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Show 1900.] INSECTS AND ARACHNIDS FROM SOMALILAND. 31 intervals between the rows flat and sparsely and very minutely punctulate. This species is larger and less convex than P. gagatina Makl., its prothorax is relatively a little broader, the rows of punctures on its elytra are much finer, and it is distinguished further from that species by its darker coloration and its glossy elytra. CANTHARIDJE. MYLABRIS HYPOLACHNA Gestro. Central or East Somaliland (1897). Two examples. MYLABRIS SENN^E Gestro. Central or East Somaliland (1897). Three examples MYLABRIS LATEPLAGIATA Fairm. Central or East Somaliland (1897). One example. MYLABRIS SOMALICA Thomas, sp. n. Black, opaque, rugose, clothed with short yellow pubescence interspersed with longish black hairs. The head (which has an elevated shining median longitudinal line), prothorax, and elytra all thickly and coarsely punctured ; the elytra dilated and widening towards the apex. Each elytron ornamented with two long oval basal yellow markings, the marginal one joining a transverse yellow band extending to suture, and with a second transverse band, starting from but not quite touching the suture, extending down margin and curving round across the apex of elytron back to the suture : these markings are all margined by a fine brownish-red line. Antenna? red, with the exception of the first and second joints, which are black. The underside, legs, and tarsi are all black with long yellow hairs; the nails and spurs red. This species is very similar to Mylabris hgpolachna of Gestrol in size, form, and general characteristics, but it differs in having the second transverse band continued along the outer margin and thence across the apex to the suture. Length 12 millim., breadth 4 millim. Hab. Central or East Somaliland (1897). Type in the British Museum. [M. K. THOMAS.] EPICAUTA AMETHYSTINA Makl. Somaliland (1895 or 1897). One example. CERAMBYCIDJE. M A C R O T O M A PALMATA Fabr. West Somaliland: South-west Haud, Owari, East of Milmil (March 16,1895). One example of this widely distributed African Prionid. 1 Ann. Mus. Genov. (2) xv. p. 393 (1895. |
