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largest of tlie four, M. biplagiatus, Boh., is sometimes: 

 found hibernating under bark or stones, but is more often 

 taken at light in summer. Salisbury specimens vary in 

 length from 13 to 16 mm., and one example that- 1 

 captured at light last February has the head, prothorax^ 

 legs and tlie two patches on the elytra of an unusually 

 light colour. Our three other local species appear to be 

 very rare and I have only taken a single example of each, 

 M. hyhridns at light in February, M. dorsalis and an 

 interesting variety of M. varians at grass roots in Decem- 

 ber. This last species has been found at Umtali, 

 together with M. vidnatus, M. longicollis and M. spectan- 

 diis. The last two I have not yet seen. 



Meladroma luguhris is not uncommon in the Plumtree 

 district, and I have an example from near Uinvuma and 

 have seen a number of specimens that were taken at Hart- 

 ley. It is a rare species at Salisbury, and I have only 

 seen one locally taken specimen. 



Triaenogcnius vicinus and T. corpulent ns are both 

 common near Plumtree, w^here I have often found them 

 running about on sandy paths at dusk. The latter has 

 not, as far as I know, been recorded at Salisbury and 

 the former is very rare here. 



Tptbe Brachinini. 



The Brachinides are fairly well represented here by 14 

 species — two Pheropsophus, six Brachinus, one Styphro- 

 merus, one Mastax and four Crepidogaster. Of 

 Pheropsophus we have P. hohcmani var., fraud iger and P. 

 mashunns, both, the latter especially, rare in this neigh- 

 bourhood. 



Our Brachini are.— ^. diffusus, B. caffcr^ B. soUdus, B. 

 mactiis, B. placidus, and an ai)parently undescribed 

 species which is not uncommon at light. Of B. mactus I 

 have only taken one example, in a marsh, and it differs 

 from typical specimens in the absence of the sub-basal 

 patch on the elytra and the reduction to a small dot of 



