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7. — Seventh Contribution to the South African Coleo'pterous Fauna.- 

 By L. Peringuey, Directors' 



DESCRIPTION OF NEW SPECIES OF CODEOPTERA IN THE COLLECTION 

 OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN MUSEUM. (Plates V. and VI.) 



Family CICINDELIDuiE. 



Gen. DEOMICA (COSMEMA), Dej. 

 Dromica (Cosmema) convexicollis, n. sp. 



<? : Supra seneo-nigra lateribus prothoracis, elytrorum subtusque 

 seneo-caeruleis ; femoribus viridibus, tibiis antennarumque articulis 

 basalibus quatuor sub-rufescentibus, labro flavescente, late nigro 

 marginato, palpis flavis, articulo ultimo apice anguste infuscato ; 

 capite lato, inter oculos valde longitudinaliter plicato ; prothorace 

 latitudine longiore, antice baud sensim postice magis strangulato, 

 disco praesertim in partem posticam valde elevato convexo, fere sub- 

 gibboso, transversim strigillato ; elytris elongatis, pone humeros ad 

 medium inflexis, deinde parum incrassatis, ad apieem acuminatis 

 ibidem spina valida acuta valde divergente utrinque munitis, supra 

 convexis sutura acuta, punctis profundis ad latera obliteratis a basi 

 usque ad apieem aequalibus, interstitio angusto separatis obsitis, in 

 callo bumerali macula parva rotunda, pone medium altera ovata supra 

 marginal! et prope apieem vitta maculiformi flavo albidis utrinque 

 ornatis. 



This species is very closely allied to D. cordicollis, Chaud., which 

 I erroneously stated to be synonymous with D. gruti, Chd.,t and 



* The first four Contributions were published in the Transactions of the South 

 African Philosophical Society, 1885-1892 ; the fifth and sixth in the Annals of the 

 South African Museum, vol. i., p. 240, and vol. iii., p. 167. 



t Descriptive Catal. S. Afr. Coleoptera, Cicindelidse, p. 86, Trans. S. Afr. Phil. 

 -Soc, vol vii., 1892. 



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