missing. Length, 19-22; width, 4-8"-" Although the male, or at least what I conjecture to be the male, is hardly discernible from sculptwrata, the only difference being in the first dorsal carina very short in the anterior part, and the two dorsal ones which are longer than in sculpturata, the female is very distinct owing to the convex form of the elytra, the first dorsal carina is also not so well definea, nor does it reach so far towards the apex. Natal (D’Urban). D. ocrocosTaTaA, Chaud. Rey. Zool. 1864, p. 38, Brassy with a golden tinge; head strigose, labrum black with a median yellowish band ; prothorax irregularly plicated, quadrate, with the discoidal protuberances much raised; elytra oblongo-ovate, con- vex, covered with broad punctures, and the apical, sutural parts pro- duced in very sharp spines; they have on each side four acute raised lines placed at the same distance from one another, and disap- pearing before reaching the apex, on the outer margin there is a sub- humeral white spot, a post median one, rounder than the sub-humeral 78 M, L. Péringquey’s Descriptive Catalogue [Nov. 30, spot, and sometimes missing, and a moderately narrow line of the same colour near the apex. Length, 16-18 ; width, 7™™ De Chaudoir’s types have no post median marginal spots, but I have seen two examples in the British Museum in which these mark- ings are well defined. Delagoa Bay. D. TUBERCULATA. Hope. Animal Kingdom, 1, 1832, p. 265, pl. 29, fig. 6. Brassy, moderately shining on the upper part, antenneze and under- side cyaneous; head strigose, labrum of the male yellowish-white narrowly edged with black, that of the female black with a median yellowish band ; prothorax irregularly plicated, quadrate with the dis- coidal protuberances much raised and the posterior angles very acute ; elytra oblong, not much depressed on the upper part in the male, convex in the female, acuminated behind, with the sutural apical part a little divaricating and slightly spinose ; they are covered with closely set punctures, and have on each side a short ridge running from the base to one-fourth of the length, a dorsal one consisting of four oblique disconnected ridges and an external uninterrupted one above the outer margin and reaching from the shoulder to three- fourths of the length ; in the outer margin there is a small whitish dot placed at about the middle, and a small narrow line of the same colour near the apex; legs cyaneous, with the tibie somewhat in- fuscated. Length, 15; width, 5" Cape Colony (Seymour). D. TUBERCULATA. Var. CARINULATA. Chaud. Bullet. Mose. 1860, IV., 306. Brassy, or brassy-black, moderately shining on the upper part, -1892.] of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 79 cyaneous-black underneath ; head strigose, labrum of the male yellowish- white narrowly edged with black, that of the female black with a median yellowish band ; prothorax very quadrate, irregularly plicated, the discoidal protuberances much raised, and the posterior angles very acute ; elytra oblong, somewhat depressed on the upper part in the male, those of the female very convex, acuminated behind, with the sutural apical part a little divaricating and slightly spinose ; they are covered with closely set punctures and have on each side a short ridge running from the base to one-fourth of the length, a dorsal one consisting of four oblique disconnected ridges, and an external uninter- rupted one above the outer margin and reaching from the shoulder to three-fourths of the length; in the outer margin there is a sub- humeral white dot, a broad one a little past the middle, and an elon- gated band of the same colour near the apex ; the sub-humeral dot is wanting in the female examples which I have examined. Extremely near tuberculata ; the carinse of the elytra are more raised and the marginal dot and patches larger and more clearly defined. Length, 15-17; width, 4-53" Natal (D’Urban); Zululand (Eshowe). D. TUBERCULATA. Var. TRANSVAALENSIS. Brassy or coppery-green, very shining, underside dark-blue, head strigose, labrum yellowish-white, narrowly edged with black in both sexes ; prothorax irregularly plicated, quadrate with the protuberances of the disk much raised and the posterior angles very acute; elytra oblong, hardly depressed on the upper part in the male, convex but not much ampliated in the female, acuminated behind, the male with two long, sharp sutural spines, the female’s are nearly blunt; they are covered with closely set punctures, and have on each side a short basal ridge, a dorsal one consisting of four oblique disconnected ridges, and an