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stout; penultimate tarsal joint small, feebly lobed, the basal joint of the posterior 

 pair much thickened, more than twice the length of the others united. Length 

 5A, breadth 2 mm. ( ? ?) 



Hob. : Borneo, Mt. Matang iii W. Sarawak ((?. E. Bryant : 

 xii.1913). 



One specimen, in perfect condition. A robust, rather broad, 

 rufo-testaceous, thickly fulvo-pubesceut insect, with comparatively 

 stout legs and antennae, large eyes, and a long third antenual joint. 

 It is not very closely related to any of the other species enumerated in 

 this paper, and might easily be mistaken for a Cistelid. 8. fulva has 

 somewhat the facies of the S. African Bio-phi dina minor (infra), differ- 

 ing from it in the form of the labial palpi, etc. 



(To be continued.) 



LTCOPERDINA SUCCINCT A L. IN SUFFOLK. 



BY G. W. NICHOLSON, M.A., M.D. 



Eed, with a broad black band across the middle of the elytra. Head very 

 finely punctiired ; antennae red, stout, with the 2nd joint scarcely longer than 

 broad, and the 3rd one half as long again as the 2nd. Thorax transverse, with 

 the anterior angles prominent, the sides rovinded and contracted at base, with a 

 deep longitudinal groove on each side extending to near the middle. Scutellum 

 transverse. Elytra oblong, broadest near middle, considerably narrowed towards 

 apex ; sutvire smooth, not depressed. Thorax and elytra finely punctured. 

 Legs red. Length 4-5 mm. 



Anterior tibiae with a stout pointed tooth at the middle of the inner side 

 in (J , and a slight thickening in ^ . 



This species, the type of the genus Golgia Miils., differs from 

 L. bovistae F. in colour, in being less shining, considerably narrower* 

 and less contracted in the middle. The antennae are stouter, with all 

 the joints, and especially the 2nd, shorter. The thorax is shorter, 

 with the anterior angles less developed. The suture of the elytra is 

 not depressed at the base. The secondary sexual characters also are 

 absent in the latter insect. 



I took nine specimens at Barton Mills, Suffolk, out of ripe Lyco- 

 perdon gemmatv.m, on October 1st, 1916, and six more on the same 

 spot on October 4th. They are mostly of the type form, but also 

 include examples of the var. fasciata F., in which the black band on 

 the elytra is interrupted at the suture, and of the var. disca Gerst., in 

 which the disc of the thorax is dark. 



L. succincta is generally distributed over northern and central 



