1900.] INSECTS AND ARACHNIDS FROM SOMALILAND. 27 



Central or East Somaliland (1897), two males (C. V. A. Peel). 

 ,Type in the British Museum, co-type in Hope Coll. 



Dark brown to reddish brown in colour ; covered with an ashy- 

 o-rey pubescence. Elytra with a number of dark-brown blotches, 

 which are, however, absent in some specimens, so that the elytra 

 have a nearly uniform grey colour. Head with a Y-shaped glabrous 

 mark reaching from the antennary condyles to the occiput ; eyes 

 rather large, hemispherical, finely facetted. Prothorax about one 

 half broader than long ; its antero-lateral angles rounded and 

 obtuse ; the postero-lateral very slightly projecting and acute ; the 

 disc marked with a faint median impressed line extending from 

 the anterior margin almost to the base. Elytra with some feebly 

 raised and obtuse longitudinal costse, along which the grey 

 pubescence seems somewhat more dense than over the rest of the 

 surface. Mesosternum with a small projecting process near the 

 middle of its anterior margin, this process being fringed with 

 fulvous hairs at its sides and apex. Posterior margin of the fifth 

 abdominal sternite of the male bisinuate. 



This species, though very distinct from Genecerus cervinus Walk., 

 appears to be truly congeneric with it, agreeing as it does in all 

 essential points of structure. The genus Genecerus, stated by 

 "Walker to be allied to Plastocerus, and by subsequent authors 

 placed in the family Cebrionidoe, seems to me to belong to the 

 family Dascillidce, in which I should place it near Anorus Lee. 



Lycid-E. 

 Lyots ampliattjs Fahr. 



North-west Somaliland, Hargasia, April 25-28, 1895. One 

 example. This species is found also in East Africa as well as in 

 Natal and the Cape of Good Hope. 



Cleridjs. 

 Necrobia rupipes De Geer. 

 Central or East Somaliland (1897). Three specimens. 



BoSTRYCHIDuE. 



Apate terebrans Pall. 



West Somaliland, Bun Jijjiga, July 15, 1895. Three examples. 

 This species occurs also in West Africa from the Gold Coast 

 to Angola, in Natal, Nyasaland, and East Africa. 



BOSTRYCHXTS sp. 



Central or East Somaliland (1897). Two specimens. 



Tenebrionid.2;. 



Zophosis arohatum Gestro, Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. (2) xv. p. 258. 



Central or East Somaliland (1897). The two examples obtained 

 by Mr. Peel are somewhat larger than the type from Archeisa 



