192 INSECTS ABROAD. 



projecting ridges which traverse the elytra. The contrast be- 

 tween these soft brown hairs and the shining black ridges is 

 very strongly marked, and it is in consequence of this structure 

 tliat the specific name of lineahcs has been given to the insect. 



The legs are also black, but the tibi^ have a decided wash of 

 purple, and are very deeply granulated. The under surface of 

 the thighs is thickly covered with golden red silken down, and 

 a similar coating of down is seen upon the curved tibijB of the 

 hind-legs. The insect inhabits Southern Africa. There is in 

 the British Museum a Beetle yet undescribed, which evidently 

 belongs to this genus. It was brought from South Africa by the 

 late Captain Speke. It is shaped much like the ^jreceding insect, 

 but is covered with spikes and projecting angles. The elytra 

 are surrounded with spikes much like those of the Prionotheca : 

 there are two bold horn- like spikes on the upper part of the 

 thorax, the hinder angles of which are long and sharp. Alto- 

 gether it must be a very unpleasant insect to grasp in the ]iand 

 when alive, as its legs, though not so powerful as those of 

 Anomalipus lineatus, Sire quite strong enough to force the spikes 

 well into the hand. The colour of this species is dark brown. 



