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 INSECTA. 



COLEOPTERA. 

 GEODEPHAGA. 



SOUTH AFRICA is well represented by this Tribe of Coleoptera, 

 and the Transvaal is no exception to the rule. The genus 

 Manticora, so restricted to this region, I only found in one 

 species around Pretoria. It is very local, appears shortly after 

 the first rains, and is very numerous indeed on the restricted 

 areas it frequents, where it actively forages about the bare veld. 

 It is, however, found only for a few weeks, at least such was 

 my experience. Dromica is a scarce genus, and the only 

 species met with, D. gigantea, was seen in solitary examples 

 at scattered intervals during the wet season. Pulyhirma mad- 

 lent a is very common on the paths and roadways of the open 

 veld j but Cypholoba ranzanii is a much rarer species, and I 

 only took it in Zoutpansberg. The two most common species 

 of the genus Anthia are A. thoracica and A. maxillosa, but 

 there are nothing like the number of species in the Transvaal 

 as can be found in other parts of Southern Africa. Atracto- 

 notus formicarius is found under stones on the hardest and 

 driest part of the veld, whilst under stones in damp places I 

 found the rare Callistomimus sexpustulatus, Crepidogaster bima- 

 culatus, and Chlanius vitticollis. But the streams in the 

 summer are so violent, and the stones on the banks so fre- 

 quently overturned and washed from their places, that it is 

 very difficult to find the homes of these small Carabidre. 



For the identification of many of the species of Carabida3 I 

 am indebted to that high authority Mr. H. W. Bates. 



Fam. CICINDELID.E. 



Manticora tuberculata, De Geer. Pretoria. 



Dromica gigantea, Breme. Pretoria. 