external uninterrupted one above the outer margin reaching from the shoulder to a little past the middle ; in the outer margin there is a long gsub-humeral yellowish-white band, a broad 80 M. L. Péringuey’s Descriptive Catalogue (Nov. 30, median patch, and a band of the same colour near the apex ; the tibie are slightly infuscated. Length, 15 ; width, 5™™ Smaller than tuberculata and carinulata, and with the marginal markings very well defined ; the sub-humeral band is very distinct in both sexes. Transvaal (Lydenburg). D, TUBERCULATA. Var. ACUMINATA. Chaud. Rev. Zool. 1864. p. 40. _Brassy or brassy-black, underside dark-blue ; head strigose, labrum yellowish-white narrowly edged with black ; prothorax irregularly pli- cated, quadrate, with the protuberances of the disk much raised ; elytra oblong, hardly depressed in the male, acuminated behind, the male with two long sutural spines ; they are covered with closely set punctures, and have on each side a short basal ridge, a dorsal one consisting of four oblique disconnected ridges, and an external one reaching from the shoulder to the apex; in the outer margin there is a median yellowish-white patch, and an elongated band of the same colour near the apex. Closely allied to the preceding variety ; lacks, however, the sub- humeral whitish band, and the external ridge reaches the apex. . Length, 15; width, 5™™ D. ALBIVITTIS. Chaud. Catal. Collect. 1865. p. 50. Brassy, shining, dark-blue underneath ; head strigose, labrum of the male whitish and narrowly edged with white, that of the female more broadly edged with black, or having sometimes a lateral yellowish band on each side and one in the middle; prothorax irregularly plicated, quadrate, with the discoidal protuberances much raised, and 1892. ] of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 81 the posterior angles very acute ; elytra oblong, not much depressed in the male, a little more convex in the female, acuminated behind, with the apical sutural part very spinose in the male, and less so in the female; they are covered with closely set punctures, and have on each side a short basal ridge, a dorsal one consisting of four oblique disconnected ridges, and a broad, uninterrupted, external, _ white supra-marginal ridge reaching from the base to the apex. Length, 14-16 ; width, 5-54™™ Transvaal (Lydenburg, Barberton). D. IMMACULATA. Péring. Trans. 8. Afric, Phil, Soc., vol. IV., 1888, p. 70. pl. I, fig. 7. Brassy, moderately shining, underside dark-blue ; head strigose, labrum (female) black with a median yellowish band; prothorax irregularly plicated, quadrate, with the protuberances of the disk much raised, and the posterior angles acute ; elytra oblong, convex, closely and deeply punctured, suture divaricating at the apex and obtuse ; they have each a narrow raised liné parallel to the suture and nearly reaching the apex, a dorsal one interrupted as it reaches the middle and con- tinued by a short line, a second discoidal one formed by four discon- nected oblique ridges and an external, continuous supra-marginal one reaching nearly from the shoulder to the apex. Length, 18 ; width, 6™™ A female example has a very small, almost obsolete, median yellowish dot in the lateral margin. _ Length, 18; width, 6™™ Cape Colony (Graham’s Town). Gen. COSMEMA. Bohem. Insecta Caffrarie, 1848, Part. I, p. 19. Body very slender, wingless, oblong, convex, labrum five dentate 82 M. L. Péringuey’s Descriptive Catalogue [Nov. 30, (the teeth more pronounced in the female), mentum with a very minute median tooth, third articulation of the labial palpi thickened ; head very slightly broader than the prothorax, antenne filiform ; prothorax short, sub-cylindrical,! slightly impressed transversely in front and behind, grooved in the centre, with the two sides of the upper part of the disk a little raised, and finely plicated transversely ; elytra elongated, nearly parallel in the male, ampliated past the middle in the female, much acuminated behind and generally ending in two sharp spines, very long and slightly divaricating in the male, much shorter in the female; legs long and very slender, anterior tibize and all tarsi finely grooved on the upper part, the three first joints of the fore-tarsi of the male dilated and ciliated. Cosmema occurs in the Hastern part of Cape Colony (Port Hlizabeth, Sunday River, Albany, Graham’s Town), Natal (D’Urban, Maritzburg), Zululand (Eshowe), Transvaal (Parys, Potchefstroom, Rustenburg, Boksburg, Barberton, Lydenburg), British Bechuanaland, Lake N’Gami, and Delagoa Bay. This genus has not, to my knowledge, been found in