1892.1 187 



A. antevolenti, B. White (e California) proximus videtur, statura angustiore, 

 colore hemielytrorum et pedum, rostro longioi'e, structura insigni pronoti prsecip- 

 ueque marginibus calli carinulatis mox distinctus. Caput pronoto distincte brevius, 

 apicem versus sat longe productum, latitudine cum oculis circiter \ longius. An- 

 tennae capite et pronoto simul sumtis nonnihil breviores. Pronotum basi margine 

 laterali nonnihil latius, parte postica disci callo oequelonga, sub-laevi, margine basali 

 late profunde sinuato. Scutellum parte apicali depressa transversim rugulosa. 

 Hemielytra abdomen sat longe superantia, embolio apicem versus arapliato, margine 

 laterali cunei eodem margine embolii fere duplo breviore. Pectus et abdomen piceo- 

 nigra, nitida, hoc apice pilis exsertis instructum. 



Species legit D. Sikora, communicavit D. Dr. Bergroth. 



Helsingfors : May, 1892. 



NOTES ON ETHIOPIAN RHYNCHOTA. 

 BY W. L. DISTANT, F.E.S. 



Fam. PENTATOMID^. 



Sub.-Fam. SCUTELLERIN^. 



SOLENOSTHEDIUM MADAGASCARIENSIS, n. Sp. 



Body above and below dark purplish-black ; eyes ochraceous, their posterior 

 margins blackish ; scutellum with three ochraceous spots at apex, placed submargin- 

 ally, not transversely. Legs and antennae castaneous ; rostrum castaneous, streaked 

 with black. Long., 15 mm. 



Hab., Madagascar. 



This species can be readily d-istiDguit^hed from any of the varieties 

 of the African >S'. litigerum, Thunb., or S. Schestedii, Fabr., by the 

 spots at the apex of the scutellum being placed submarginally and not 

 transversely ; it has also the scutellum less attenuated posteriorly 

 than in those species, and in shape approaches the oriental species, S. 

 ruhro-pitnctatum, Guer. 



Sub.-Fam. ASOPIN^. 



DOLYCOEIS KUTHERFORDI, 11. Sp. 



Body above shining pale reddish ; head, two large oblique discal fasciae to 

 pronotum, basal half of scutellum, and a transverse, oblique, subquadrate spot on 

 corium near apex of scutellum, bright shining indigo-blue. Membrane blackish, with 

 the apical margin greyish. Legs bluish-black ; base and a subapical annulation to 

 femora, a large central annulation to tibiae and bases of the tai'sal joints ochraceous. 

 Body beneath (imperfectly seen, owing to specimen being carded) bluish-black ; 

 lateral areas of sternum, and margins and apex of abdomen ochraceous. 



Long., 7 mm. 



