1896.] of the ColeojJtera of South Africa. 107 



securiform in the male, in the female they are almost normal, 

 although slightly triangular. 



Hah. Cape Colony (Eiversdale, Fraserburg). 



CiCINDELA LAPHYEICOENIS, Horn, 



Catal., p. 95. 



This species is most closely allied to C. marginclla var. inanis, 

 Wallengr, but the elytra are not quite so parallel even in the male, 

 and the short spurs emitted laterally by the margin are broader, and 

 very distinct in all the specimens I have seen ; the two apical joints 

 of the antennae of the male are thickened, and the penultimate one 

 triangular, whereas in the male of inanis they have the normal shape, 

 but those of the female of both species are identical. In Dr. Horn's 

 type (a male) the dilatation of the two ultimate joints of the antennae 

 is more marked than in the nine examples I have seen. 



The habitat of var. inanis as given in the Catalogue must be 

 modified, the specimens from Natal (D' Urban) and Barberton in the 

 Transvaal being 0. laphyricornis. 



Section J. 



Elytra elongate, each elytron with a moderately hroad margin 

 emitting three short rami, and with three round dots close to 

 the suture, the posterior one nearly connected with the median 

 ramus Masliuna. 



Elytra elongate, each elytron with a broad marginal band 

 bluntly tridentate, a posterior discoidal spot and a dorsal longi- 

 tudinal series of broad punctures; basal joint of the labial palpi 

 miuch swollen limhigera. 



CiCINDELA MaSHUNA, P&\, 



Trans. Entom. Soc. Lond., 1894, p. 448. 



Obscure bronze on the upper part, with the under side of the 

 prothorax glowing-red, and the abdomen dark blue ; legs glowing- 

 red with the tarsi green ; labrum elongate, convex, tridentate at the 

 apex, white, and with two setigerous punctures on each side, one 

 near the median tooth, the other near the outer angle; head aciculate, 

 with a few white decumbent hairs ; prothorax short, quadrate, 

 rugose, covered with white decumbent hairs ; elytra elongate, sub- 

 parallel, finely granulose, and having on each side a moderately 

 broad pale-yellow marginal band, sending out three short, blunt 

 rami, and also three round spots of the same colour on each side of 

 the suture, the posterior one of which is nearly connected with the 

 apex of the median marginal ramus, but the median one is not at all 

 connected with the humeral ramus, and the basal one is placed far 



