NO. 2150. SOME NEW IIETEROPTEROUS HEM TPTERA— BERG ROTH. 231 



anteociilar part of the head, scarcely passing the antenniferous tuber- 

 cles, and shorter than the second joint which does not reach the 

 posterior margin of the eyes, and the third joint longer than the 

 first and second together. 



SCHIDIUM LEMUR, new species. 



Narrow, linear, very finely alutaceons, not granulated, black ; head 

 above with a luteous streak on each side immediately behind the 

 transverse impression; abdomen beneath brownish black sprinkled 

 with small pale yellow spots, especially along the median line; 

 rostrum piceous, with the articulations of the joints whitish yellow; 

 antennae castaneous; fore legs piceous black, the spines of the femora 

 (except their extreme tip) and a median annulation to the tibiae 

 whitish; middle legs castaneous, their femora with four and their 

 tibiae in the basal half with three narrow whitish rings more or 

 less interrupted beneath; hind legs mutiliated, but judging from the 

 still existing basal half of the femora colored as the middle legs. 

 Head with the postocular part scarcely constricted in the middle; 

 first joint of antennae somewhat longer than head and thorax to- 

 gether; first joint of rostrum a trifle shorter than anteocular part of 

 head and nearly twice the length of second joint. Prothorax two 

 and a half times longer than head; mesothorax distinctly shorter 

 than prothorax and a little longer than metathorax. Abdomen half 

 as long again as head and thorax together, parallel from its base to 

 apex of fifth segment, sixth segment somewhat widening from base 

 to apex ; female dorsal genital plate a little shorter than sixth seg- 

 ment, a little narrowing from the base to the truncate apex, longi- 

 tudinally ridged in the middle, ventral sutures curved forward. 

 Fore legs : Coxae a little shorter than head and prothorax together ; 

 femora somewhat longer than coxae, their unarmed basal part a' 

 little longer than the spined apical part ; tibiae very finely denticu- 

 lated beneath ; tarsi not reaching the first long spine of the femora. 



Length. — Female, 27 mm. 



Type.— Cat. No. 20150, U.S.N.M. Guinea (Mount Coffee, Liberia, 

 R.P. Currie). 



Allied to Sch. inatercula Bergroth, from which it differs princi- 

 pally by smaller size, shorter metathorax, and differently shaped 

 female dorsal genital plate. 



Note.— In my description of nudercula the mesothorax is by some 

 lapsus said to be " prothorace nonnihil longior " ; it is a little shorter 

 than the prothorax. 



