92 Mons. J. Bourgeois on Alalacodermala 



The males are numbered 86 [4] and 87 [5], and one bears 

 the date 18. 11. 13 [6] without a number. No information 

 is to be found concerning these three specimens, except the 

 locality and date and the fact that there were " 4 duplic. L."] 



Merolycus, Bourg. 



10, 11. rostratus, L., 2 ^ • — -^fi^- austr. [Uitenhage, Cape 

 Colony, Jan. 16, 1814.] 



12. — — , wdii'. pyriformis, Murray, 1 (^. — A£r. austr. 



[Burchell's no. 85 captured at the same date and locality as 

 10 and 11. *' Mares gaudent elytris latioribus. — Foem. an- 

 gustiorib, Vix volantem vidi. Hab. in floribus " (Catalogus). 

 In the Banksian Collation Burchell wrote " 85. Lycus. 

 Similis colore forma Lyco rostrato qui tamen abunde difFert 

 rostro, et elytris paulo majoribus."] 



Calopteeon, Gudr.-Mdn. 



13. tropicum, L. {fasciatum, F.), var. humeris immaculatis, 



1 ?. — Bresil. [Porto Real (now Porto Nacional), 

 March 3, 1829.] 



Le type de I'espece a les elytres tachees de jaune aux 

 ^paules et parait plus spdcialement rdpandu en Guyane; j'en 

 ai vu cependant plusieurs exemplaires du Brdsil. 



14-17. hrasiHense, Cast. {simiaticoUe, Luc). Color, typic. : 

 elytris fusco-nigris, macula humerali mogna fasciaque 

 lata transversa pone medium flavis ; abdominis segraentis 

 primis medio llavo-maculatis (Bourg. Comptes Rend. 

 Soc. ent. Belg. 1879, p. xv). 1 S,o ? . 



[The male [14] bears the number 808, indicating capture, 

 Oct. 22, 1825, on the excursion from Rio into Minas Geraes. 

 The detailed locality is given as " In a Ro^a (about 4 miles 

 S.S.W. of the house of Discoberto) on the road towards 

 'Nepomucena." The single specimen captured is named 

 " Z?/CMS." The dates and localities of the other specimens 

 are respectively : — [15] Feb. 9, 1826, by the River Pacaque, 

 Organ Mountains; [16] Feb. 21, 1826, Organ Mountains; 

 and [17] Jan. 15, 1827, Cubatao, " given by Thomas Smith."] 



18, 19. , var. a : elytris flavis, fascia dorsali interrupta 



apiceque late nigrescentibus (Bourg. he. supr, cit. p. xvi). 



2 ? . — Bresil, Cubatao. 



[18. Dec. 8, 1826. " Cubatao, at the Rio das Pedras at 



