322 Mr. G. ©. Champion on various African 
Male.—Length 13°8 mm.; wing 12°8 mm. 
Rostrum and palpi very small, brown. Antenne short, 
scape light yellow, flagellum dark brown, clothed with 
moderately long hairs. Head brownish orange, on the 
vertical tubercle becoming clearer orange; the tubercle 
only moderately prominent, the anterior end shallowly 
notched. 
Mesonotum shiny brownish yellow, the lateral margin 
of the prescuttim darker brown. Pleura yellowish brown. 
Halteres brown, the knobs dark brown. Legs with the coxe 
and trochanters shiny yellowish brown ; femora black, the 
bases conspicuously yellowish, this somewhat broadest on 
the posterior legs ; tibize black, the extreme bases narrowly 
and very indistinctly obscure yellow ; tarsi black. Wings 
broad, strongly saturated with light greyish brown ; cell Sc 
and a broad line behind vein Cu light yellow; stigma sub- 
circular, greyish brown; conspicuous darker brown spots, 
arranged as follows: at arculus; at origin of Rs; at Sc; 
at ends of veins A, and &,; along the cord and outer end 
of cell lst M,; veins obscure yellow, darker in the infuscated 
areas ; each vein is very narrowly seamed with yellow; 
macrotrichiz confined to the distal ends of the subcostal and 
radial veins, except & which bears them for its entire length. 
Venation: Sc, a short distance from the tip of Sc,; Rs 
angulated and spurred at origin; A,,,a little longer than 
the basal deflection of Cu,; cell WM, lacking ; Cu. and the 
deflection of Cu, subequal, the latter about one-half its 
length beyond the fork of M. 
Abdominal tergites brownish yellow, the sternites brighter. 
Hypopygium small. 
Hab. West Africa. 
Holotype, 3, Efulan, Cameroun, May 6, 1920 (J. A. 
Reis). 
“ Found on a swamp plant.” 
XXXVII.—Notes on various African and Asiatic Species 
of Laius, Guérin, with an Account of their accessory 
3 -characters { Coleoptera}. By G. C. Cuampion, F.Z.8. 
[Plate VIII.] 
Tuais paper is in continuation of one of the allied genus 
Hapalochrus published in the last volume of this Magazine, 
and it contains an account of all the species of Laius 
represented in the British Museum, in the Hope collection 
