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Rhinaulax analis Fabr. 



Cercopis analis, Fabricius. Ent. Syst. IV. 49. 7. (1794). 



id. Syst. Rhyng. 93. 23. (1803). 

 Cercopis bicolor, Fabr. Ent. Syst. Suppl. 523. 11. (1798). 



id. Svst. Rhvng. 93. 26. (1803). 

 Cercopis trifiirca. Thunb. Hem. Rostr. Cap. 1. 4. (1822). 

 Tetligonia bicolor, Thunb. Hem. Rostr. Cap. 1. 7. (1822). 

 Rhinaulax maculipennis, Am. & Serv. Hist. Hem. 561. (1843). 

 Rhinaulax analis Stal. Hem. Afr. IV. 65. (1866). 

 Rhinaulax analis Distant. Ins. Transv. IX. 227. (1908). 

 Rhinaulax analis Walk. List. Hom. B. Mus. Suppl. 667. (1851). 



General color black, with the elytra red, or varied. Length 



of female and male, 8 mm. Breadth 3 mm. 



Vertex black, short, the anterior margin rounded, three times as 

 broad as its length. Ocelli black, located closer to one another than to 

 the eyes. Eyes oval, grayish black in color. Face black, the frons 

 tumid, flattened on the middle, with numerous transverse furrows; 

 clypeus produced, flat; rostrum long, black. Pronotiun black, finely 

 punctate, with indistinct rugae, much broader than the head; a median 

 longitudinal line; length about two and a half times as long as the 

 vertex; convex above. Scutellum long, the apex sharp, depressed on 

 the middle, with indistinct transverse striations; not quite as long as 

 the pronotum. Sternum of thorax black. Elytra red at base, yellowish 

 towards the apex black along the inner margin. Abdotnen black above, 

 beneath black, with the posterior edges of the segments red; red at base. 

 Genitalia of male rather obscure; last ventral segment about twice as 

 long as the penultimate; plates long, rounded. 



Habitat: Caffraria (Castelnau), Cape Colony (Distant), 

 Post Elizabeth, Simonstown (Oxford Museum), Rosebank 

 C. P. (Brain). 



Rhinaulax analis war. bicolor. 



Black, with the elytra yellowish green, with black along the inner 

 margin and brownish on the apical area. Abdomen black, with yel- 

 lowish at base. Last ventral segment of female reddish; pygofers long 

 and flattened, the ovipositor a little longer. 



Habitat: Newlands, C. P. (Brain) and as above. 



This species is most variable, Stal having described no less 

 than three different varieties. The variety 'bicolor' seems to 

 have a very general distribution over Cape Province, but is as 

 yet not recorded from the neighboring provinces. 



Genus Locris Stal. 



Frons very tumid, convex, prominent in front and below; 

 viewed from the side, neither compressed nor angular in form 

 unless very obsolete; provided with a distinct carina on the 



