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wider, The tibia are expanded sufficiently to bring the 
insect into the genus Amblyscelis ; the type of that genus is 
A, Kelleni, a West-African species which has the three apical 
joints of the antenne forming a connate club, with the joints 
transverse. As this insect with others, such as A. natalensis, 
has a long lax club, some further subdivision may be required. 
At present I regard the latter insect as forming a section of 
Amblyscelis only (cf. ‘ Notes from Leyden Mus.’ 1888, p. 144). 
The coarseness or fineness of the eyes is a much better 
character for the subdivision than the structure of the club, 
and is that which to a great extent differentiates Ambly- 
scelis from Amblyopus, and which will also separate the 
Madagascar insects referred hitherto to Zriplax (see also 
Gestro, Espl. del Giuba, Ann. Mus. Civ. Genova, 1895, 
p. 473). 
Dacne capensis, Crotch. 
Dacne capensis, Crotch, Rey. Erotyl., Cist. Ent. i. 1876, p. 397. 
Hab. Mashonaland, Salisbury (“ under bark,” Marshall). 
I possess this insect also from Natal, from Zanzibar, and 
several examples from the Upper Congo. 
Crotch first mentions it under J). equinoctialis, his opinion 
then being that it was “‘nota 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 present insect, and of the same size, 
form, and general appearance of other small Dacnes. I see 
no reason for separating it. 
Aulacochilus capensis, Lac. 
Aulacochilus capensis, Lac. Mon. Erot, p. 251; Bedel, Ann. 8. E. Fr. 
1871, p. 284; Crotch, Rev. Erotyl., Cist. Ent. i. 1876, p. 480. 
Hab. Mashonaland, Salisbury, in fungus (/arshall). 
‘This interesting species, so closely allied to the other 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 (/rége), from Natal, and Zulu- 
land. It is (see Lac. /. ¢.) the T’riplaw capensis ot De}. Cat. 
drd ed. p. 453. 
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