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4. D. suPERSTiTiosus (Fabr.). — South Africa; Transkei (G. 

 C. Barrett). 



5. Nysius raphanus, W. R. Howard. — 1872, Phillips's 

 * Southern Planter ' (sec. Kiley), and 1872, ' Country Gentle- 

 man,' Sept. 15th (sec. Eiley), and ' Canad. Entom.' iv. p. 409. 

 = N. destructor, Pdley, 1873, 'Fifth Missouri Eeport,' p. 113, 

 fig. 41. . . 



Riley admits {I.e. p. Ill) that Howard's description was 

 published before his own, and that the two names refer to the 

 same species. 



6. Sephina vinula (Stul). — Jamaica (C._ B. Taylor). The 

 ground colour of the two examples I possess is as red as that of 

 S. maculata (Dallas) from the same island. _ This species has 

 not, I believe, been recorded before from Jamaica. 



7. MORMIDEA MONTANDONI, Sp. n. 



This handsome little species combines the characters of the typical 

 subgenus and Melanochila, Stal. It is separated from all the other 

 described species (except M. liujens (Fabr.)) by the deflexed head and 

 transversely callose-fasciate pronotum. From M. lugena it is dis- 

 tinguished by the colour of the head and buccul^e, the general pictura- 

 tion, and by the pronotal fascia being practically entire. 



Bronzy black ; tylus, lateral margins of head, anterior and lateral 

 margins of pronotum, a submedian fascia and the latero-basal margin 

 of the pronotum, the three sides of the scutellum, two lateral and a 

 sublateral stripe on corium, clear pale yellow. Connexivum above and 

 entire ventral surface (including antennae, bucculcB, and legs) dilute 

 fusco-testaceous. Abdomen beneath with seven obscure, slightly 

 darker, longitudinal stripes at subequal distances apart. _ Membrane 

 bronzy fumate. Femora and tibite speckled with black, apical half of 

 third and the fourth segment of antennae black, first and second more 

 or less blackish. Head anteriorly somewhat deflexed ; rostrum reach- 

 ing to posterior coxse, first segment to base of head. Antennas short, 

 fourth segment about three-fifths longer than the third, which is 

 slightly longer than the second, which is two-thirds longer than the 

 first. Head, pronotum, scutehum, and elytra (except the subcallose 

 or subreflexed pallid parts) strongly impresso-punctate (the outer corial 

 stripe sometimes somewhat sparingly so). Pronotum a little before 

 the middle with a callose, entire (or almost entire) transverse fascia. 

 Pronotum antero-laterally obtusely denticulate, lateral angles acumi- 

 nately spinose. Scutellum not callosely spotted. Pleura sparsely 

 punctured. Apical angles of abdominal segments acute, somewhat 

 prominent. Long. 7i-8i mill., lat. (across pronotal spines) 5|- 

 5f mill. 



Hah. Ecuador, Ambato (collns. A. L. Montandon and mine). 

 I have great pleasure in naming this well-marked species 

 after my friend Mr. A. L. Montandon, our chief authority on some 

 branches of the Cimicidse. 