the Western part of Cape Colony. Besides the South-African species, three more have been described: one from East-Central Africa (Mamboia), one from the river Quango, and one from Somaliland. SYNOPSIS OF SPECIES. A, Outer margins of elytra with yellowish-white, interrupted lines or spots: Hlytra depressed, shagreened, each with three narrow yellowish-white supra- marine) bands in the male, two only in the female. . tri-notata. Hlytra deeply pitted, each with a supra- anareinal narrow, yellow band reaching from the shoulder past the middle, and a postical one. ambitiosa. Hlytra deeply pitted, each with three abichc, yellow, supra- marginal spots, sex-maculata. Elytra deeply pitted, each with three very large, rounded yellow supra-marginal spots, citreo-guttata, 1The prothorax of C. tri notata is quadrate. 1892.] of the Coleoptera of South Africa. Elytra finely shagreened, each with three yellowish-white supra-marginal oblong yellow patches, the humeral one the smallest of the three. Elytra finely shagreened, each with two supra-marginal, yellowish-white spots and a thin postical band. Elytra finely shagreened, each with a median supra-mar- ginal dot and a narrow postical band. Elytra deeply pitted from the base to the middle, less so in the postical part, each with a small median yellowish supra-marginal dot and a postical narrow line. B, Elytra closely pitted, no lateral supra-marginal spot or band. C Elytra with a continuous lateral white or yellowish-white band. Elytra finely shagreened, each with the suture and also the postical outer-margin produced on an acute spine, the male with a humeral dot and a narrow supra-marginal white band, the female without. the humeral dot, Hlytra closely pitted, the supra-marginal, narrow, white band reaching from the shoulder to the apex. Elytra broadly pitted, supra-marginal white band reaching from the shoulder to the apex. Elytra proadly pitted, supra-marginal white band reaching from the shoulder to the apex and slightly toothed inwardly past the middle. D, Elytra with a lateral white band throwing a longer or shorter ramus past the middle. Hlytra closely and narrowly pitted, the supra-marginal, moderately narrow, white band with an inward, short ramus. Hlytra closely pitted with the supra-marginal broad band reaching from the base to past the middle, emitting 4 short, broad ramus inwardly and continued, without being disconnected, a little nearer the margin. Elytra closely and narrowly pitted, the supra-marginal, moderately narrow, white band directed inwardly, past the middle, and disconnected with the postical band. Hlytra deeply pitted, the supra-marginal band emitting past the middle a very long narrow ramus directed backwards. Elytra deeply pitted, the supra-marginal band broad and disconnected behind with the postical lateral band. 83 Gruts. elegantula. brevipennts. variolata. gilvipes. lepida. marginella. CONNEXA. lateralis. coarctata. vittata. hamata. Surcata. PAaMIGera, 84 M. L. Péringuey’s Descriptive Catalogue [Nov. 30, EHlytra closely, but not deeply, punctured, each with a narrow, apical white band. simples. £, Elytra with a supra-margina! band or spot. Elytra strongly granulated, each with a narrow, elongated, white apical patch. granulata. C. TRI-NoTaTa, Klug. Jahrb. I, p. 40. C. INTERRUPTA. Klug, loc. cit. p. 40. Brassy, shining on the upper part, cyaneous-black underneath ; head strigose, labrum of the male pale-yellow edged with a very narrow black line, that of the female also edged with black, but having, two infuscated patches in the centre; prothorax quadrate, finely shagreened, impressed transversely at the base and apex, grooved in the centre and with the two sides of the disk slightly gibbose ; elytra elongated, depressed, acuminated behind, those of the female not much ampliated past the middle, suture not produced into spines at the apex in either sex, regularly shagreened, and having on each side, above the outer margin, an elongated humeral patch, a narrow line in the middle, and a postical one reaching the apex, the humeral patch is wanting in the female; femora cyaneous, tibie and tarsi reddish. Length, 15 ; width, 5"™ The shape of the prothorax is much more quadrate than in the other species of the genus, not so much, however, as in Dromica. Cape Colony. Exact locality unknown. C, AMBITIOSA. new spec. Bluish-black, little shining on the upper part, dark metallic-blue underneath ; head finely strigose, labrum of male yellow, narrowly edged with black ; prothorax sub-cylindrical, finely plicated, trans- versely impressed in front and behind, grooved in the centre and with