Some South African, Rhyncliota in South African Museum. 47 



NEOVARUS LUTEIPENNIS, sp. n. 



$ . Black ; lateral areas of tegmina from base to beyondjmiddle, 

 ochraceous ; membrane piceous ; antennae piceous, pilose, first joint 

 passing apex of head, 

 second longest ; head cen- 

 trally longitudinally sul- 

 cate from in front of eyes 

 to near apex ; ocelli large 

 and somewhat ochraceous ; 



Vi 



w 



scutellum with a short 

 spine on each lateral mar- 

 gin and a longer and 

 slightly upwardly curved 

 spine at apex ; lateral mar- 

 gins of connexivum more or 

 less pilose ; membrane not 

 quite reaching abdominal 

 apex ; rostrum piceous, first 

 joint slightly shorter than 

 the second ; prosternum 

 distinctly longitudinally 

 centrally sulcate ; base of anal segment beneath ochraceous. 



Long., $ , 22 mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony ; Hanover. 



NEOVARUS LUTEIPENNIS. 



GENUS HOLOTEICHIUS. 



Holotrichius, Burm., Handb. Ent. ii. p. 247 (1835). 

 Type, H. tenebrosus, Burm. 



HOLOTEICHIUS SEGMENTAEIUS, sp. n. 



5 . Body, first joint of antennae and legs greyishly pilose, and 

 above more or less longly fuscously setose, head longer than 

 pronotum, a distinct tubercle on post-ocular area near base, lateral 

 margins of ante-ocular area distinctly setose ; eyes moderately 

 small, longer than broad ; rostrum pitchy brown, the basal joint 

 greyishly pilose and shortly setose ; antennae with the first joint 

 longer than the ante-ocular area of the head and distinctly longer 

 than the third joint, longly setose, second and third joints pale 

 brownish, their apices piceous ; pronotum with the basal margin- 

 including the lateral angles about twice as broad as the anterior 



4 



