262 A NATURALIST IN THE TRANSVAAL. 



medio carinatis ; 7 ultimis submoniliformibus, angulo externo 

 prominulo. Scutelli verticis margines laterales incisi ac 

 crenulati. Pronoti crista quam in X. distanti minus arcuata, 

 apice crenata. Sulci 3 in ilia minus impressi, lineares, fenestris 

 parum translucidis, minoribus. Pars dorsalis tuberculis 

 minutis dentiformibus eonspersa; crista confertim granulata 

 vel verruculosa, rugosissima; lobi laterales sparse nigro- 

 yerruculati, margine postico minute denticulate. Femora 

 postica albida, fusco 3-fasciata, necnou area inf'eriore albo 

 4-maculata; margo superior spinis trigonalibus fortibus 

 armatus, genu spina apicali arniato; margo inferior valde 

 denticulatus. Segmeuta abdomiuis omuia superne dente 

 acuto prseapicali armata. 



Pictura : Facies albo et iiigro marmorata. Corpus utrinque 

 linea albida callosa, interrupta, percurrente, ornaturn. Lobi 

 laterales pronoti lineis albis irregularibus, crista et dorsum 

 vittis albis obliquis, descendentibus, notata. Metathorax 

 utrinque inferius vittis 2 albis et superius vitta obliqua in 

 1 abdominis segmento perducta. Corpus subtus pallidum. 



? . Long. 36 millim v prouot. 16, feni. post. 15. 

 Waterberg. 



Familia PYRGOMORPHID.E. 



Chrotoffonus meridionalis, Saussure, sp. n. (Tab. IV. fig. 5.) 



Gracilis, fulvo-griseus^ fusco-umbratus ; pedibus fusco-fasciatis. 

 Costa facialis a latere visa tenuiter sinuata, Laud augulatim 

 iucisa. Verticis rostrum sat prominulum, parabolicum, 

 oculos plus quam dimidia latitudine superans. Pronotum 

 margine postico transverse^ arcuato, hand lobato, tuber- 

 culis uigris 5. Prozona supra tenuiter tuberculosa; ejus 

 partes 3 ajquales. Metazona tantum rare tuberculata ac 

 subtiliter granulata. Lobi laterales fere rectangulatim dc- 

 flexi, angulo postico rectangulo vel leviter retro-producto_, 

 liaud lobato. Elytra angnstissinia, abdominis apicem attin- 

 gentia^ uigro-punctata^ seriebus tuberculorum nullis; area 

 costali paruni dilatata. Alse nigree. 



? . Long. 21 millim:, pronot. 4, fern. 9., elytr. 15, latit. 3. 



This species is characterized by its narrow form, by its elytra 

 being narrow and not tuberculated, and by its pronotum having 

 the hind border not angulated, but only arcuated, and less 

 than in Chr. hemipterus. 



Zoutpausberg. 



