Cohoptera from South Africa. 8r».5 



wider. The tibia^ are cxpaiuled sufficiently to bring tiie 

 insect into the genus Amhlyscelts ] tlie type of that genus is 

 A. KeUeniy a West-African species which has the three apical 

 joints of the antenna? forming a connate club^ with the joints 

 transverse. As this insect with others, such as A. natalensisj 

 has a long lax club, some further subdivision may be required. 

 At present I regard the latter in.«ect as forming a section of 

 Amblyscdis only [cf. * Notes from Lcyden Mus.' 1888, p. 144). 

 The coarseness or fineness of the eyes is a much better 

 cliaiactcr for the subdivision than the structure of the club, 

 and is that which to a great extent differentiates Ambl//- 

 sceh's from Amhli/ojyus, and which will also separate the 

 Madagascar insects referred hitherto to Triplax (see also 

 Gestro, Espl. del Giuba, Ann. Mus. Civ. Genova, 1895, 

 p. 473). 



Dacne capensis, Crotch. 

 J)a( ue cajxnsia, Ciotcli, Rev. Erotyl., Cist. Ent. i. 1876, p. 397. 



f/ab. Mashonaland, Salisbury (" under bark/' Marshall). 



1 possess this insect also from Natal, from Zanzibar, and 

 several examples from the Upper Congo. 



Crotch first mentions it under IJ. ccquinoctialis, his opinion 

 then being that it was ''not a true Dacne " ; but his description 

 made subsequently of D. capensis appears rather enigmatically 

 immediately below, and by an oversight he omitted to mention 

 the four red spots on the elytra. I have, however, examined 

 the type, and it is the j)resent insect, and of the same size, 

 foim, a!id general appearance of other small JJacnes. I see 

 nc) reason for separating it. 



Aulacochilus capensis ^ Lac. 



Aulacochilus capensis, Lac. Mon. Erot. p. 251 ; Bedel, Ann. S. E. Fr. 

 1871, p. 284 ; Crotch, Rev. Erotyl., Cist. Ent. i. 1876, p. 480. 



Jldb. ^lashonaland, Salisbury, in fungus (Marshall). 



'1 his interesting species, so closely allied to the uther blue 

 species which occur in Europe, N. Africa, and various parts 

 of Asia, seems widely dispersed in South Africa. I have 

 seen it from the Cape Colony (Dri^je), from Natal, and Zulu- 

 land. It is (see Lac. l. c.) the Tn'pbtx capensis of Doj. Cat. 

 8rd ed. p. 453. 



[To be contimiiHl.] 



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