new species of CicindelidEe. 331 



Cicindela Monteiroi. 



C catence (F.) affinis. Capite et tliorace cupreis, hoc toto et 

 illo postice albo-incumbenti-piloso ; labro albo, antice producto 

 acute spinoso : elytris fere nigris, margine (basali incluso), 

 vittula subscutellari, fasciaque obliqua mediana vix flexuosa 

 albis : corpore subtus medio cyaneo, genibus (sub oculos) nudis 

 striatis, prothoracis episternis violaceis, nudis, ceteris albo- 

 tomentosis : pedibus viridi-a3neis, femoribus subtus violaceis. 

 Variat elytris guttula alba subsuturali ante medium. Long. 5^ 

 Hn. ^, $. 



Delagoa Bay. Sent liome in some mimbers by the late 

 Mr. J. J. Monteiro. 



Cicindela cahinda. 



C leucopterce (Dej.) forma similis, sed major, et signatura? 

 fere ut in C. nitidida (Dej.) Viridi-senea, fronte, antennarum- 

 que basi plus minusve rufo-auratis, corpore subtus pedibusque 

 Iffite viridi-seneis, elytris punctatis viridi-sericeis, margine, sutura, 

 macula subscutellari, hnea elongata obHqua e lunula humerali, 

 altera ascendenti curvata e lunula apicah, fasciaque mediana 

 valde flexuosa albis. $ Thorace quadrate, elytris versus apicem 

 angustatis. $ Thorace trapezoidali, angulis posticis paulo 

 lobatis ; elytris ante medium rotundato-dilatatis, ibique margine 

 anguste explanatLs, versus apicem valde recte obhque angustatis. 

 Long. 4^ hn. $ , ? . 



Landana (Loango). From Dr. Uhson More ; many examples 

 mixed with C. nitidida (Dej.) 



The curved line in prolongation of the apical hxnule does not 

 (except in rare albino examples) reach the white margin, as it 

 does in C. nitidida, nilotica, and others. 



Cicindela ovas. 



C. cabindce (v. supra) forma utriusque sexus eadem ; differt 

 solum elytrorum signaturis albis latioribus, linea curvata e 

 lunula apicali cum margine connexa. Long. 5 lin. 



Madagascar ; liable to be coufoimded with C. nilotica, from 

 which it differs in the form of the thorax and the elytra, 

 especially in the $ . I have no doubt it is the species indicated 

 ^nder the name of C. pivas in the Cat. Cic. of M. de Chaudoir, 



