1892.] of the ColeojpUri of South Africa. 5 



I have seen examples from Mozambique, and also one (British 

 Museum) from Lake Nyassa. 



I am not aware of any specimens having been captured on the 

 Zanzibar mainland, although the entomological fauna of that part of 

 Africa is nov pretty well known, so far as the large-sized beetles arfe 

 concerned. 



Thus the limit of the range in the Eastern part of Africa would 

 seem to be about the tenth degree of latitude South, while in the 

 Western side one species {M. congoensis, Pering.) has been captured 

 on the Congo Eiver, «.e., about four degrees more north than on the 

 eastern side. This Congo species is small, about the size of tulerculata , 

 while the South African species are larger in the northern parts. 



However dissimilar the facies of a full-grown Mantichora is to that 

 of a Cicindelay the larval state is almost identical. 



Herr H. J. Kolbe has described (Berl. Entom. Zeit. 1885 p. 48) 

 what he considered to be the larva of Mantichora, from an incomplete 

 example collected at Barmen, a mission station in Damaraland. 



Through the kindness of Mr. E. G.Alston, of Van W^'k's Yley, 

 Cape Colony, I am able to give the description of what is undoubtedly 

 the larva of Mantichora tiiberculata, Megacephala not having been met 

 with in that locality : — 



Body of thirteen segments, head plane, horny with a trapeziform? 

 distinct labrum denticulated at the tip, set with regularly-disposed, 

 short, setigerous tubercles, and a few rigid long bristles, the hind 

 margin bristly, pale yellow, with the labrum infuscated, a transverse 

 brown depressed line starting on each side from the point of insertion 

 of the antennae, and culminating in a brown fossa ; two longitudinal 

 brown lines in the centre, above the labrum, and a larger, also brown, 

 fossa on each side of the base. Width of head, 7"*"'* ; mandibles long, 

 arcuated above the labrum, and with a long, stout inner tooth ; under- 

 side very convex, bristly, with a long groove in the centre ; mentum 

 cordiform ; labium quadrangular, bristly, with two median three- 

 jointed, short palpi, and two lateral ones, each of these with a long 

 stout basal joint, longer than the second, which bears two smaller ones, 

 the outer one of which is three- jointed, while the inner one is single ; 

 antennaj quadri-articulated, with the basal articulation very thick ; 