the two sides of the disk slightly raised; elytra convex, narrow, deeply and closely pitted, with the suture produced at the apex in two 1892. | of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 85 acute spines ; they have on each side, above the outer margin, a moderately broad, humeral, yellowish-white band coalescing with a median one, and also a third and disconnected band, of the same colour which reaches the apex ; tibiz reddish. Length, 18 ; width, 8"-™ I only know the male (one example) and it is quite possible that the junction of the humeral band with the median one is accidental. Closely allied to C. sex-maculata, Chaud., but a little more deeply pitted ; the prothorax is narrower, and the lateral yellow patches are longer and narrower, Transvaal (Barberton). C. SEX-MACULATA. Chaud. Dleell ig. Sa Bull. Mosc., 1860, [V. p. 306. Bluish-black, shining but little on the upper part, dark metallic- blue underneath, and very shining ; head strigose, labrum of the male yellow, edged with black; that of the female black and yellow in the centre ; prothorax sub-quadrate, finely plicated, impressed transversely in front and behind, grooved in the centre, the two sides of the disk slightly raised ; elytra narrow in the male, ampliated at about the middle in the female, deeply and closely pitted, the suture ending in two apical acute spines, those of the male longer than the female’s ; they have on each side, above the outer margin, a humeral elongated spot, a short one at about the middle, and a third one near the apex which it does not reach ; the knees and tibie are sometimes reddish. ~ Length, 14-15 ; width, 4-5" Transvaal (Lydenburg, Potchefstroom), Delagoa Bay (teste Chaud.). C. CITREO-GUTTATA. Chaud. Rev. Zool., 1864, p. 41. Bluish-black, but little shining on the upper part, dark metallie- blue, very shining underneath ; head strigose, labrum of the male 86 M, L. Péringuey’s Descriptive Catalogue [Nov. 30, yellowish, finely edged with black, that of the female black and yellow in the centre; prothorax sub-quadrate, finely plicated, impressed transversely in front and behind, grooved in the centre, with the two sides of the disk slightly raised ; elytra narrow in the male, much ampliated, a little past the middle in the female, deeply and closely pitted, the suture ending in two long, sharp spines in the male, much shorter in the female; they have on each side, above the outer margin, a very broad, humeral, yellow patch, an ovate one in the middle, and a third one, as broad as the humeral one, near the apex. Length, 14-16; width, 4-6" Differentiated from (. sex-maculata by the size of the lateral patches of the elytra which are considerably larger and more yellow. Zululand, ? Transvaal (Potchefstroom). C. Grutt.. Chaud. Catal. Collect., 1865, p. 52. C, CORDICOLLIS. Chaud., loc. cit., p. 53. Bluish-black, very little shining on the upper part; dark metallic blue, very shining underneath; head and prothorax as in (. sea-maculata, but the prothorax isa little longer and the elytra not quite so deeply pitted; they have on each side, above the outer margin, a very narrow white humeral line, a small dot in the middle and another white line not broader than the humeral one, near the apex, knees and basal part of tibice often reddish. Length,13-15 ; width, 3-5"™ C. cordicollis, Chaud., is a female example of C. Gruti, lacking the humeral white line; one of my female specimens has no median white spots; another has only the apical band left. In the British Museum, I have seen four female examples, two of which had no humeral white line ; two had dark-blue legs, while the legs of the other two were reddish. Port Natal (teste Chaud.), Delagoa Bay (Rikatla). 1892. ] of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 87 CO. ELEGANTULA. Bohem. Insect, Caffr. 1, 1848, p. 24. Brassy-black, shining but little on the upper part, metallic-blue, very shining underneath ; base of antenne reddish ; head strigose, labrum yellow, very narrowly edged with black; prothorax sub- quadrate, plicated, impressed transversely in front and behind, grooved in the centre, with the two sides of the disk very slightly raised ; elytra elongated, shagreened, brassy black, but with the outer sides dark-blue, and having on each side, above the outer margin a humeral round yellowish-dot, a sub-ovate one in the middle and a narrow line of the same colour at the apex ; tibize reddish at the base and apex. Length, 11; width, 3-33""™ Natal (D’Urban, Frere). C. BREVIPENNIS. new spec. Colouring and facies of @. elegantula ; the elytra are much more rugose owing to the