602 H. S. GORHAM 



letius, elytris minus crebre, subrugose fortius punctatis, pedibus 

 abdomineque rufis, antennis fulms clava fusca. Long. 8 millim. 



Hob. Abyssinia: Bogos, Keren (0. Beccari). 



The upper side of this beautiful species is of an azure blue , 

 the underside dark steel-blue, the abdomen, legs, base of the 

 antennae and palpi red. The antennae have the club broad and 

 abrupt the three terminal joints are connate gradually increa- 

 sing in width, the terminal one being nearly twice as wide as 

 long, cultriform, not very much compressed. 



The maxillary palpi have their apical joint ovate, acuminate 

 but not sharply so , the labial palpi have the last joint widened 

 and hatchet-shaped but not transversely so. The eyes are fi- 

 nely facetted, deeply and angularly cut out. The thorax is 

 oblong , roughened with obsolete confluent punctures ; much as 

 in many species of Trichodes, it is evenly convex and rounded 

 at the sides, the anterior constriction is evident but not deep, 

 the posterior simply basal. The elytra have the rough coarse 

 punctuation obscurely serial, the rows being often confluent, 

 especially towards the apex. The abdomen consists simply of 

 five segments, in which I cannot find any sexual character in 

 the single specimen before me. I have no doubt this species is 

 allied to Clerus lepidus, Walker (Col. I. K. Lord. Egypt, 1871) 

 Waterhouse (Aid, Pt. 10, t. 76) and that they constitute a genus 

 allied to Trichodes and perhaps not capable of distinction from 

 it , but upon the very few specimens I have had an opportu- 

 nity of examining at present it would be unwise to come to a 

 conclusion. I only associate this insect with Philocalus tempo- 

 rarily, for I have not seen the type o± that genus (P. succinctus, 

 Kl.) which was described from a Cape of Good Hope species ; 

 but it is observable that two, perhaps three species of Tri- 

 chodes are found at the Cape, and that in this insect and ap- 

 parently in C. lepidus Walker (nee Khig), the club of the an- 

 tennae is much more closely built, than in Trichodes aulicus 

 Spin, or the other Cape Trichodes which I possess. A single 

 specimen only of this very beautiful species was sent me by 

 M. Gestro for determination. 



