1896.] of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 103 



I have given Mr. Waterhouse's description of this very interesting 

 genus, which, recorded from Lake Nyassa and Mpwapwa in Eastern 

 Africa, has been met with in Zambezia, fifteen miles from Sahsbury, 

 near the Hangani Eiver. I have not had the specimens sent yet for 

 identification, but the clear and careful description sent by my corre- 

 spondent leaves no doubt about the identity of both genus and 

 species. 



Teibe CICINDELIDES. 



Gen. BOSTEICOPHOEUS. 

 bostricophoeus lleugmei. 



Shape, size, and colour of B. Bianconi ; iabrum, antennae, head and 

 prothorax similar ; elytra with a basal, comma-shaped bright yellow 

 patch on each side of the scutellum, and a sutural band connected at 

 the base with the juxta-scutellary one and reaching to one-third of the 

 length; in the median part, and close to the suture, a small, round dot, 

 and in the posterior part a moderately broad marginal band reaching 

 from the suture to the outer margin. Length 15 mm.; width 5^ mm. 



This species is easily distinguished from B. Bianconi by the apical 

 marginal yellow band of the elytra, which is totally absent in 

 Bianconi; the median, or rather slightly post-median dot, is identical, 

 but the two basal comma-shaped spots have coalesced at the base, 

 and the juxta-sutural has become a long band reaching a little short 

 of the median part ; the antennae are similarly compressed, the fifth 

 and sixth joints dilated in the same manner, and the fascicle of hairs 

 under the fourth joint in the male is identical with that of Bianconi. 



Hah. Captured at Mandlakas, on the Lower Limpopo (Mozam- 

 bique), by Dr. Lieugme. 



BOSTEICOPHOKUS EGREGIUS. 



Very dark bronze on the upper part ; under side and legs violaceous- 

 blue ; palpi yellow, with the apical joint green ; labrum convex, 

 yellow, with three setigerous punctures ; head strigose, with a few 

 decumbent hairs ; antennae with the four basal joints filiform, the 

 others slightly compressed and subfoliate, the fourth one, with two 

 setae underneath ; prothorax cylindrical, shagreened, impressed 

 transversely at base and apex, grooved in the centre, and with a few 

 scattered white hairs ; elytra parallel, somewhat convex, spinose at 

 the apex of the suture, opaque with irregular series of punctures, 

 and with the following yellow markings on each side : a yellow infra 

 humeral spot, a comma-shaped one under the scutellum, a post- 

 median sinuated discoidal patch, an apical supra-marginal band, and 

 two minute dots on the disk at equal distance from the base and the 

 post-median discoidal patch. Length 13 mm. ; width 4 mm. 



Hah. Zambezia (Salisbury, Buluwayo). 



