84 Rev. H. S. Gorliam 071 ne\o Coleoptera 



Lycus shmatus, Dalin. {Ifajyloli/cus, B.) 

 J Jab. Natal, Tugcla River. 



Lycus, sp. 

 Hah. Natal, Kavkloof. 



Lycus haayi, Bourg. [Lopholycns, B.) 

 Lycus haayi, Bourg. Auu. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1878, p. 10(3. 



Hah. Natal, Tugela River, Weenen {Marshall); Transvaal, 

 Barberton. 



Fain. Lampyridse. 



Lampyris nignpennis, Boliem. 

 IJah. Natal, Tugela River. 



Lampyris tmctoria, sp. n. 



Ochracca, capita, anteunis, elytrorum basi, geniculis, tibiis, tarsisque 



nigro-fumosis. 

 Long. 14 millim, J . 



Jlah. Mashonaland, Gadzima, Umfuli River (Marshall). 



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

 Ion"- as or a little longer than wide, delicately carinate, rather 

 strongly so near the base, the disk rather strongly " honey- 

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

 so; scutelluni elongate ochraceous ; the elytra are opaque, 

 with a smoky patch on their bases, not reaching the 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. 



Pallida fusco-testacea, antenuis, pedibus, prothoracisque disco in- 

 determinate subfuscis ; elytris nitidis, distincte tricostatis, quam 

 abdomen quadrante bre\aoribus, debilibus, fuscis. 



Long. 13-1-4 millim. d" . 



Hah. Natal, Estcourt (Marshall). 



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



