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3. Like the variety cosUpennii, except that the pro- 

 thorax is bicolorous. 



4. Like the variety rufipermis, except that the prothorax 

 is bicolorous. One specimen that might be referred to this 

 form has the red areas of the pronotum greatly reduced in 

 size and not extending to the base. 



PSEUDOLYCUS HAEMOPTERUS, Guer. 



Var. elegantulus, Blackb. 

 Var. puberulus, Blackb. 

 Var. montanus, Cart. 



There is nothing in the original description of 

 haemopterus to distinguish it from some forms of haemorr- 

 hoidalis (i.e., var. rufipennis, with the suture distinctly 

 dark), but as Blackburn has identified a species as haemop- 

 ferus, that agrees with the description and is certainly 

 distinct from haemorrhoidalis, I shall presume his identifica- 

 tion to be correct till proved to the contrary: But this species 

 is also extremely variable in colour, and may be similarly 

 divided into sections by the prothorax being unicolorous or 

 bicolorous. The sexes are sharply defined by the antennae, 

 those of the female having the third to fifth joints strongly, 

 and the sixth and seventh moderately inflated, whilst in 

 the male no joint is conspicuously inflated. ( 41 > The male 

 has the apical segment of the abdomen strongly sculptured, 

 while in the female it is simple; the male also is generally 

 smaller and thinner than the female, and with the prothorax 

 distinctly longer. Considerable variation occurs in the sculp- 

 ture of the prothorax; there is generally (especially on the 

 narrower forms) a conspicuous median carina extending from 

 the apex almost to the base, but on many specimens not even 

 extending to the middle ; whilst on several specimens (especi- 

 ally the wider ones) it is represented by a flattened space only, 

 a median carina being completely absent. There is always 

 a large depression on each side towards the apex, and gener- 

 ally a smaller one (sometimes completely absent, or at least 

 concealed by clothing) on each side of the middle of the base ; 

 the two sub-basal ones are occasionally connected together, 

 and occasionally the two on each side are obscurely connected 

 together. On all the forms the antennae have the eighth- 

 tenth joints pale at the base (on the tenth the pale basal por- 

 tion is often scarcely defined), and the eleventh semidouble, 

 but apparently never quite distinctly divided into two joints, 



v4i) Blackburn correctly noted the sexual differences in the 

 antennae, but these were incorrectly noted by Carter for montanus : 

 there are several pairs (taken in cop.) before me. 



