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yariety it certainly is. The last distinguishing character is 
that Schénherr describes the underside as black, while Thom- 
son’s harpago is yellow, ne the terminal segment of the 
abdomen. ‘This difference is, I suspect, not one in the insects 
themselves, but due to the process of drying. My reason for 
suspecting this is that the underside, on a slight examination, 
appears to be yellowish in many of my specimens, piceous 
yellow in some, and black in others; but, on a more careful 
examination, I can see a yellowish tinge shining through both 
the brown and the black; so that there is little doubt that they 
have all been more or less yellow in life, and have acquired 
the darker hue either from having been in spirits before being 
dried, or through the process of drying itself, 
This variety occurs at Old Calabar. 
Var. y. subdenticulatus. A variety still larger than any of 
my specimens of harpago, in fact almost as large as the figure 
of it given by Lacordaire, but with the band wholly inter- 
rupted, exactly as in the typical premorsus. It has, however, 
_ the apical truncature much less emarginate; and the little 
tooth at each corner of the emargination in premorsus is here 
almost entirely absent, particularly at the external angle. In 
this respect and in their size my specimens would agree better 
than the preceding banded variety with harpago; but this 
only seems to furnish additional proof that they are all varie- 
_ ties of one species. 
This variety also occurs at Old Calabar. 
Var. 5. fenestratus. In this variety the apical and median 
black bands have coalesced, leaving only a small spot or two 
of yellow surrounded with black. 
his is a variety of which I have a single-female from Old 
Calabar. 
Many specimens have been received of the variety which I 
have called subdenticulatus; only a few of the variety with a 
median band. ; 
12. Lycus Aolus. Pl. IX. fig. 19. 
Capite nigro, thorace subtus nigro, supra aurantiaco, disco 
longitudinaliter nigricante; metasterno nigro, postice flaves- 
cente ; abdomine flavo, medio fuscescente, apice piceo-nigro 5 
elytris aurantiacis, apice et lateribus posticis nigris, hu- 
meris breviter armatis, lateribus expansis tumidis; antennis 
pedibusque nigris. 
Long. 8 lin., lat. 6 lin. 
‘The head black; the thorax above orange-coloured, with 
_ the disk brownish black, and beneath black; the scutellum 
derk, and the elytra bright orange-coloured, bee the apex 
