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and Malayan regions. Another African species, H. loaferhoicsii, also 

 from the Gaboon, was added by Kirkaldy (Trans. Ent. 8oc. Lond., 

 1902, p. 265) ; a third, from Assinia, H. aUuaudi, was subsequently 

 described by me (Ofv. Einska Vet. Soc. Forh., xlvii. No. 1895, p. 1) ; 

 and a fourth, from the Congo, has now been sent me for determina- 

 tion by the well-known Belgian Hemipterologist, Mr. H. Schouteden, 

 after whom I have named this interesting addition to the Ethiopian 

 Capsid Fauna. 



Helopeltis schoutedeni, sp. n. 



PaUide flavens, jpedihus concolorihua, vertice, medio frontis, oculis anten- 

 nisque nigris, his ima ban aHiculi primi pallida ; hemielytris cum memhrana 

 nigricantihus, dimidio hasali clavi, corio a hasi ultra medium, externe longlus 

 quam interne, limbo tofo later ali cuneoque pallide jiaventibus, hoc sccpe non- 

 nihil fuscescevte ; articulo ultimo tarsorum vel tarsls totis fuscis ; cornu 

 scutellari pronoto longitudine subcequali , Jeviter retromum nutante, subrecto 

 vel levissime retrorsum curvato, apice capitulato. 



$ ? , long., 7|— 8J, lat., \\ — If mm. 



Hab. : Belgian Congo ; Bikoro 



H. iergrothi, Keut., minor et gracilior, antennis breviovibus, gracilioribus aliter- 

 que constructis, colore multo pallidiore et dilutiore, cljpeo lateribusque frontis 

 pallidioribus optima distinctus. Caput basi pronoti eirciter -| angustius, a latere 

 visum altitudine distincte brevius. Rostrum coxas intermedias pauUo superans, 

 apice nigro. Antennae, articulo primo excepto, pilosulae, articulo primo margine 

 basali pronoti eirciter duplo longiore, apice incrassato, secundo primo eirciter 

 dimidio longiore, tertio secundo fere f, quarto tertio paullo magis quam duplo 

 brevioi'e (longitudo articuli priini fere 3,secundi fere 5, tertii fere 3, quarti If mm.). 

 Pronotum unicolor, versus apicem leviter convexo-declive, strictura apicali oculo a 

 supero viso fere seque crassa. Scutellum cornu apice subtruncato. fleraielytra 

 abdomen ^ vel f apicalibus superantia. Femora levissima curvata, apice incras- 

 sata. Tibiae omnes rectse. 



Helsingfora : March, 1906. 



NOTE ON THE G-ENUS NEOLOBOPHOEA, Scudder. 

 BY MALCOM BURR, B.A., F.L.S., F.E.S. 



In the Paris collection of earwigs there is a small series of a 

 new and distinct species of Neolohophora, which I inadvertently 



