VII. Sixth Contribution to the South African Coleopterous Fauna By L. PERINGUEY, Assistant Director.-'-DESCRIPTION OP NEW SPECIES OF COLEOPTERA IN THE COLLECTION OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN MUSEUM. (Plate XIII.) FAMILY CICINDELID^E. GEN. TETRACHA, Hope. TETRACHA (STYPHLODERMA) DODSI, n. sp. Bronze-black on the upper side ; elytra opaque and having in both sexes two sub-basal and two supra-apical, flavescent, elongated patches ; the seven apical joints of the antennae are sub-flavescent, the others fuscous, palpi flavescent, labrum with a flavous basal margin in the male, entirely black in the female ; anterior and inter-mediate femora flavescent, but fuscous on one side only, hind ones entirely fuscous, tibiae flavescent but infuscate on one side ; head broad, impunctate, impressed on each side of the eyes, the impres-sion longitudinally plicate ; prothorax with the normally raised, impunctate central part of the disk, and the anterior and posterior constricted parts closely and somewhat strongly granulose, the lateral keel is prolonged in both sexes as far as the basal margin and nearly coalesces with it without being either sharp or dentate ; elytra very elongato-ovate, hardly wider at a very short distance from the apex than they are at the base in the male, less acuminate laterally behind in the female, and only very slightly sinuate laterally at some distance from the shoulders, not convex, yet not depressed in the male, slightly convex in the female, covered with appressed, triangular granules separated from each other by an interval equal * The first four Contributions were published in the Transactions of the South African Philosophical Society, 1885-1892 ; the fifth in the Annals of the South African Museum, vol. i. p. 240. 16
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