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the Relative Edibility of Insects. 67 
i Obs. No. Name. Colour. a Remarks. 
Cerambycidae. | 
244 | 499,598, |} Anubis (Oligosmerus) lim- C ete Small, bright green, with 
603, balis Har. fragrant smell. 
Lamiidae. 
52 | 98,99 Dirphya similis Gah. AA — | Black and orange, slender, 
3raconoid, 
75 | 147, 348, | Phantasis zanzibarica a + Of very unusual form and 
Ne 390 Gerst., or closely allied habits; dull black; prob- 
sp. ably mimetic of the hard 
weevil No. 74. 
226 468 ? ie + Dull blue-black, spotted 
with buff. 
255 524 ? PP ++ | Bark-brown with two 
whitish blotches. 
259 538 ? PE + Grey. 
263 542 Spilotragus xanthus Jord. Oo + Small, light grey and 
yellow: Possibly some- 
what Hymenopteroid. 
General remarks on the LONGICORNS. 
These beetles are extremely likely to be met with by 
monkeys, and in one case (Obs. 468) the monkey seemed 
clearly to recognise the edibility of the beetle from a 
distance. A large species of Lamiid mimicking a common 
type of Braconid was definitely classed as distasteful. 
The very abnormal species 75 seemed to me definitely 
to be mimicking a large and very hard ground-weevil 
found almost at the same time and place on the same day ; 
it has only been found walking slowly on the ground. 
The only Cerambycid tested was a very abundant bright 
green species with characteristic odour, but I was unable 
to class its coloration. When found on yellow composite 
flowers it was very conspicuous, yet among green foliage 
it must be well concealed; its behaviour, however, is not 
that of a typically procryptic insect. 
Every one of the species offered stridulated by strong 
nutation of the thorax except No. 75, but the monkey 
seemed to take no notice of this save in Obs. 98. 
| Curculionidae. 
66 127 Apoderus balteatus Pér., C +-++ | Yellow with pink elytra; 
| var. perhaps resembles a leaf- 
| gall. ; 
68; —130 Microcerus sp. nr. annu- Pe ++ | Stone-colour. 
liger Har. 
221 460, 562 | Microcerus spiniger Gerst. C -+ | Black, very hard. 
96 205 Attelabus pustula Anc. ssl 2 +E Resembles red leaf-gall. 
165 | = 350 Larinus sp. LPP + Soft browns and greens. 
Striped longitudinally dark 
and light. 
+ 
202 423 Alcides leucogrammus Er. Teale +--+ 
+ | Black, speckled with 
+ 
4- 
97 206, 257, | Tsaniris sp., probably new. 12 + 
268, 492 
252; 518 Blosyrus haroldi Hartm. PP + 
253 | 519, 613) Lizus sp. P + 
whitish. 
Stone-colour. 
Large, covered with yellow 
bloom. 