punctures being very small, deeper and confluent ; they have no supra-marginal, humeral yellowish dot ; the median dot and also the apical line are slightly narrower. Length, 11; width, 3™™ Natal (Pietermaritzburg). I have retained for this species the manuscript name given by De Chaudoir. C. VARIOLATA. Chaud. Catal. Collect., 1865, p. 51. Brassy-black, very little shining on the upper part ; bright metallic blue underneath ; head strigose, labrum of male yellow, edged with black, antenne short and thicker than in the other species of the genus ; prothorax strongly impressed in front and behind, grooved in the centre, with the two sides of the disk convex; elytra very convex, 88 M. L. Peringuey’s Descriptive Catalogue [Nov. 30, deeply pitted from the base tu about the middle, and much .more narrowly and less deeply from the middle towards the apex, the suture produced in two long spines ; they have on each side, above the outer margin, a small median whitish dot and a narrow white line near the apex ; legs metallic green with the apex of the femora and the tibiz reddish. Length, 133 ; width, 1 Allied to C. brevipennis, but larger ; the shape of the antenne and of the prothorax is different, and the elytra are much more rugose. Delagoa Bay (teste Chaudoir). C. GILVIPES. Bohem. Insect Caffr. 1, p. 25. Greenish-black on the upper part, with the outer sides of the prothorax and elytra violaceous ; antennee and legs red ; head strigose with the labrum of the male yellow, that of the female either totally black, or with a narrow, median, obscure yellow band; prothorax finely plicated, sub-cylindrical, with the sides of the disk but little raised ; elytra elongated, hardly ampliated past the middle in the female, the apical spines short in both sexes, although a little longer in the male, finely and regularly punctured, and with no supra- marginal markin os. : Length, 9 : width, 2E-gmme Natal (Maritzbure). C. LEPIDA. Bohem. Insect. Cafir. 1, p. 23. Brassy-green, shining, the elytra with a bright golden, greenish tinge, underside and legs bluish-black ; head finely strigose, labrum yellowish, very narrowly edged with black in both sexes ; prothorax short, nearly cylindrical, impressed transversely in front and behind, 1892. ] of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 89 slightly grooved in the centre and finely plicated ; elytra elongated, narrow, slightly ampliated past the middle in the female, acuminated behind with the outer margin ending apically in a short spine, and the suture also produced in two sharp spines, longer in the male; they are covered with closely set, deep, punctures which make them look finely shagreened, and have on each side, above the outer margin, an uninterrupted white band, beginning at a little distance from the base; the male has also a small humeral spot of the same colour, always wanting in the female. ‘Length, 9-10 ; width, 23-3" This is the only Cosmema known to me, in which the outer margin (as well as the suture) is produced bekind in an acute spine. Transvaal (Potchefstroom). ‘CO. MARGINELLA. Bohem. Insect, Caffr. 1, p. 22. _C, ALBICINCTELLA, Bates. Cistula. Entomolog. 1882, p. 334. C. ALBOCLAVATA, Dokht. Rev. Mens. d’Ent. p. 4. Elongated, brassy, moderately shining on the upper part, underside and legs bright bluish-black ; head strigose, labrum broadly infuscated at the base and apex in both sexes, and sometimes entirely black in the female ; prothorax short, sub-cylindrical, deeply impressed in front and behind, slightly grooved in the centre, the sides of the disk very little raised ; elytra elongated, nearly parallel in the male, slightly ampliated past the middle in the female, convex, closely covered with narrow punctures, with the suture ending in two long, sharp spines, shorter in the female; they have on each side, above the outer margin an uninterrupted, narrow, yellowish-white band, reaching from base to apex. Length, 11-13; width, 3-43™™ Transvaal (Potchefstroom, Boksburg.) In my examples, the labrum of the female, although more infuscated on the sides than the male’s, is not black in the centre.! 'It is the @. albicinctella of Bates. 