DESCRIPTIONS OF MAL.\CODERMA.TA 597 



scribed species one is from Senegal , one from Sierra Leone , 

 and a third (the only one I have seen) from India. The females 

 of this and of allied genera including Biplocladon described by 

 myself (Notes from Leyden Mus. Vol. Y. p. 5. 1882) are yet 

 unknown. The single specimen of the present species has the 

 abdomen terminated both above and beneath by a narrow co- 

 nical segment forming as it were, a valve. 



Family MELYRIDAE. 

 Genus Xja>ius, Gtuérin. 



1. Laius Raffrayi, n. sp. 



Niger, etytris flavis dense subrugose punctalis macula circa sou- 

 tellum fascia pone medium interrupta apiceque summo nigro-vio- 

 laceis , tibiis obscure flavis. Long. 3 millim>. 



Hab. Abyssinia : Shores of Lake Tzana and plains of the Ha- 

 mazen. {Raffray). 



Head thickly and finely punctured, wider across the eyes than 

 the thorax , antennae pitchy black some of the joints succeeding 

 the basal one paler pitchy at their bases, the second joint in 

 the female? as long as the basal, curved and compressed. The 

 same joint in the male? is much more recurved, guttiform 

 yellow and shining. The thorax is truncate in front and behind, 

 narrowed from the middle to the hind angles, the surface is 

 densely punctured at the sides , less thickly in the central part ; 

 there is a wide, not distinct depression behind, and sometimes 

 an obsolete short channel. The elytra are very thickly and co- 

 arsely and confluently punctured , the crater-like punctures 

 being rather of the type called ocellated. The abdomen is yel- 

 low excepting it apex. Five of this species are contained in the 

 collection, only one of which appears to be a male. 



Genus HedLyljius. 



L Hedybius formosus, Reiche, Ferret et Galin. Voy. Abyss., 

 p. 290, t. 17, f. 8. 



