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with transverse rows of (mostly square) pale spots, while E. Gtu/oni is 

 uniformly black, except that the spines, and the spiny raised hind- 

 border of the pronotuui, are red. The specimen of U. spinulosus in 

 the British Museum was brought by Mr. J. J. Walker from Fez. He 

 states that the insect is much sought after by the natives as an 

 aphrodisiac, and that they are extremely unwilling to part with speci- 

 mens. 



EuaASTER WooDii, sp. n. 



Male. Head black, and rugose-punctate above the eyes ; white below, clypeus 

 witli scattered punctures, and transversely striated at its lower extremity ; antennss 

 brown above, bluish-white at the base ; between them stands a strong, short, conical 

 horn. Pronotum brown, uneven, strongly punctured, mottled with black, and the 

 spines blackish towards the base ; with red tips. On the front edge are four spines at 

 about equal distances apart, the two middle ones small, the lateral ones larger, and 

 each with a still larger one, nearly erect, a little behind and within it. At the base of 

 each of these hinder spines is a round pale depression, and another obliquely behind 

 it, more or less surrounded with black. Behind this point the pronotum is slightly 

 constricted, and a central lobe commences with a large spine on 'each side, which is 

 nearly horizontal, and blackish at the base ; between these spines are four black 

 marks, the front ones forming long triangles directed backwards, and the hind ones 

 transverse curves. Behind each spine are two black streaks, connected with a series 

 of ten short black stripes, on the hinder edge of the centre of the pronotum ; these 

 are flanked on each side by another long i-ed spine at a lower level ; these form the 

 first of a series of two long and about five small red spines on each side, which run 

 round the raised hinder lobe of the pronotum, which is not marked with black, 

 except towards the base of some of the spines. Abdomen with the segments light 

 brown in front, mostly striped with pale green beyond the middle, and edged with 

 black behind. Legs white, a white red-tipped spine above the front coxse, front tibiae 

 with five or six short spines on each side, middle tibiae with three or four, hind 

 tibiae with two to five. 



Female similar, but the pronotum paler testaceous, and the abdomen darker 

 brown ; the legs are spotted with rusty-brown, which is hardly apparent in the male, 

 and the tibial spines are larger ; there are seven or eight on the hind tibiae. 



Long. Corp., 32 — 4i mm. 



Sah. : Somali Land. 



In the collection of the British Museum. Presented by Capt. C. 

 E. W. Wood, 2nd North Staffordshire Eegiment. 



Intermediate between JE. spinulosus, Linn., from Morocco, and 

 E. Servillei, Reiche, from Abyssinia. It is abundantly distinct fi'om 

 the former ; the latter is not before me, but appears from the descrip- 

 tion and figure to be mucb paler, and more uniform in colour. 



British Museum (Natural History) : 

 May ISth, 1891. 



