Species 0/ Carabida? /rom South Africa, 45 



(liU'LTentiation of tlio protlioracio contours l)ctwecii th(; 

 sexes, which in trapezicuUis are exactly similar. 



The following are dimensions of a female of obliquatus 

 and a female of trapeziculUs for comparison : — 



obliquatus: length VZ\ ram.; width at base of protliorax 

 4^ mm. ; width of elytra 5| mm. ; length 7| mm. 



trajH'zicoUis* : length lOJ mm.; width at base of pro- 

 th<jrax 3^ mm. : width of elytra 3^ mm. 



Described from four examples — a pair from Malvern, 

 dated October 1897 and September 18U9 respectively, and 

 another pair from Somkeli, dated December 1907. The 

 only difl'erences in these four specimens is that the Zululand 

 pair arc a little more deeply punctated about heads, pro- 

 thoraces, and beneath. 



Hub. ^Malvern, Natal ; Somkeli, Zululand. 



C A L L I s T I N I. 



Under the designation Callistomimus cuffer, Boh. {vide 

 page 525, vol. vii. Trans. S. Afr. Phil. Soc), Dr. Pcringuey 

 describes a species (evidently hitherto unrecorded), which 

 ditiers widely from Boheman's description of his insect 

 under that name {yidb page 128, Insecta Call'rariie). Periu- 

 guey's description of this species, for which I propose the 

 name diversus, shows it to be much nearer akin to sex- 

 pustulatus, Boh., than to the species to which he has assigned 

 it. The localities given for this species by its author are 

 Estcourt, Natal, and Salisbury, llhodesia. I have two 

 examples (male and female) from Estcourt which agree 

 well, allowing for some omissions, with Peringuey^s (not 

 Bohemau's) description of C. caffer, and I have little doubt 

 that these are the species referred to by him. From 

 Plumtree, Rhodesia, I have four examples, which in all 

 details agree faithfully with Bohenian's dcscri])tion of his 

 C. caj/er, and these both in shape and size ditier materially 

 from the Estcourt species. 



Dr. Peringuey, in his description of his C. caffer = 

 C. diversus, milii, omits any reference to the shape of the 

 protliorax, and there are also other discrepancies and 

 omissions. The following is a fuller description of this 

 species : — 



Callistomimus divejsus, sp. n., caffer^ Per. {nee Boh.). 

 Length (male) 5^ mm., (female) 5 mm. ; width 2^-3 mm. 



* A female example from Piet Iletief, Transvaal, loaued to me l)y 

 Dr. Brauns is (iuite as big- as my examples of obUquatiis — length \'2^ uim. ; 

 width at budc of prothorax 4j mm. ; width of elytra 5 mm., len^jth 8 mm. 



