THE TRANSACTIONS 



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THIRD CONTRIBUTION TO THE SOUTH AFRICAN 

 COLEOPTEROUS FAUNA. By L. Pe'ringuey, F.Z.S. 

 F.E.S., London, France, &c. 



[Read 1892, March 30.] 



On Beetles collected in Tropical South-Western Afrtgjl 



by Mr. A. W. Eriksson. 



While travelling in Northern Ovampoland, Mr. A. W. Eriksson has 

 devoted a great part of his time to collecting birds and insects, and he 

 has on two occasions presented part of his valuable entomological' 

 collections to the South African Museum, the Curator of which, 

 Mr. R. Trimen, has lately made known the list of the butterflies : 

 Proc. Zool. Soc, 1891, p. 59. 



The Coleoptera collected by Mr. Eriksson are extremely interesting,, 

 inasmuch that they are all of a true South-African type, identical i» 

 most cases with those of the Zambeze-Mozambique fauna, but totally 

 different, except in very few instances, from those of the pure Cap^ 

 Colony fauna, and certainly greatly differentiated from that of Central 

 Angola, as known by the descriptions of Von Harold and others. 



The material at my disposal, although large, is not sufficiently com- 

 plete to give a true idea of the coleopterous fauna of that part of the- 

 country, but, with the exception of very few Senegal and West 

 African forms, it may be said to be the same, although varying^ 

 slightly, as the one met with from the North of Quilimane to Mossa- 

 medes, and so far as we now know, I am satisfied that on the 16° of 

 latitude, is the true limit of the South- African Coleopterous fauna. 



The abundance of Graphipterus is a very noticeable feature of the* 

 Carabidfe, which coupled with that of Polyhirma and Anthia, imply at 



