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first antennal joint »tres long», but it is not longer than in 

 many other species of Acanthaspis. I am not sure that Lept- 

 acanthaspis can be maintained in the encl as a distinct sub- 

 genus, as some species in one or the other of its characters 

 will probably prove to form transitions to it, but provisionally 

 it may be regarded as a tolerably well defined section of the 

 genus. The species described by me in 1893 from Angola 

 under the name Varus sculpticollis is not a Varus, but an A- 

 canthaspis of the subgenus LeptacantJiaspis. The short pre- 

 liminary diagnose of the type of the latter, A. orientaUs Jeann.. 

 agrees with A. sculpticolUs Bergr. 



25. Acanthaspis obscura Stål. 

 Njoro and Guaso N3dro. 



26. Tarus flavoannulatus Stål. 

 Njoro and Guaso N^dro. 



Fani. Anthocoridae. 



27. Triphleps Jeanneli Popp. (ined.). 



A mutilated specimen apparently belonging to this species 

 which will be described in Poppius' report on the Antlio- 

 coridae collected in East Africa by Alluaud and Jeannel. 



Fam. Miridae. 



[Macednus nov. gen. 



Corpus elongatum, supra subtihter rugulosum vel alu- 

 taceum, in capite et pronoto breviter suberecte puberulum, 

 in scutello et corio longius adpresse ]3ilosum. Caput nutans, 

 ante oculos oblique deorsum modice productum, ab antico 

 visum fere aeque latum ac longum, a latere visum altitudine 

 basah longius, vertice postice cuassiuscule marginato, inter 

 oculos in longitudinem impresso, fronte utrinque hneohs pa- 

 rallehs oblique transversis leviter impressis instructa, clypeo 

 a fronte impressione distincta discreto, a latere viso modice 

 prominente, nonnihil retrorsum vergente, angulo faciali sub- 

 recto, oculis altitudinem maximam capitis occupantibus, ab 



