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4. Cioindela nitidula Dej., Spec I, 1825, p. 120. 



[> /^Without exact locality (Welwitsch) ; Landana, Loango (U. ]\Iore) ; 

 Lobito Bay, April, 1908 (Wellman). Taken on the beach (that part 

 which is kept more or less wet by the tides), and by its coloring the 

 beetle is rendered inconspicuous as it sits on the sand, and is usually 

 noticeable only when flying. 



5. Cioindela cabinda Bat., Ci.st. Ent. II, 1878, p. 331. 



Landana, Loango (U. More); Lobito Bay, April, 1908 (Wellman). 

 Habits exactly like C. nitidula, with which it was found in company. 



6. Cioindela brevioollis clathrata^ Dej., Spec I, 1825, p. 115. 



Mossamedes. 



brevicollis neglecta* Dej., Spec. I, 1S25, p. 114. 

 Malange (Mechow); mthout exact locality (Wel-uitsch). There 

 occurs near Mossamedes an intermediate form between this last and the 

 var. damara Per. 



brevicollis discoidalis Dej., Spec. I, 1825, p. 114. 

 Kuango. 



brevicollis intermedia Ivlug, Monatschr. Berl. Acad., 1853, p. 245. 

 Quanza ( Homey er), Loanda. 



7. Cioindela uncivittata^ Qued., Berl. Ent. Zeitschr., 1S83, p. 242. 



Malange (Mechow), -..north bank of Ekuiva River, November, 1907 

 (Wehman). Found on the path, dark soil. 



exigica^ Kolbe, Ent. Nachr., 1885, p. 50. 

 South bank of Ekuiva River, November, 1907 (Wellman), clayey 

 soil. 



8. Cioindela obtusidentata Putz., Jorn. Sci. Lisb., 1880, p. 22. 



Bocagei Chd. in litt., Cat. Coll. Cic, p. 28. 

 Without exact locality (Welwitsch). 



9. Cioindela wellmani W. Horn, Deutsch. Ent. Zeitschr., 1907, p. 421. 



Chiyaka, November, 1906, and November, 1908 (Wellman). In 

 paths or on other bare places, clayey soil, on which the coloring of the 

 beetle makes it hard to see. Very ant-like in its movements. 



^ Putzeys gave to this subspecies (and some specimens of the following) the 

 wrong name Cioindela senegalensis, cf. Jorn. Sci. Lisb., 1880, p. 21. 



* Putzeys thought this to be Cioindela pudica Boh., cf. Jorn. Sci. Lisb., I.e. 

 ^ This is the blackish form. 



• This is the brownish form. 



