84 Eev. H. S. Gorliam on new Coleoptera 



Lycus sinuatus, Dalm. [HaplolycuSy B.) 

 Hah. Natal, Tugela River. 



Lycus, sp. 

 Hah. Natal, Kavkloof. 



Lycus liaagi, Bourg. [Lopholycns, B.) 

 Lycus haagi, Bourg. Aun. Soc. Eiit. Fr. 1878, p. 166. 



Liah, Natal, Tugela River, Weeneii (Marshall); Transvaal, 

 Barberton. 



Fain. Lampyridse. 



T^ampyris nigripennis^ I^oliem. 

 Hah. Natal, Tugela River. 



Lampyris tinctorial sp. n. 



Ochracea, capite, antennis, elytrorum basi, geniculis, tibiis, tarsisque 



nigro-fumosis. 

 Long. 14 millim. S . 



Hah. MashonalancI, Gadzinia, Umfuli River {Marshall). 



Parallel, the thorax as wide as the elytra at the base, as 

 long as or a little longer than wide, delicately carinate, rather 

 strongly so near the base, the disk rather strongly '•'■ honej'- 

 comb " punctured in front, the sides and basal half obsoletely 

 so; scutellum elongate ochraceous ; the elytra are opaque, 

 ■with a smoky patch on their bases, not reaching tiie outer 

 margin, and shading off indefinitely on the apical side ; wings 

 smoky. The body beneath is ochraceous ; the femora out- 

 wardly and at the knees, the tibise and tarsi entirely smoky 

 black. 



The antennae are black, but inclined to be fuscous at their 

 base; the mouth and palpi are ochraceous, fuscous in parts. 



Three examples. 



Lampyris imhecilla, sp. n. 



Pallide fusco-testacea, antennis, pedibus, prothoracisque disco in- 

 determinate subfuscis ; elytris nitidis, distincte tricostatis, quam 

 abdomen quadrante brevioribus, debilibus, fuscis. 



Long. 13-14 millim. cS . 



Hah. Natal, Estcourt [Marshall). 



Narrow, obscurely coloured. Thorax as long as wide, the 