90 M. L. Peéringueys Descriptive Catalogue [Nov. 80, C. CONNEXA. new species. Size and shape of marginella ; labrum of the male yellow narrowly edged with black, that of the female very broadly infuscated at the apex ; elytra elongated, nearly parallel in the male, ampliated past the middle in the female, deeply and broadly punctured with the punctures confluent, these punctures much more narrow behind, the suture ending in two long spines, longer in the male, shining bronze, with a broad, dorsal green band, and a narrow white supra-marginal band reaching from the shoulder to the apex ; this white line is very narrow from the shoulder to about the middle, and nearly twice as broad from the median to the apical part, underside and legs bluish-black. Length, 12-13 ; width, 3-4"-™ Very closely allied to marginella, differs mostly by the punctuation of the elytra, which is much broader and deeper, and intermediate between that of marginella and lateralis, the bronze sheen of the prothorax and elytra is also brighter, and the supra-marginal white band is algo broader in the posterior part ; from lateralis it differs in the punctuation of the elytra not being so broad, and in the shape of the elytra of the female, which are much less ampliated in the middle. Natal (Frere). QC. LATERALIS. Bohem. Ofvers, Vet. Ac. Forhand. 1860, p. 6.° Brassy, with a golden tinge, shining on the upper part, underside bright cyaneous-black ; head strigose, labrum (female) black with the outer sides narrowly yellowish ; prothorax sub-cylindrical, finely plicated, not deeply impressed transversely im front and behind, slightly grooved in the centre, with the disccidal part very little raised on each side; elytra broadly pitted from the base to about the median part, the punctures narrower and less deep from the middle to the apex, with a series of deeper punctures with a golden tinge on each side ; they are convex, much ampliated (female) past the middle, and have on each side, above the outer margin, a yellowish-white band 1892. | of the Coleoptera of South Africa. on increasing in width from the middle towards the apex, and with a very slight inward spur about the third part of the length. Length, 104 ; width, 5" Allied to C. marginella, but larger ; the punctuation of the elytra is broader and deeper, and the lateral white band is much broader. This species, which I have seen in De Chaudoir’s collection, under the manuscript name of C. aspera, is evidently a form of transition between marginella and coarctata. Bechuanaland, Lake N’Gami (teste Boheman), Cape Colony (Kimberley). C. coARcTATA. Dej. Spec. IT, p. 435. Iconogr. 1, p: 37, t. 1, f. 5. - Brassy, shining on the upper part, underside bright bluishsblack, with the antenne and tibie rufescent: head strigose, labrum yellow and very narrowly edged with black in both sexes; prothorax finely plicated, sub-cylindrical with the sides of the disk very little raised ; elytra finely shagreened, convex, with the suture produced in two sharp spines, moderately long in the male, short in the female ; they have on each side, above the outer margin a yellowish band reaching from the shoulder to the apex and emitting a short spur, directed inwardly, at about two-thirds of the length of the elytra; this marginal band from the spur to the apex is broader in the female. Length, 12-13 ; width, 34-44™™: Cape Colony (Port Elizabeth, Bathurst, Graham’s Town, Sunday River). Ca virrars, Bey. Spec; Vi, Px 269: Brassy shining on the upper part, underside and legs bright bluish- black ; head strigose, labrum narrowly edged with black in the o2 M. L. Peéringuey’s Descriptive Catalogue [Nov. 30, anterior part (female); prothorax finely plicated, with the sides of the disk slightly raised ; elytra convex, ampliated past the middle, obtusely spinose at the apex, and finely shagreened ; they have on each side, above the onter margin a broad yellowish band running from the base to past the middle where it is produced into a short, obtuse, inward spur, and continues from there to the apex, but nearer to the outer margin than from the base to past the middle. Length, 13; width, 43™-™ It is closely allied to C. coarctata, but the lateral band is broader and not straight as in that species. Cape Colony (exact locality unknown). ©. HAMATA, new species. Brassy, shining on the upper part, underside bright bluish-black , head strigose, labrum yellow, narrowly edged with black in both sexes i prothorax finely plicated, sub-cylindrical with the sides of the disk very little raised ; elytra finely shagreened, convex, the suture ending in two sharp spines, long in the male, very short in the female ; they have on each side, above the outer margin, a yellowish-white band reaching from the base to past the middle where it is produced in a diagonal inward spur, and a second one, disconnected with the first, and nearer to the outer margin, beginning a little below the diagonal spur and reaching the apex. Length, 12-13; width, 3.4mm. Cape Colony (Sunday River). OC. FURCATA. Bohem. Insect. Caffr. I., p. 21, t. 