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Genus Locris. 



Locris, StSl, Hem. Afr. iv. p. 57 (1866). 

 Type^ L. rubra, Fabr. 



Locris auripennis, sp. n. 



Head above, pronotum, and scutcllum orange-yellow ; 

 more than basal half o£ head, pronotum with a broad sul)- 

 anterior fascia not reaching lateral margins, and a broad 

 basal fascia not reaching the posterior lateral angles, black ; 

 scutellura with four small basal black spots, one at each 

 basal angle and two (strongly foveate) between them ; abdo- 

 men above black, the segmental margins carmine-red ; body 

 beneath and legs black ; basal margin and central fascia to 

 face (the latter reaching to about middle), lateral areas of 

 prosternnm (containing a black spot), apices of femora, 

 tibiae, and tarsi orange-yellow, bases and apices of tibite and 

 apices of tarsi black ; metasternum more or less sanguineous ; 

 tegmina golden yellow, with two small black marginal spots, 

 one at apex of clavus, the other above it at costal margin ; 

 wings shining fuliginous, the basal area and apex blackish, 

 extreme base sanguineous ; pronotum rugosely punctate, 

 more so on posterior half, with a central carinate line not 

 reaching anterior margin ; face compressed, centridly longi- 

 tudinally carinate ; posterior tibiae with a strong spine at 

 about one-third from apex ; tegmina nearly three times as 

 long as broad. 



Long., excL tegm., 9 mm. ; exp. tegm. 25-25^ mm. 



Hub. N.W. Rhodesia; W. of Kambove [Neave, Brit. 

 Mus.). 



Allied to L. erytJiromela, Walk., but a larger insect ; 

 colour of tegmina different, base of clavus concolorous, not 

 black, small foveate spots at base of scutellum, &c. The 

 British Museum possesses a long series of this species. 



Locris katangensis, sp. n. 



Head black, a narrow ochraceous marginal spot in front 

 of each eye, face and clypcus black, the narrow ochraceous 

 spots above visible beneath on each side of base ; pronotum 

 black, anterior and lateral margins connected with a central 

 transverse fascia, ochraceous ; scutellura ochraceous, with 

 four small blackish obscure spots at base, the two central 

 spots foveate ; abdomen above carmine-red, the lateral 

 margins black ; body beneath and legs black, the tibiae 



