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Show 1900.] INSECTS A N D ARACHNIDS P R O M SOMALILAND. 33 vitta, and a submarginal vitta on each elytron reaching from the middle to the apex, where it joins the sutural vitta, cinnamon-coloured ; a small punctiform spot at the extreme base, two spots in front of the middle and two behind the middle of each elytron, snow-white ; the inner spot of the anterior pair larger than the outer, elongate-oval in shape, and marked in the middle with a narrow brown spot; the outer spot of the same pair emarginate, in front; the two spots of the posterior pair elongate, wdth the inner one commencing before the outer and coalescing witu it behind. Body underneath with an ashy-grey pubescence along the middle, fulvous brown towards the sides ; legs brown, more or less suffused with grey at the base and on the ventral side. Inter-coxal process of the mesosternum very feebly tubercled in the middle. Last abdominal segment feebly and sinuately emarginate at the apex. Antenna? longer (by the last three or four joints) than the body, third joint half as long again as the fourth. CEROPLESIS REVOILI Fairm. West (April 16 to Aug. 7, 1895) and North-west Somaliland, Galadi (Oct. 4,1897). Three examples, two from the latter locality. CERATITES JASPIDEUS Serv. Somaliland (1895 or 1897). Ten specimens. This species occurs also in West and East Africa and in Abyssinia. CALOTHVRZA PAULI (Fairm.). Anoplostetha pauli Fairm. C. B. Soc. Ent. Bel^. 1884, p. 124; Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1887, p. 338. West Somaliland, Bularli (May 24, 1895). One specimen. In this species and in the closely allied South-African A. jardinei White tbe claws of the tarsi are divaricate, and the scape of the antenna? is entirely devoid of a cicatrix. Both species are out of place in Anoplostetha and should be referred to the genus Calothyrza Thorns., wuth which they agree in all essential points of structure. A third African species of Calothyrza has been described by Dr. Gestro (Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. (2) xv. p. 423), the remaining species of this genus being the two Indian forms-C. sehestedi Fabr. Ent. Syst. Suppl. p. 146 (-C. margaritifera Thorns.) and C. margaritifera Westw. CROSSOTUS PLUMICORNIS Serv. North-west Somaliland, Hargaisa (April 25 to 28, 1895). One example. This species is found in Senegambia, in East Africa and Natal, an example from the last-mentioned locality forming the type of White's C. natalensis. CROSSOTUS sp. Central or East Somaliland (1897). Oue somewhat rubbed female specimen. PROC. ZOOL. SOC-1900, No. III. 3 |