24G [April. 



XOTES ON AFEICAN nEMIPTERA-HETEHOPTERA. 

 BY W. L. DISTANT. 



SCTJTATA. 



Caktharodes Rutheefordi, n. sp. 



Ochraceou8, variegated with black punctures, which are generally confluent. 

 Ilead, with apical half of central lobe and suture of lateral lobes, black. Eyes 

 pitchy. Antemise black, pilose, first joint luteous at base, first and second joints 

 longest, sub-equal, third rather shorter than fourth. Eostrum ochraceous, pitchy, 

 tip black. Pronotum with a median transverse impression. Scutellum with a trans- 

 verse impression near the base, enclosing a narrow space, which is broadest at the 

 centre ; immediately behind this it is prominently gibbous and slightly ridged ou 

 the disc, from which to the apex it is abruptly deflexed. The ground colour of the 

 anterior half of the pronotum, and of the enclosed space at the base of the scutellum, 

 slightly ferruginous. Under-side of body and legs black ; apices of tibise and basal 

 joints of tarsi thickly setose, ochreous. Long. 16 mill. ; greatest lat. 14 mill. 



Camaroons (Riitlierford) . 



Differs from C. coenosa, Westw. (the only otlier known species of 

 the genus), in being much more irregularly punctured, and in the 

 different colour of the fore and middle tibiae, which, in C. coenosa, is 

 luteous. The 4-lobed space across the pronotum of that species is 

 only faintly indicated in C. Rutherfordi, which can also be recognised 

 by the more gibbous and posteriorly deflexed scutellum. The pjgidium 

 is also slightly exserted, which character Prof. "VVestwood informs me 

 is not exhibited in either sex of C. coenosa. 



CoPTOsoMA iiiLABis, Walk., Cat. Hem.-IIet., pt. 1, p. 85, No. 18. 



= CoPTOSOMA PARTITA, ill, I. C, No. 20. 



From a careful examination of the types of the above in the Brit. 

 Mus., the only difference I can detect is in the phraseology of the de- 

 scription. 



Stenozygum sculpticolle, Stal. — Strachia sculpticoUis, Stal, O. V. A. 

 F., 1855, p. 182, 1 ; I. c, p. 59, 1. 8tenozygum sculpticolle, 

 Stal, Hem. Afr., i, p. 185, 4 (1864). 



This species is subject to great variation, and, having examined a 

 large number of specimens, extreme forms of which viewed alone 

 might mislead as to specific value, I herewith give diagnoses of the 

 varieties. ^ 



