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the middle very much ditated” (elytris pone medium valde 
dilatatis). It is true that they are very much dilated behind 
the middle, but so are they before the middle; and if the 
meaning were “ very much dilated, most so behind the middle,” 
then it would be correct; but I rather incline to treat this as 
an inaccurate turn of expression. There is no African Lycus 
that I know of, except this, which has any of the thighs 
toothed. 
A single male of this species is all that I have seen from 
Old Calabar. Boheman’s description was made from specimens 
taken by Wahlberg near the River Limpopo; so that we have 
here the same species apparently ranging across the whole 
continent. ‘The Abyssinian habitat, resting on its being the 
species described by Guérin, must be cancelled. 
6. Lycus subcostatus. Pl. IX. fig. 8. 
?. Niger, supra flavus; thoracis disco, scutello elytrorumque 
apice nigris, lateribus abdominis flavis vel piceis; elytris 
_ sgublinearibus, quadricostatis, costa secunda et quarta magis 
_ quam ceteris elevatis, humeris horizontaliter costatis. 
Long. 54 lin., lat. 24 lin. 
_g ignotus. 
Similar in appearance to the female of L. immersus or folia- 
ceus, but with the following differences :—the disk of the thorax 
black ; the elytra with four coste slightly raised, the second 
raised a good deal more than the rest, and the fourth next in 
degree ;.the shoulders slightly expanded, not tumid, but flat, 
mad with the margin costate; the black apex of the elytra 
narrowest at the suture. The antenne are broader than in L. 
foliaceus, and with a tendency to flabellation. Male unknown. 
Only one specimen received. 
7. Lycus scapularis. Pl. IX. fig. 9. 
L. palliato affinis et similariter coloratus; elytris longioribus, 
umeris parum minus inflatis; subtus fuscescens et abdo- 
mine testaceo. 
Long. 8 lin., lat. 34 lin. 
Closely allied to LZ. palliatus of Fabricius and to L. pallio- 
latus of Schénherr, which are probably, as the latter divined, 
male and female of the same species. ‘This is still longer and 
_ proportionally narrower than either, and has the underside 
uscescent, except the abdomen, which is testaceous instead of 
black ; the shoulders are more restricted in their inflation ; the 
