4 M, L. Peringuey § Third Contribution [March 30, 



Namaqualand, Damaraland. The elytra are nearly smooth and 

 shining. Seems to be very loeal. 



M. scabra, Klug, Mon. p. 420. Elytra convex and sloping 

 abruptly posteriorly ; covered with fine granulations. Mozambique, 

 neighbourhood of Delagoa Bay. 



M. herculeana, Klug. Monog. p. 423. The largest of all the 

 species of this genus, with elytra but slightly rugose, and shaped like 

 those of Living stoni. From Mozambique, and Lake Nyassa, occurring 

 also in N'Gami land. 



Gen. Ophryodera. Chaud. 



O. rufo-marginata, Bohem. var. Erikssoni. 



Long. 23, lat. 8 mm ' 



Head and prothorax of rufo-marginata and with two longitudinal 

 bands of dense white hairs ; elytra brassy with a broad sutural pale- 

 yellow band uniting at the apex, a wide fascia ascending on each 

 outer side to about the middle of the wing cover and terminating in a 

 small diagonal ramus, a little below the shoulder a slanting ramus 

 reaching about the third part of the length of the wing-cover but not 

 connected with the sutural band ; underside and legs covered with 

 dense white hairs ; the oth, 6th and 7th articulations of the antennae 

 are much compressed and dilated. 



This variety is intermediate between var. Bradshawi, Per. and Tar. 

 Oberthuri, Pering. Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. 1888, p. 221. 



3. rufo-marginata, var. Bradshawi, Pering. Ann. and Mag. Nat. 



Hist. 1888, p. 220. 



Recorded from Zambese River. 



Gen. Cicindela. Linn. 



4. C. jucunda. spec. nov. 



Supra viridis, nitida, subtus cyanea lateribus dense albo-squamosis ; 

 labro flavo, elytris opacis, crebre punclulatis, margine laterali flava, 

 utrinque postice sinuata, lineis tribus (prima sub-humerali intr or sum, 

 s-ecunda ad medium posita retrorsum ducta tertiaque b?-evi, apicali,) 

 emittente. 



Long. 10, lat. 4 mm ' 



Metallic green, moderately shining, labrum and base of mandibles 

 white ; prothorax narrow, slightly pilose ; elytra elongated, narrow,, 

 regularly punctured, outer margin with a white narrow band briefly 