1, f.A, 1-6. C, TRANSVAALENSIS. Dokht. Rev, mens, d‘Ent, p. 6. Brassy, very shining on the upper part, underside bright cyaneous, legs with the tibiee reddish ; head strigose, labrum yellow, infuscated at the base and narrowly edged with black at the apex in both sexes ; -1892.] of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 93 prothorax sub-cylindrical with the sides of the disk slightly raised, finely plicated transversely ; elytra elongated nearly parallel in the male, the suture with two long spines, those of the female much ampliated past the middle, with the sutural spines sharp and moderately long, very closely and equally punctured; they have on each side, above the outer margin, a broad, yellowish-white band, broader towards the apex than near the base where it begins and sends at about the third part of the length of the elytra a long, diagonal spur directed towards the suture, which it does not reach. Length, 15-16 ; Widthse4-52°2: A very distinct species. | Transvaal (Potchefstroom) ; Orange Free State (Parys). C. RAMIGERA. new spec. Bronze, shining on the upper part, underside bright cyaneous, legs metallic blue, with a greenish sheen, head strigose, labrum pale-yellow, very narrowly edged with black in front, and with a triangular black patch at the apex, prothorax conspicuously plicated transversely ; elytra elongated, slightly ampliated past the middle, the suture with two long acute spines hardly diverging (male), very broadly punctured, with a dorsal row of deeper, shining foveee on each side and a very broad supra-marginal yellow band straight from the shoulder to about the middle and directed from there diagonally on the disk, and a narrower one nearer to the outer margin, beginning below the slanting part of the sapra-humeral one and reaching the apex. Length, 16 ; width, 44"™: Allied to furcata in the same manner as hamata is allied to coarctuta ; it is, however, a little longer than furcata, the plication of the prothorax is much more pronounced, the sutural spines of the male, (I have not seen any female example), do not diverge so much, and the lateral margin is disconnected behind. This species, collected by De Wylder in Damaraland, was kindly lent me for description by Professor C. Aurivilius of the Stockholm Museum. I believe I have also seen a o4 M, L. Peéringuey’s Descriptive Catalogue [Nov. 30, male example in Chaudoir’s collection under the name ramigera, Kraatz, and also from N’Gami or Damaraland. 10, SIMPLEX. Bates. Cistul. Entomol. 1882, p. 333. Black on the upper part, with the sides dark-blue, and marginated with bronze; head striguse, labrum (female) black with a whitish median spot ; prothorax cylindrical, plicated transversely, elytra elon- gated, ovate, with the suture strongly spinose at the apex, closely but not deeply punctured, and with a very narrow white band near the apex ; legs dark-blue. Length, 16™™ The elytra are less densely punctured, narrower and more attenuated anteriorly than in C. citreoguttata (Bates). Mozambique. 20. GRANULATA. Dokht. Mater. p. Cicindel. 1883, p. 5. Rev, mens, d’Ent. © Brassy black on the upper part, black underneath, shining; labrum brownish with a black patch at the base ; prothorax twice as long as wide, sub-cylindrical, with the median groove and the transverse plication nearly obsolete; elytra ovate, ampliated past the middle, narrowed behind, the suture produced in a fine and very acute spine, strongly eranulated, the granulation less pronounced behind, suture granulated, slightly raised, very distinct, and on each side of the elytra a small, narrcw, elongated supra apical pale-yellow marginal patch. Length, 12-13; width, 3-33"™ ? Caffraria. 1&* These two species are unknown to me. ADDENDA AND CORRIGENDA. Gen. CICINDELA. C. gucunda, mihi., p. 48, must be considered as identical with C. vicina, Dej., the Ovampoland examples of which are a little more robust in general facies than those from Senegal. Herr W. Horn has described in the Deutsche Entom. Zeit., for 1889, two new Cicindeli, one Dromica, and one Cosmema from South- Africa. _ Itisperhaps to be regretted that these four descriptions have been made from one example only, a proceeding which alone the publication of a Monograph can justify. The species of Cicindela, to which the two insects described by Herr Horn are referred as being most closely allied, i.e. marginella, varies so much in the same locality that I would have had no difficulty in _ selecting 30 examples slightly differing from one another. C. LAPHYRICORNIS, Horn. Deuts, Ent. Zeit., 1892, p, 84. Similar to marginella, Dej. ; differs