138 Mrs. M. K. Thomas on 



the oesophageal portion of the gut and the left one the intes- 

 tinal portion, and that botli open at first into the pharynx, 

 although tlie intestine soon looses this connexion and acquires 

 a new anal opening into the median atrium. 



Baltimore, 

 April 25, 1893. 



XXV. — Descriptions of Three new Species of the Genus Iletica 

 (Cantharida?) in the Collection of the British Museum. By 

 Mrs. M. K. Thomas. 



[Plate VI. B. figs. 1-3.] 



Iletica Waterhousei, sp. n. (PI. VI. B. fig. 2.) 



Head narrowed in front, deeply impressed in the centre ; 

 anteriorly black and more finely and thickly punctured than 

 |K)steriorly, where it is red-brown, glabrous, and very shining ; 

 eyes brown ; palpi and labrum reddish ; antennse black. 



Prothorax red-brown, with black down its centre, broader 

 than long, its outer sides slightly convergent posteriorly ; a 

 strongly defined posterior transverse impression ; a deep 

 median groove with two fovete on either side, one large and 

 deep, placed posteriorly, the other small and fainter, situated 

 further forwards and outwards ; slightly pubescent anteriorly, 

 glabrous and very shining posteriorly. 



Scutellum black, finely punctured and shining. 



Elytra half as broad again as the prothorax, long, rather 

 rugose, each elytron with four slightly raised lines, including 

 the sutural ones; anterior halves of elytra deep yellow, with 

 two bands of black, their posterior halves wholly black. 



Underside and legs covered with short yellow pubescence, 

 the former black with yellow patches on the metasternum, 

 the latter black with red spots on the femora of the posterior 

 pair ; abdominal segments yellow and infuscated. 



Lengtlx 32, breadth 10 millim. 



Hah. Sierra Leone {Coll. Foxcroft). 



Besides the type there are in the British Museum two other 

 specimens which, although they vary somewhat as to colora- 

 tion, are in all other points so similar to /. Waterhousei^ that 

 they .should apparently be referred to the same species. One 

 is of unknown locality, the other also comes from Sierra 

 Leone. 



