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the Bailundo and Andulo countries. This is part of the alpine region 

 of Africa, and is to be classed with Abyssinia, Ruenzori and the Nyassa- 

 Tanganyika highlands. The soils are about as in the middle region and 

 the country is, geologically speaking, very old, being entirely under- 

 laid with archaean metamorphic rocks. The grass is comparatively 

 short and thickly set together, quite covering the ground. The bulk 

 of the trees are Leguminosae and are as a rule not large, forming what 

 is known as "bush." One of the Rosaceae (Paranarium mohola) is 

 the largest and most striking tree. Many IMalvacese and Ampelidae 

 add to the smaller aspects of the landscape. The cUmate is moist and 

 cool and is essentially subtropical and not tropical. The species found 

 in the center of this last region are Cicindela suturalis Putz., C. Mechowi 

 Qued., Ophryodera rufomarginata Boh., and Mantichora congoensis" 

 P6r. At the western border of this region, almost at a point where it 

 joins the second region (vide supra) were taken several other species, 

 namely: Cicindela angusticollis Boh., C. uncivittata Qued., C.infuscata 

 Qued., C. Putzeysi W. Horn, C. fiavipes Putz., C. villosa Putz. and 

 Cosmema auropunctata Qued. 



Following is a list of all recorded species^ from Angola, including 

 our own material, much of which is here reported for the first time, 

 together with our notes on the habits of the beetles and the description 

 of a new species. 



CICINDELIN.E. 



CICINDELINI. 



Odontochilina. 



1. Odontochila erythropyga Putz., Jorn. Sci. Lisb., ]880, p. 24. 



= variventris Qued., Berl. Ent. Zeitschr., 1883, p. 245. 

 Without exact locality (Welwitsch);..Malange (Mechow);..Ekekete 

 Mountain, two hours south of Ekuiva River, November, 1907 (Wellman) . 

 The specimens were taken in thin grass near a large swarm of Meloid 

 beetles {Lytta amethystina) which at some distance they distinctly re- 

 sembled. 



Oicindelina. 



2. Cicindela aulioa Dej., Spec. V, 1831, p. 250. 



Without exact locality (Welwitsch). An intermediate form between 

 the typical aulica and the subsp. polysita Guer. occurs in Loanda. 



3. Cicindela aspemla Duf.. Ann. Sc. Phys., VIII, 1821, p. 359, pi. 130, f. 1. 



Kuango (Mechow). 



^ All the material collected by Wellman is in W. Horn's collection, where also 

 all the other species are represented, except Cicindela leucopicta Qued. 