in the shape of the last joints of the antenne which are ampliated, the antenne are shorter. . Length, 114™-™ Habit. Caffr. Zululand. “This species is felated most closely to marginella. Head and prothorax dull metallic, and a little more finely sculptured; labrum straight at the apex; elytra somewhat broader and more ampliated from the median part towards the apex; the markings consist of a broad margin without any rami or dorsal macula, while such markings are to be found in the typical marginella of Dejean which I have examined, but the humeral and also the median rami are represented 96 M, L. Péringuey’s Descriptive Catalogue [Nov. 30, in the present species by asmall, black-edged tooth, there is also along the suture a hardly defined series of green punctures.” Will very likely prove to be identical with C. snanis, Wallengr. C. SECURICORNIS. Horn. ‘loc, cit. p. 85, Similar to C. marginella, Dej, ; the antennee are shorter and the last joints more ampliated ; more similar still to C. laphyriornis, but the elytra are narrower, more rounded at the apex, and marked differently. Length, 92°"; Cap. Bon. Sp: “ Although the shape of the antennee of this species, a male, is like that ° of laphyricornis, it differs much from it, the labrum is more produced apically, the head and thorax are as in C. marginella, but more shining ; the wing-covers are narrower than in daphyricornis, even narrower than in marginella, the markings consist of’ a narrow margin emitting a tolerably long humeral ramus, the median ramus begins somewhat nearer the base than in marginella, and slants further downwards, and the hind lunule is produced only as a small rounded protuberance.” DROMICA. Dr. 0. A. Dohrn has described in the Stett. Ent. Zeit. for 1891, p. 384, anew Dronuca, which judging from the description will probably be found very closely allied, if not identical with D. albivittis, Chd. D. Brertinz, Dohrn. Stett. Ent, Zeit., 1891, p. 384. “Female: Bronze on the upper part, violaceous-black underneath, antennee brown with the basal joints brassy-green, labrum testa- ceous, mandibles very acute, very black, palpi — testaceous, blackish at the tip, eyes brown, moderately prominent ; prothorax sub- 1892. ] of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 97 elongated, unequally pilose ; elytra more than twice as Jong as the prothorax, dehiscent behind, brassy, shining, marginated with red and having four longitudinal, interrupted black coste ; abdomen and legs violaceous-black.” Length, 13"°™ Transvaal. D. QUINQUE-COSTATA. Horn. Deuts. Entom, Zeit., 1892, p. 67. Allied to D. clathrata, Klug., but the intermediate joints of the elytra are much less compressed, the thorax is more smooth, and the elytra not so roughly punctured. Length, 1 Zam Natal. *““This species is closely allied. to D. clathrata, the antenne are not much longer or thicker than in D. carinulata, etc. ; the head is smaller than in clathrata, the prothorax more smooth on the upper part, the sculpture of the elytra is finer, particularly behind, where the coste disappear, and the background is densely and finely punctured, the fine costee are sharper, the sutural spines are smaller, the shape of the elytra is about the same, but a little broader and more depressed behind, the colouring is the same, fue there is an oblong white patch on each side of the posterior margin.” COSMEMA. C. INTERMEDIA. Horn. Deut. Ent. Zeit., 1892, p. 68. Pelongs to the group of C. elegantula and C. cordicollis, but the sculpture of the elytra is less rugose, very fine behind, and the shape of the prothorax is less cordiform. Length, 112™:™ Caffraria. §8 we Ds Péringuey’s Descriptive Catalogue [Nov. 30, “¢ Labrum shining, infuscated in the centre and on the sides, head much broader, prothorax only slightly broader than in @. elegantula, the longitudinal plications of the first part, and the transverse ones of the second, more distinctly separated, the sculpture is also more distinct, the impressions in the upper part are also deeper ; the punctures on the elytra are smaller from the median part of the elytra towards the apex, the outer margins and legs are as in elegantula, the upper part of the disk being a little duller and darker, there is no sub-humeral spot, the median supra-marginal one is smaller and rounder, and the four basal joints of the antenne are brown, the second, third and fourth brighter at the tip.” The author goes on to compare this species with C. cordicollis, which he apparently knows from description only, always a dangerous proceeding. “ 1 ‘. 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