138 Mrs. M. K. Thomas on 
the cesophageal portion of the gut and the left one the intes- 
tinal portion, and that both open at first into the pharynx, 
although the intestine soon looses this connexion and acquires 
a new anal opening into the median atrium. 
Baltimore, 
April 25, 1893. 
XX V.—Descriptions of Three new Species of the Genus Iletica 
(Cantharide) in the Collection of the British Museum. By 
Mrs. M. K. THomas. 
[Plate VI. B. figs. 1-3.] 
Tletica Waterhouset, sp.n. (PI. VI. B. fig. 2.) 
Head narrowed in front, deeply impressed in the centre ; 
anteriorly black and more finely and thickly punctured than 
posteriorly, where it is red-brown, glabrous, and very shining ; 
eyes brown ; palpi and labrum reddish ; antenne black. 
Prothorax red-brown, with black down its centre, broader 
than long, its outer sides slightly convergent posteriorly ; a 
strongly defined posterior transverse impression; a deep 
median groove with two fovez: on either side, one large and 
deep, placed posteriorly, the other small and fainter, situated 
further forwards and outwards; slightly pubescent anteriorly, 
glabrous and very shining posteriorly. 
Scutellum black, finely punctured and shining. 
Elytra half as broad again as the prothorax, long, rather 
rugose, each elytron with four slightly raised lines, including 
the sutural ones; anterior halves of elytra deep yellow, with 
two bands of black, their posterior halves wholly black. 
Underside and legs covered with short yellow pubescence, 
the former black with yellow patches on the metasternum, 
the latter black with red spots on the femora of the posterior 
pair; abdominal segments yellow and infuscated. 
Length 32, breadth 10 millim. 
Hab. Sierra Leone (Coll. Foxcroft). 
Besides the type there are in the British Museum two other 
specimens which, although they vary somewhat as to colora- 
tion, are in all other points so similar to LZ. Waterhouse?, that 
they should apparently be referred to the same species. One 
is of unknown locality, the other also comes from Sierra 
Leone. 
