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margin, each bearing a similar, but rather longer and stouter hair. 

 Byes, bright red. 



Total length of antennae, 1'20 mm. ; that of sixth joint alone 

 0-50 mm. Third, fourth, and fifth joints slightly imbricated ; sixth 

 joint ringed, very long and slender. All these joints blackish. 



Eostrum black, extending just beyond the second coxa?. 



Cornicles, cylindrical, curved, and somewhat expanded at the 

 orifices. Distal third blackish. Length, O'-iO mm. 



Cauda, obtuse, bearing two pairs of long clavate hairs. Legs, 

 medium, fairly stout, furnished with a few long stiff hairs. Femoral 

 and tibial joints black. 



This Myzux seems to resemble somewhat Myzus rihis, par- 

 ticularly in the oval body form,. obtuse cauda, colour of eyes, 

 and in the distinctive, club-shaped hairs ; but it differs from 

 that species in its much smaller size and longer cornicles. I 

 suggest that the specific name of carthusianus be given to this 

 aphis, from the place of its discovery. 



DESCRIPTION OF A NEW SPECIES OF HETEROPTERA 

 FROM SOUTH AFRICA. 



By W. L. Distant. 



Fam. CoREiD^. 



The genus AgrapJiopus has hitherto been generally considered 

 as a Palaearctic one, though found throughout the confines 

 of that region. I have recently traced one species, A. lethierryi, 

 Stal, to Southern India, described a new species from Northern 

 India, and now add another from South Africa. A species has 

 also been described from Central Africa and two from Mada- 

 gascar. 



AgrapJiopus anteitnatns, sp. n. 



Head, pronotum, and scutellum dull flavescent, thickly, obscurely, 

 finely punctate ; lateral margins of head in front of the antenniferous 

 tubercles and at inner margins of eyes, lateral margins of pronotum, 

 and a central impunctate, longitudinal narrow fascia to pronotum 

 and scutellum dull stramineous, apex of scutellum albescent ; the 

 disc of head, anterior area of pronotum, and the lateral margins of 

 the scutellum are also more darkly punctate ; corium pellucid, the 

 lateral margins and veins ochraceous ; membrane pale hyaline; body 

 beneath and legs ochraceous ; antennce very distinctly pilose, first, 

 second, and third joints ochraceous, fourth joint, excluding extreme 

 base, piceous, second and third joints subequal in length, fourth 

 moderately incrassated ; lateral marginal areas of sternum thickly 

 and more darkly punctate ; abdomen beneath with a dark, central, 

 longitudinal line. 

 Length, 6 millim. 



