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Show 1900.] INSECTS A N D ARACHNIDS P R O M 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-grey 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 costa?, 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 cougeneric 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 Cebrionidce, seems to me to belong to the family Dascillidce, in which I should place it near Anorus Lee. LYCIDJE. LYCUS AMPLIATUS 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. CLERIDJE. NECROBIA RUFIPES De Geer. Central or East Somaliland (1897). Three specimens. BOSTRYCHID^E. 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. BOSTRYCHUS sp. Central or East Somaliland (1897). Two specimens. TENEBRIONIDiE. ZOPHOSIS AROMATUM 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 |