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line a little distance down first or second row of scales. 

 Cliin variegated chocolate and cream -colour. Each ventral 

 and pair of subcaudals with a pair of large cream-coloured 

 spots, semicircular on the ventrals, pentagonal on the sub- 

 caudals, form.ing two straight longitudinal series. 



Habitat. The campas near Castro, on the R. de Tibeira^ 

 Parana, S.E. Brazil, probably in moist places. 



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a. Ventral shields ; b. Tail. Nat. size. 



Food. Tlie stomach of the larger specimen contained a 

 rare Coecilian, Chthonerpeton indistinctum, Reinh. & Lutk., 

 hitherto only represented in the Museum^s collection by 

 two specimens from Porto Alegre and Camapuan River 

 respectively. Unfortunately, the posterior half is partially 

 destroyed by digestion, but the head, including the highly 

 characteristic palate etc., is in quite good condition. 



XXIII. — Notes SUV les Gercopides africains. 

 Par Dr. V. LallemaND. 



Locris marshalliy sp. n. 



Thorax, tete, pronotum et ecusson noir (quelquefois une 



petite tache rougeatre pres du bord posterieur du pronotum). 



Elytres rouge-brique, teintees le^^rement de jaune dans les 



deux tiers anterieurs, noiratres sur le tiers posterieur ; au 



