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genus. M. Fairmaire has described some species as to be 

 attributed to Laius, from Madagascar, JSTossi Be. T have not seen 

 them, but I suspect it will be found that there are such radical 

 differences as to preclude such an association ; and he does not 

 mention enlarged joints. Laius, it may be observed, was founded 

 upon a female example from Australia, and ought strictly to be 

 suppressed for Westwood's name Jlegadeuterus, which at least 

 expresses the fact that the second joint of the antennae is enlarged 

 in the male sex. That he included other insects in his genus is no 

 reason for suppressing the name, but only for confining it to the 

 type, and to such as can be associated with it. 



Hedonistes l^tus, sp. n. 



Brevis, nigei^ 2^^^^^^ hrevi chierea erecta vestitus, valde jiitnctaias ; 

 elytris subqioadratis, grosse et covfiuenter punctatis, fascia lata, 

 ad marginein latissima, apiceque Icete sanguineis ; ejnstomate, 

 labi'o ad apicem et anteniiarimi hasi rufis. Long. 4*5-5 

 7iiiUi7n. c? 2 • 

 Mas, cajnte eroso-excavato, ad antennarum basin ■utrinque 

 carinato eleiiato, basi triangular iter elevato, elevatione in Qnedio 

 sulcata, antice ciliata, bicirro'sa ; antennarain articulis basali 

 quinto et sexto amjjliatis. 

 Femina, fronte jjlnncc, antennis sin^ylicibus. 

 Hab. Willowmore, Cape Colony (Braims). 



Head and thorax black, thickly and the lattei' lathei" coai-sely 

 punctured; the antennae have four joints at the base red, the rest 

 black, the apical joint is elongate, the intermediate joints in the 

 male are longer than wide, in the female about as long as wide, 

 not serrate but rather triangular. The thoi'ax is shining, not 

 wider than the head, and much narrower than the elytra at the 

 base, somewhat cordate, with the margins a little reflexed. The 

 elytra are blue-black, with a fascia which is interrupted at the 

 suture, but very broad on the margin, of a fine blood-red, and 

 their apex is rather broadly margined with the same colour ; the 

 basal side of the fascia is produced along the mai'gin so as to 

 surround the shoulder ; their surface is uniformly, coarsely, and 

 in places confluently punctured, honeycombed. The legs are 

 black. 



Eight examples, consisting equally of each sex, were sent me 

 by Dr. H. Brauns, by whom they were obtained at Willowmore 

 in Cape Colony. 



E R o T Y L I D ^. 



Amblyscelis hjemorrhous Gorh. Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. 1885, 

 p. 326 ; Ann. & Mag. N. H. ser. 7, v. p. 90 (1900). 



Hab. Bothaville, Orange R. Colony. 



Excepting that the brownish-yellow colour is more diffused in 

 two examples fi'om Bothaville, so that one is wholly brown with 

 darker strife, and the other has a not very well-defined yellow 

 vitta, formed by the humeral spot extending to meet the apical 



