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the middle very much dilated" (elytris pone medium valde 

 dilatatis). It is true that they are very much dilated behind 

 the middle, but so are they before the middle ; and if the 

 meaning were " very much dilated, most so behind the middle," 

 then it would be correct ; but I rather incline to treat this as 

 an inaccurate tm-n of expression. There is no African Lycns 

 that I know of, except this, which has any of the thighs 

 toothed. 



A single male of this species is all that I have seen from 

 Old Calabar. Boheman's description was made from specimens 

 taken by Wahlberg near the River Limpopo ; so that we have 

 here the same species apparently ranging across the whole 

 continent. The Abyssinian habitat, resting on its being the 

 species described by Guerin, must be cancelled. 



6. Lycus subcostatus. PI. IX. fig. 8. 



$ . Niger, supra flavus ; thoracis disco, scutello elytrorumque 

 apice nigris, lateribus abdominis flavis vel piceis ; elytris 

 sublinearibus, quadricostatis, costa secmida et quarta magis 

 quam ceteris elevatis, humeris horizontaliter costatis. 

 Long. 5| lin., lat. 2| lin. 



^ ignotus. 



Similar in appearance to the female of L. immersus orfoUa- 

 ceus, but with the following differences : — the disk of the thorax 

 black ; the elytra with four cost£e slightly raised, the second 

 raised a good deal more than the rest, and the fourth next in 

 degree ; the shoulders slightly expanded, not tumid, but flat, 

 and with the margin costate ; the black apex of the elytra 

 narrowest at the suture. The antennse are broader than in L. 

 foUaceus^ and with a tendency to flabellation. Male unknown. 



Only one specimen received. 



7. Lycus scajpularis. PI. IX. fig. 9. 



L. palliato affinis et similariter coloratus ; elytris longioribus, 

 humeris parum minus inflatis ; subtus fuscescens et abdo- 

 mine testaceo. 

 Long. 8 lin., lat. 3j lin. 



Closely allied to L. paJUatus of Fabricius and to L. pallio- 

 latus of Schonherr, which are probably, as the latter divined, 

 male and female of the same species. This is still longer and 

 proportionally narrower than either, and has the underside 

 fuscescent, except the abdomen, which is testaceous instead of 

 black ; the shoulders are more restricted in their inflation ; the 



