XVII. Description of new Cicindelidee from Mashunaland. 
By Louis Pirinevey, F.E.S. 
[Read March 28th, 1894.] 
In my ‘Catalogue of the South African Cicindelidee” 
(Trans. South Afric. Phil. Soc. vii, 1893), I expressed, 
as my opinion, that this catalogue could not be regarded 
as final, as Gazaland and Ovampoland would, in all 
probability, yield new forms of the wingless genera, 
Myrmecoptera, Dromica, and Cosmena; but I was not 
prepared to receive, a few months later, no less than five 
Myrmecoptera and one Cosmema, hitherto undescribed, 
and all found in one locality of the newly-opened-up 
northern territories of South Africa, which will be known 
hereafter as Zambezia. 
All these species were captured round Salisbury at 
the beginning of the rainy season, by my esteemed cor- 
respondent, G. A. K. Marshall, Hsq., who has gone lately 
to reside in Mashunaland. Matabeleland and Mashunaland 
would seem to be the home of Myrmecoptera, for besides 
the five new species here described, Mr. Marshall has 
also captured the hitherto extremely rare M. polyhir- 
moides, Bates, and M. bilunata, Dohrn. Mr. F. HW. 
Selous, while recruiting at Buluwayo from the effects of 
a wound received in the Matabele war, captured there 
the equally rare M. mauchi, Bates, and M. limpopoiana, 
Pér. These two species were very abundant, [ am in- 
formed by Mr. Selous, who, however, captured only one 
example of each species, as he had no means of storing 
them. Mr. Marshall also writes that M. ivicta and 
some of the other species were fairly common. I have 
now recorded twelve species of Myrmecoptera from 
Matabeleland and Mashunaland, and two Cosmema. 
The other Cicindelide captured near Salisbury by Mr. 
Marshall were Megacepvhala regalis,* Cicindela clathrata, 
* Occurs also near Buluwayo. 
TRANS. ENT. SOC, LOND. 1894.—part 111. (SEPT.) 
