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variety it certainly is. The last distinguishing character is 

 that Schonherr describes the underside as black, while Thom- 

 son's harpago is yellow, except the terminal segment of the 

 abdomen. This difference is, I suspect, not one in the insects 

 themselves, but due to the process of drying. My reason for 

 suspecting this is that the underside, on a slight examination, 

 appears to be yellowish in many of my specimens, piceous 

 yellow in some, and black in others ; but, on a more careful 

 examination, I can see a yellowish tinge shining through both 

 the brown and the black; so that there is little doubt that they 

 have all been more or less yellow in life, and have acquired 

 the darker hue either from having been in spirits before being 

 dried, or through the process of drying itself. 

 This variety occurs at Old Calabar. 



Var. ry. suhdenticulatus. A variety still larger than any of 

 my specimens of harjpago^ in fact almost as large as the figure 

 of it given by Lacordaire, but with the band wholly inter- 

 rupted, exactly as in the typical p-oemorsus. It has, however, 

 the apical truncature much less emarginate ; and the little 

 tooth at each corner of the emargination in jprcemorsus is here 

 almost entirely absent, particularly at the external angle. In 

 this respect and in their size my specimens would agree better 

 than the preceding banded variety with harpago ; but this 

 only seems to fm-nish additional proof that they are all varie- 

 ties of one species. 



This variety also occui'S at Old Calabar. 



Var. S. fenestratus. In this variety the apical and median 

 black bands have coalesced, leaving only a small spot or two 

 of yellow surrounded with black. 



This is a variety of which I have a single female from Old 

 Calabar. 



Many specimens have been received of the variety which I 

 have called suhdenticulatus.'^ only a few of the variety with a 

 median band. 



12. Lycus ^olus. PI. IX. fig. 19. 

 Capite nigro, thorace subtus nigro, supra aurantiaco, disco 



longitudinaliter nigricante; metasterno nigro, postice flaves- 



cente ; abdomine flavo, medio fuscescente, apice piceo-nigro ; 



elytris aurantiacis, apice et lateribus posticis nigris, hu- 



meris breviter armatis, lateribus expansis tumidis ; antennis 



pedibusque nigris. 

 Long. 8 lin., lat. 6 lin. 



The head black ; the thorax above orange-coloured, with 

 the disk brownish black, and beneath black ; the scutellum 

 dark, and the elytra bright orange-coloured, with the apex 



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