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Show 1890.] ON COLEOPTERA FROM CENTRAL AFRICA. 479 black; claval area and apex of corium and the membrane black connexivum luteous with black spots ; head reddish ochraceous, with the base narrowly black ; rostrum black, its base reddish ochraceous ; body beneath black ; margins of sternum, marginal and central discal spots to abdomen luteous ; legs black, apices of femora and bases of tibiae reddish ochraceous (anterior legs and the antennae mutilated). Long. 15 millim. Allied to S. vilticollis, Reut., but differing from the description of that species in the colour of the connexivum, legs, &c. Subfam. ACANTHASPIDIN^E. 45. ACANTHASPIS BILINEOLATA. Reduvius bilineolatus, Pal. Beauv. Ins. p. 14, Hem. t. 1. f. 3 (HOMOPTERA. Fam. CicADiDiE. 4G. PffiCILOPSALTRIA POLYDORUS. Oxypleura polydorus, Walk. List Horn. i. p. 32. 14 (1850). 47. PLATYPLEURA STALINA. Platypleura stalina, Butl. Cist. Ent. i. p. 193. n. 39 (1874). Fam. CERCOPID-E. 48. PTYELUS GROSSUS. Cercopis grossa, Fabr. Ent. Syst. iv. p. 47. 1 (1/94). 3. On some Coleopterous Insects collected by Mr. W. Bonny in the Aruwimi Valley. By H. W . BATES, F.R.S., F.L.S. [Eeceived June 13, 1890.] The following is a list, with descriptions of new species, Coleoptera belonging to the tribes Geodephaga, Lamellicornia, and Longicornia, collected by Mr. Bonny during the recent Expedition for the Relief of Emin Pasha. Mr. Bonny informs me that they were all taken at Yambuya Camp and on the march through the forest-region towards Albert JNyanza, between the months of October 1887 and November 1888, and that the collection is only a remnant of that originally made, the greater portion of it having been destroyed for want of suitable appliances for preserving and storing the specimens. The collection, comprising examples of only 73 species, is clearly merely a fraction of what really exists in the forest-region, similar areas in other tropical countries being known to yield at least ten times the number of species of the same families. The material is therefore not sufficient for a satisfactory estimate of the relations of |
