INSECT A. 197 



(medio excepto) ochraceis ; prothorace leviter transverse, 

 subquadratOj antice late rotundato, lateribus fere parallelis, 

 disco longitudinaliter canaliculate, anticis posticis rectis, 

 baud productis ; elytris ante medium in expansionem magnam 

 concolorem, supra concavatam et valde reflexam, infra autem 

 convexans et declivem rotundato-ampliatis, deiu apicem 

 versus attenuatis ibique siugulatim rotundatis, irregulariter 

 punctato-reticulatis, costis 2 elevatis, bene distinctis, apice 

 abbreviatis ornatis ; abdominis segmento penultimo integro, 

 ultimo elongato-triangulari, bivalvato, forcipe apicem versus 

 attenuate ibique leviter curvato, simplici. 

 Long. 13 mill.; lat. tborac. 3 mill.; lat. max. elytr. 11 mill. 



$ . Hucusque invisa. 



Hanc speciem insignem Dom. W. L. Distant, qui earn detexit, 

 dicare gaucleo. (/. Bourgeois.) 



For notes relating to the few beetles belonging to the two 

 following families, Lampyridse and Melyridse, I am indebted to 

 the Rev. H. S. Gorham. 



Fam. LAMPYRID^. 



Luciola capensis, Oliv. Ent. ii. no. 28, p. 21 (Lampyris) . Pretoria. 

 A Luciola with the thorax, metasternum, scutellum, coxae, 

 and femora yellow, the disk of the thorax with a large pitchy 

 black mark narrowly divided by the yellow carina and a central 

 spot. The elytra are leaden black with the suture brownish. 

 I have seen this insect named as above, but I doubt if it is the 

 L. capensis of Fabricius or of Olivier. A single male. 



(H. S. Gorham.) 



Fam. MELYRIDJI:. 



Hedybius amcenus, sp. n. (Tab. I. fig. 2.) 



Lfete flavus, capitis basi, thoracis macula parva, antice excisa, 

 abdominis apice tarsisque posticis nigris ; antennarum arti- 

 culis sex ultimis nigro-notatis/ elytris et metasterno cseruleis. 

 Long. 5 millim. Pretoria. 



Two specimens. A species to be distinguished in its genus 

 by the single black thoracic spot, which, however, looks rather 

 like two oblong spots united, and by the colour of its legs and 

 antennae, among other points. (H. S. Gorham.) 



