1877.] 75 



This insect has long been known under the name AmjJi/cus gulti- 

 fer, Dej., but I have not met with any description of it. 



LONGTICOENIA. 

 CUBAMBYCIDJS. 



Syllitfs bipunctattjs, sp. n. 

 Elongatns, rufo-hrunneus ; thorace elongato, confertim ruguloso-jmndu- 

 lato, ante angtdos posticos paulo ampliato; elytris brunneis, creherrime fortiter 

 punctatis, singulis lineis duabus elevatis, flams, medio distantibiis ornatis, 

 guttd alhd notatis ; pedibus 4 jMsticis obscuriorihus. Long. 4 lin. 



Closely allied to S. grammicus, Newm., but relatively shorter, especially in the 

 elytra. The elytra are distinctly more coarsely punctured, the two yellow lines are 

 more suddenly and more widely separated behind the middle, the line next the 

 suture nearly touches it in the middle. Between the lines at the widest part there 

 is a round white spot. 



Sah. : Queensland. 

 British Museum : Maj/, 1877. 



NOTES ON AFRICAN HEMIPTERA-EBTEROPTERA. 

 BT W. L. DISTANT. 



Cetptaceus comes, Tab. (var.). 



This variety is unicolorous above, being shining olivaceous, thickly 

 and finely punctured, and differs only in the absence of yellowish 

 markings above from the typical form of C. carries. It appears, from 

 the examination of a large number of specimens of both sexes, to be 

 very constant in the localities mentioned below, but as the type was 

 recorded from Guinea, and has been received from Calabar, the variety 

 I describe may prove to be of a seasonal or dimorphic character. 



Hab. : Mongo-ma-lobah. Camaroons (D. Gr. Kutherford). 



Ceyptaceus kioetcollis. Sign. 



In his "Enumeratio Hemipterorum," part iii, p. 33, Dr. Still has 

 proposed a new genus, '''' Anoplogonius " for this species, the characters 

 for which, in the absence of reference, I take to be enumerated in his 

 Hem. Afr., i, p. 39-ffa ; I, however, prefer following him in the last 

 mentioned work, and include C. nigricollis, in the same genus with 

 C. comes, Fab. 



The late Mr. Walker, in his Cat. Het., i, pp. 11 and 12, describes 

 two species, C. erotyloides and C. silphoides, which, by an examination 

 of the types in the Brit. Mus., I have satisfied myself are both varieties 



