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XV. On some black species of Cantharis with red heads 
and filiform antenne. By Cuas. O. WATERHOUSE. 
[Read 3rd July, 1871.) 
Havine lately required a name for a species of black 
Cantharis, belonging to the group with the head red, 
and with filiform antenne, I have gathered together all 
the specimens at my disposal, with a view of identifying 
them. I find among them five species, and as only one 
of these has been at all properly described, I have ven- 
tured to write out descriptions of them all. I have yet 
one or two which cannot well be placed with these five, 
but as the species are so close, | thought it better not to 
describe from single specimens. 
Cantharis nepalensis, Hope. 
Lytta Nepalensis, Hope, Gray’s Zool. Miscel. p. 32. 
Ater; capite rufo, antennis filiformibus, tibiis anticis 
non hirsutis ; elytris apices versus latioribus. 
Long. 63-114 lin. 
Closely allied to C. ruficeps of Illiger, but is to be dis- 
tinguished from it by the deeper red colouring, and 
strong punctuation of the head, and by the elytra being 
distinctly broader towards the apex. 
The head is dull dark red, not very thickly, but some- 
what strongly, punctured ; the clypeus is almost entirely 
black, as are also the labrum and other parts of the 
mouth. The antenne are filiform, very slightly pubes- 
cent; the first joint short, the second very short, the 
third the longest, the fourth to seventh equal, the eighth to 
tenth rather shorter, the eleventh a little longer than the 
seventh. The thorax is subquadrate (contracted in front) , 
thickly and distinctly punctured, less closely and rather 
more strongly on the disc; the fore-part is slightly im- 
pressed on each side, there is a faint longitudinal line on 
the disc, and a deep fovea in the centre of the posterior 
margin. The elytra somewhat broader towards the apex, 
where they diverge, each rounded at the apex, the whole 
TRANS. ENT. soc. 1871.—ParT II. (AUGUST.) FF 
