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124 Dr. B. P. Uvarov’s Notes on the 
1898. Thlisoicetrus| adspersus I. Bolivar, Ann. Sci. Nat. 
Porto, v, pp. 34, 35, no. 2. 
1905. Th{isoecetrus| adspersus Jacobson and Bianchi; 
Priam. i Lozhnoset. Ross. Imp., pp. 205, 319. 
1910. 7 hisoicetrus|] adspersus Kirby, Syn. Cat. Orth., iii, 
p. 509, no. 4. 
1912. Thlisoecetrus| adspersus Uvarov, Horae Soc. Ent. 
Ross., xl (3), pp. 33, 34, fig. 3c. 
British Museum specimens : Spain (I. Bolivar), 2 33, 2 99. 
3. Thisoicetrus buxtoni Uvar. 
1921. Thisoecetrus buxtoni Uvarov, Journ. Bomb. Nat. 
Hist. Soc. (in course of publication). 
British Museum. specimens : Mesopotamia, Masharra 
Canal, Amara, 8 vi. 1918 (W. #. Evans), 1 3 (type); Amara 
(P. A. Buxton), 1 3 (cotype). 
4, Thiscicetrus pulehripes pulchripes (Schaum). 
1853. Caloptenus pulchripes Schaum, Ber. Akad. Berlin, 
1853, p. 779, no. 21. 
1862. Caloptenus pulchripes Schaum, Peters Reise Mozamb., 
ZOOL Vv. p, 138s pli we Ay te le 
1910. ELwprepocnemis| pulchripes Kirby, Syn..Cat. Orth., 
li, "p; OOL, 0:85 
1917. [Thisoicetrus| pulchripes I. Bolivar, Trab. Mus. 
Madrid, ser. Zool., N 20, p. 23. 
British Museum specimens : 8. Rhodesia, Chirinda Forest 
(C. F. M. Swynnerton), 2 GS; Salisbury, Mashonaland 
(G. A. K. Marshall), 1 3, 2 92; Mt. Chirinda, Gaza Land, 
Noy.—Dec. 1906 (D. Odendaal), 1 9; Fort Johnston, Nyasa- 
land (P. Rendall), 1 9. 
The female specimen from Fort Johnston has short elytra, 
scarcely extending beyond the apex of abdomen. Males, 
which have not previously been described, completely agree 
in all morphological characters with 7. guineensis Kr., as 
well as with 7. jeanneli Bol., and I cannot regard the two 
latter species as well as 7. coerulipes Sjost., and 7’. nigro- 
vittatus Bol., as anything else than local colour forms of 
one species. This, in my opinion, is confirmed by the 
occurrence of some transitional forms between these. 
Thus the ab. coeruleipennis of T'. pulchripes, described below, 
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