FOURTH CONTRIBUTION TO THE SOUTH AFRICAN 

 COLEOPTEROUS FAUNA. By L. Peringuey, F.Z.S., 

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



[Read 1892, March 30.] 



Description of New Coleoptera in the South African 



Museum. 



Family : CICINDELID^. 

 Tribe: CICINDELIDJE. 



Gen. Myrmecoptera. Germ. 

 M. limpopoiana. 



JVigro-eenea, supra sub-opaca, prothorace cylindrico, plicatulo j- 

 elytiis elongatis, post medium (Jem.) ampliatis, postice acuminatis 

 apiceque breviter spinosis, a basi ante medium sub-scrobiculatis, 

 deinde granulatis, costa sub-elevata, medium disci attingente in 

 singulo maculaque elongata apicali, alba utrinque notatis. 



Long. 21, lat. 6^-7""". 



Black with a brassy tinge, moderately shining on the upper part,, 

 steel-blue, very shining underneath ; head strigose, labrum quite 

 black or black in the centre and broadly edged with yellow in the 

 female ; prothorax plicated obliquely, long, cylindrical ; elytra 

 ampliated past the middle, acuminated behind with the suture ending 

 in two very short spines, deeply foveated from the base to about 

 the middle, with the postical part closely shagreeued, each one with a 

 moderately raised line, parallel to the suture and reaching the middle, 

 and also an inconspicuous, short, narrow white patch near the apex_ 



Mashuanaland (Fort Tuli). 



A very distinct species ; its nearest ally is M. Bertolonii. 



M. Junodi. 



Nigro-cenea, supra nitida, subtvs violacea, prothorace elongate-^ 

 cylindrico, plicatulo ; elytris elongatis, apice lortge spinosis, a bast 

 ultra medium scrobicvlatis, deinde crebre lateque punctatis. 



Long. 18-20, lat. 4-o mm . 



Metallic blue black, shining on the upper part ; labrum yellow with: 



