THF. CA-RABIDAt} OF SALISBURY 53 



As many of our local species have not been recorded 

 from Khodesia, and among them are several very great 

 rarities, a complete list of those that occur at Salis- 

 bury may be useful. 



Tribe Omophronmi. 



The only member of this Tribe at Salisbury is the 

 common and widely distributed Omophrou sutnralis, 

 which is found here in numbers in sandy river-beds close 

 to the water's edge. In Salisbury specimens the pro- 

 thoracic anterior yellow margin is very narrow, and the 

 sutural dark metallic green (rarely, light chocolate 

 brown,) band of the elytra varies considerably in width 

 and shape. 



Tribe C a rah mi. 



Two species — Calosoma senegalcnse and C. planwolle 

 — both taken at light, the former rarely, the latter in 

 some numbers. C. senegnle/nse appears to have a wide 

 range in S. Africa. I have specimens from Durban, 

 Beira and Salisbury, and Peringuey records it from 

 Damaraland. In Salisbury examples the shining brassy 

 spots on the elytra are sometimes obsolete. One of my 

 local specimens has a length of 30 mm. 



C. planicolle appears to be distributed all over S. 

 Rhodesia. I have taken it at Umtali, Salisbury, Gwelo, 

 Umvuma and at the Empandeni Mission twenty miles 

 south of Plumtree. The length of my specimens varies 

 from 28 to 34 mm. On the Zanzibar mainland this species 

 appears to be common, and examples that I have seen 

 from there are distinguished by their large size, and by 

 the intervals and outer margin of the elytra being dark 

 metallic blue-green. 



Tribe Lachnophorini. 



Represented at Salisbury by the pretty Lasiocera 

 egregia^ Per., which was discovered here many years ago 

 by Dr. Guy Marshall and appears to be exceedingly 

 scarce. 



