THE ENTOMOLOGIST 



Vol. XXXVIII.] JULY, 19 05. [No. 50G. 



DESCRIPTION OF A NEW SPECIES OF LYGMIDM 

 FROM SOUTH AFRICA. 



By W. L. Distant. 



Some time since a Lygreid was sent to me from the Cape 

 Colony which was described as "injurious to peach." Many 

 occupations prevented my identifying it at the time, and I was 

 recently reminded of my obligation by an enquiry from Mr. F. V. 

 Theobald, who had received the species from another African 

 habitat, where it was destructive to " cotton seed." I therefore 

 examined the insect, which appears to be undescribed. 



Oxi/carenus exitiosus, sp. n. 



Black ; posterior lobe of pronotum and corium testaceous ; a black 

 spot at posterior angle to corium, and the lateral margins to corium 

 sometimes distinctly lutescent ; membrane pale grey hyaline ; body 

 beneath (imperfectly seen in the carded specimens from which this 

 description is made) black ; the abdomen beneath — excluding apex 

 and a central longitudinal medial fascia — sanguineous ; posterior 

 angular areas of prosternum testaceous ; the coxae, a central annula- 

 tion to intermediate tibia?, and the posterior tibiae — excluding base 

 and apex — luteous ; head and pronotum rugosely punctate, scutellum 

 finely punctate, clavus longitudinally punctate, corium very finely and 

 obscurely punctate ; membrane extending beyond the apex of the 

 abdomen ; antenna? moderately robust, second joint longest and slender 

 towards base, third and fourth subequal in length, third distinctly 

 narrowed at base ; head and pronotum laterally rather longly pilose. 

 Long. 3 to 4 millim. 



Hab. Cape Town; Seapoint. "South Africa" (Mansell 

 Weale). 



ENTOM. — JULY, 1905. 



