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Show 480 MR. H. w. B A T E S O N [June 17, the Fauna to that of other parts of Tropical Africa; but, such as is, it points to a close connection with West Africa, especially with the forest-regions of Cameroons and Old Calabar; and we shall not be far wrong in saying that the Coleoptera confirm what has been already advanced with regard to other departments of the Fauna, viz. that Central Africa belongs essentially to the same zoological subprovince as West Africa. The relation with Eastern Equatorial Africa, i. e. the coast-lands opposite to Zanzibar and the wooded regions of Usambara and Nguru, is more remote. Mr. Bonny informs me that the rain-clouds which supply the constant humidity of the Aruwimi forests are brought by south-west winds, though squalls come generally from the north-east. Rain falls more or less throughout the year. It will probably be found that the great central forest-area is connected by means of narrow belts of wood along the courses of streams with the coast-forests. Such belts would be quite sufficient to serve as lines of migration for forest species of animals of all classes. Family CICINDELID^E. CICINDELA CINCTA, Fabr. The specimens differ from all those I have seen from the Gold Coast and the Cameroons in the submarginal white vitta of the elytra being much narrower, and interrupted or even reduced to a short streak near the apex. CICINDELA NEGLECTA, Dej. Family CARABID-_E. CRASPEDOPHORUS BONNYI, n. sp. E majoribus, capite thoraceque relative parvis elytrisque amplioribus et convexi or ibus. Niger, nitidus, capite post ocidos convexos perparum strangulato; thorace subovato etsi anguhs posticis subrectis, margine basali fere recto, laterali explanato-rejiexo, sat grosse punctato sparsim piloso; elytris glabns, punctulato-striatis, interstitiis in hoc genere sat sparsim subtiliter punctatis, utrinque maculis transversis duabus stra-mineis, interstitia 4-8 tegentibus. Ventris segmenta _ antice haud crenulata; episterna postica quadrata, quam latitudine paullo longiora. Long. 23 millim. In the proportions of head and thorax to the after-body similar to C. eximius, Laferte, with which it also agrees in the moderate strangulation of the neck and in the suboval outline of the thorax, which has, however, more sinuated sides behind the middle, and distinct, almost rectangular, hind angles. The elytra, in the single example which appears not to be abraded, is nearly glabrous, the lateral interstices only having a few hairs ; the strise are deep and punctured and the punctuation of the interstices is rather shallow and nowhere very dense ; the fascia, are straw-yellow, narrow, and |