238 r September, 



^ . Pronotum with the lateral angles obtusely and somewhat nodulosely 

 rounded, and with their apices narrowly pale ochraceous. Connexivum ochraceous, 

 spotted with castaneous. Head beneath, sternum and legs pale ochraceous ; ab- 

 domen castaneous, the central callosity and the extreme lateral margins pale 

 ochraceous. 



$ . Pronotum with a central transverse fasciate series of dark punctures, the 

 lateral angles subacutely prominent, their apices and anterior lateral margins black, 

 their posterior lateral areas castaneous. Connexivum spotted with castaneous, ex- 

 posed margins of the abdomen above with the segments margined with black. Body 

 beneath and legs ochraceous ; the tibiae orange-yellow ; the lateral areas of the abdo- 

 men and the pronotal angles beneath infuscated. 



Long., including apex of membrane, (^ , 6, ? , 7 mm. Lat., c? , 4, 9,5 mm. 



Hah. : Natal, Durban {E. Hunt, South African Museum and 

 Collection Distant). 



ORTnOSCHIZOPS PLAGOSA, n. sp. 



Body, above, ochraceous, striped and punctured with brownish. Head, with 

 the margins of the central lobes, black ; eyes black, with their inner margins ochra- 

 ceous ; antennae ochraceous. Pronotum with four broad longitudinal series, and a 

 central straight linear series of brown punctures ; lateral margins and pronotal 

 angles blackish. Scutellum with a central linear and six more irregular series of 

 brown punctures, two of these series being thickened before apex in a macular 

 manner. Cormm thickly covered with brown punctures, the veins and lateral 

 margins ochraceous. Membrane pale fuscous, the venation pitchy. Connexivum 

 spotted with black on each side of the segmental incisures. Body beneath and legs 

 ochraceous ; head beneath with a patch of black punctures on each lateral lobe ; 

 sternum with two waved pale fasciae margined with dark punctures on each side ; 

 the whole sternal area punctured with brown. Abdomen very thickly and finely 

 punctured with brown, a series of pale stigmatal yellow spots and the connexivum 

 marked as above. 



The lateral lobes of the head are longer than the central, and almost obliquely 

 meet in front of it ; the lateral margins of the pronotum are strongly spinous, and 

 the angles are prominently pi'oduced and spinous ; the apices of the corium are 

 moderately rounded and slightly sinuate. I^ong., 11 mm. 



Hah. : South Africa ; Hex Eiver Valley. 

 Allied to O. hians, Stal. 



PODODUS STEIATUS, n. SJ?. 



Ochraceous, thickly, coarsely and irregularly punctured and mottled with black. 

 Head more thickly punctured in front than behind, and with two broad, dark basal 

 fasciae, the anterior margin hirsute. Antennae pale brownish, basal half of the 

 2nd joint and base of the 3rd ochraceous ; 2nd and 3rd joints hirsute. Pronotum 

 with a deep, central, transverse striation, coarsely and thickly punctate, the lateral 

 areas paler in hue, the lateral margins hirsute. Scutellum with a series of small 

 ochraceous spots on basal margin, and an irregular elongate spot of the same colour 



