a 
114 Rev. F. D. Morice on 
the coast of Brittany; by myself in Spain, South France, 
Greece, Anatolia, Syria, and Egypt; and it was found by 
Handlirsch himself in Algeria, though in a variety differ- 
ing considerably from that here recorded. If the present 
form be thought to require a distinguishing name, I would 
suggest “ pyrrhobasis, var. nov.”) 
GORYTES (HARPACTUS) DELICATULUS, n. sp. 
A very small, brightly-variegated species; no doubt 
nearly allied to laevis, pulchellus, ete., and especially to the 
latter. The extent of red on the abdomen is unusual—it 
is not confined to the basal segments, in fact it occupies 
the discs at least of all the segments. Its white markings 
also are very copious—they occur on every segment but 
the last. The ocellar region and the middle of the meso- 
notum are black, but otherwise even on the head and 
thorax there is very little black except on the under-side. 
And the generally pale appearance of the insect is made 
paler still by the silvery pilosity which, as in other desert 
species, clothes it more or less densely all over. Unfortu- 
nately this pilosity conceals the fine sculpture (punctura- 
tion, rugulosity, etc.) of certain areas (especially the pro- 
podeum) so that any “characters” that may exist in it 
are made practically unavailable. I have looked in vain 
for any special peculiarity of a structural nature in these 
insects, but their general appearance seems unlike that of 
anything yet described. (In Mr. Saunders’s MS. list they, 
appear as “sp. ?”.) 
Caput antice lacteum fere totum, superne nigrum, postice (pone 
ocellos) dilute-brunnescens temporibus fusco-maculatis. Pictura 
facialis lactea vel albida fere usque ad ocellum anticum ascendit, 
parvoque intervallo excepto spatium inter oculos totum oceupat, 
In thorace albida sunt vel pallide flava—pronotum paene totum, 
mesonoti areae laterales cum tegulis alarum et parte pleurarum, scu- 
tellum,postscutellum, et propodei maculae 2 magnae laterales. Abdo- 
men usque ad apicem pallide-testaceum, segmentis nonnullis partim 
nigricantibus (sed parcissime !), apicibus omnium (excepto ultimo) 
albido-fasciatis, fasciis latis et, ut videtur, semper integris. Antenne 
pallide fulvescentes, superne plus minusve infuscatae, basi antice 
albida. Pedes colore simili, fusco plus minusve distincte lineati vel 
maculati, tibiis tarsisque vel totis vel antice saltem albidis. Corpus 
argenteo-sericans pilosumque, ita ut sculptura integumenti non facile 
dignosei possit, Clypeus simplex, apice lenissime late emarginato, 
