ji'om South and West Africa. 83 



punctined. The elytra are ani|)le, widoiied bclilnd, deep blue 

 or bluish jxroen, ol)SoIetely ?ulcatc at the base; near tlie 

 suture closely and finely punctured. ^J'he abdomen is black, 

 like the body, but the membranes joinin*^ tiie segments are 

 almost scarlet, so that when distcndi-d they a])|)ear Tnargiiied 

 with red. Also the vesicles which these insects can projict 

 when alarmed, in common with the Malachii ami lleJijl>ii\ 

 arc red. The lep;s are entirely black, the tarsi four-fifths of 

 the len<,Mh of the tibia>. 



Ols. — This very distinct p;enus is the only one yet described 

 of the larger J/(t/(/c/tm/('.s with fnur-jointcd tarsi in the mah^ — 

 a character found in (lie small Kurcpcan Troylops and CuIAi'k. 

 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 Distanti, Bourgeois. 



Li/tus Dt'staiiti, Bourfreois, in Distant's Naturalist in the Transvaal, 

 "li. 190, t. i. Hg. 3, (S. 



9 . Minus, attamen modice expansus, mari similiter coloratus, sed 

 subtus saturatiori; abdomine, lateribus et scgracntis duol>us 

 apicalibiis exceptis, nigro, margine hiimcrali multo minus eleva^o- 

 reficxo. 



Long. 12 millim. 



Ifah. Natal, Malvern. (^ ? . 



This species, described by M. J. Bourgeois, appears todiftVr 

 from L. elevatus, Guerin-Men., Bohem. Ins. Catfr. i. tasc. 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 j)ortion of the elytra less contracted than in 

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

 whicb 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 Dalm. [AcantholycuSj Bourg.) 



Hah. Mashonaland, Salisbury. (S ? . 

 Seveial examples. 



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