SPH^ROCORIS ANNULUS. 



Plate XLVI. fig. 9. 



Order : Hemiptera. Suborder : Heteroptera. Section : Geocorisa. Family : PentatomidEe. 

 Genus. Sph^rocoris, Burmeister. Tetyra, Fabr. Cimex, Drury. 



Sph^rocoris Argus. Lutea, guttis 15 pallidis sive rubris nigi-o-cincti?. (Long. Corp. lin. 4.) 

 Syn. Citnex annulus, Fabr. Ent. Syst. 4. 82. 10. Syst. Rh. 132. 20. (Tetyra A.) 



Cimex Argus, Drury, App. vol. 3. (nee Fabr. Syst. Rh. 533.) Stall Cim.pl. l.fiy. 50. 



SphEerocoris Argus, Burmeister Heinipt. 391 . No. 2 ? 



Scutellera gibbosa, Pal. Beauv. Ins. d'Afr. et d'Aiuer. Hemipt. pi. 5. h.f. 3. 



Habitat : Sierra Leone. 



Head dark cream colour, with two black lines from the front to the hinder part. Thorax dark cream, 

 with two waved bands crossing it from side to side, of a darker colour. Scutellum very large, and 

 entirely covering the abdomen. This part is high and rounded, of the same colour with the rest of the 

 insect, having a number of oval, circular, and other shaped marks thereon. Beneath dark-cream ; 

 breast and fore-part lightest. Rostrum extending below the hinder legs, all of which are of the same 

 dark cream colour with the other parts. 



There is some confusion as to the specific names of the insects composing the present 

 genus. The Tetyra Argus of Fabricius, with which the species here figured (from Sierra 

 Leone) was considered identical by Drury, is an inhabitant of South America. Dr. 

 Burmeister has also confused it with a species from the Cape of Good Hope. 



ELATER (TETRALOBUS) FLABELLICORNIS. 



Plate XLVII. fig. 1. 



Order: Coleoptera. Section: Serricornes. Family: ElateridiE. 

 Genus. Elater, Xiwh. ifc. (Subgenus: TetraXohua, Encycl. MHIt.) 



Elater (Tetralobus) FLABELLICORNIS. Fuscus, antennis 8-laminatis, elytris iiitidig Isevibus. ( Long. Corp. 

 2 unc. G lin.) 



Syn. Elater flabellieoniis, Linn. Syst. Nat. 1. 11. p. 651. 1.? Fabr. Syst. Ent. 1. App. p. 824. 1.? Syst. 

 Eleiith.U. p. 221. 2.? De Jean Catal. Col. ind Edit.S5. Oliv. Ent. U. SI. p. 8. *. 3. /y. 28. ? 

 Herbst. Col. ix. p. .320. t. 127./. 1. ? 

 Elater Gigas, Fabr. Syst. E/euth. U.p. 221. l.i 

 Habitat: fiiena Leone (Drury, Af:elius, Schojth.). Oamea ( De Jean). India. (Linn. Fabr. Oliv.). 



Head rather small, square, surrounded with a small black margin ; palpi very short. Antennae 

 black ; those of the male laminated, having eight distinct plates or laminae laying close to each other, 

 which, when closed together, appear to be of equal thickness. General colour dark or dirty brown. 

 Thorax with a black margin, terminating on the sides in two sharp spines. Scutellum small. Elytra 

 smooth and glossy, without any margin, and rounded at the extremities, without spines. Sternum black 

 and small. Beneath of the same colour as the upper side. 



