from South and West Africa. 83 



punctured. The elytra are ample, widened behind, deep blue 

 or bluish green, obsoletely sulcate at the base; near the 

 suture closely and finely punctured. The abdomen is black, 

 like the body, but the membranes joining the segments are 

 almost scarlet, so that when distended they appear margined 

 with red. Also the vesicles which these insects can project 

 when alarmed, in common with the Malacliii and lledyhh\ 

 are red. The legs are entirely black, the tarsi four-fifths of 

 t!ie length of the tibife. 



Ohs. — '^I'his very distinct genus is the only one yet described 

 of the larger ^lalacliiides with four-jointed tarsi in the male — 

 a character found in the small European Troglops and Guhtes. 

 I have no doubt the anterior production of the thorax in the 

 male is a stridulating apparatus. 



One male and three females were obtained by Mr. Marshall. 



Fam. Lycidae. 



Lycus Distantly Bourgeois. 



Lycus Distant!, Bourgeois, in Distant's Natiu'alist in tlie Transvaal, 

 1). 196, t. i. tig. 3, d- 



2 . Minus, attamen modice expausus, mari similiter coloratus, sed 

 subtus saturatiori; abdonaine, lateribus et segmentis duobus 

 apicalibus exceptis, nigro, margine humcrali multo minus elevato- 

 refiexo. 

 Long. 12 millim. 



Ilah. Natal, Malvern. ^ ? . 



This species, described by M. J. Bourgeois, appears to differ 

 from L. elevatus, Guerin-Men., Bohem. Ins. Caffr. i. fasc. 2, 

 p. 428, by lacking the lateral black mark, as well as by the 

 shorter rostrum and some differences in form. The male of 

 our insect has the abdomen wholly yellow. The female was 

 not met with by Mr. Distant, and is now described for the 

 first time. The single male sent by Mr. Marshall has 

 the black apical portion of the elytra less contracted than in 

 the single example taken by Mr. Distant at Pretoria, but 

 which struck me when I saw it as a good deal shrivelled, 

 not altogether in a normal condition. I have not seen 

 L. elevatus. 



Lycus terminatuSj Dalra. {Acantholycus, Bourg.) 



Hob. Mashonaland, Salisbury. ^ $ . 

 Several examples. 



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