58 M, L. Peringueifs Descriptive Catalogue [Nov. 30 j 



dark-blue or greenish-black underneath ; labrum short, convex, 

 strongly tri-dentate at the apex, yellowish, broadly marginated with 

 black at the apex and narrowly on the sides, and with two deep 

 setigerons punctures on each side of the median tooth and another one on 

 the anterior outer angle ; third and fourth joints of the antennge very 

 bristly ; head closely plicated ; prothorax short, quadrate, roughly 

 ghagreened and with a few, short, decumbent hairs on the outer sides ; 

 elytra slightly broader than the prothorax with sloping humeral angles, 

 very convex, the outer sides nearly straight in the male, slightly 

 ampliated in the female, attenuated behind and singly rounded at the 

 apical suture which is produced in a small sharp spine, broadly but not 

 deeply punctured, and each elytron with two minute round yellowish 

 spots along the suture, one in the anterior part, the other at about the 

 middle, a moderately broad line running diagonally from the humeral 

 angle to a little short of the apex, and a posterior supra-marginal one 

 beginning at the third part of the elytron and reaching the apex ; the 

 dorsal diagonal line emits two very small hooks directed inwards, and 

 also an outer one, the supra-marginal postical line has also a small inner 

 hook near the tip ; underside clothed with dense white hairs 

 laterally. 



Length, 15-16^ ; width, 5-6'"-«'- 



The general facies is more that of Dromica than of Cicindela. This 

 very distinct species has no ally. 



Natal (D'Urban), Mat^beleland, Delagoa Bay (Rikatla), Transvaal 

 (no exact locality.) 



Gen. MEGALOMMA. Westw. 



Annal. & Magaz. Natur. Hist. VIIL, p. 203 (3). 

 Physodeuteea. Lacord. Jansenia. Chaud. 

 >, Catal. Collect. Cicindel., 1865, p. 55. 



Mentum with an acute tooth, nearly as long as the depth of the 

 notch ; labrum long, convex, covering entirely the mandibles, three 

 dentate in the middle, labial palpi shorter than the maxillary, the third 

 one much thickened, the last one very short and truncated at the apex,* 



