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elytra being largely silvery white basally ; there are also seven or eight 

 much smaller silvery spots from base to apex. Beneath black, con- 

 nexiva fulvous. First segment of antennae distinctly longer than 

 second, fourth a little longer than third, which is one-fourth longer 

 than second. Pronotmn not carinate medianly. Long. 2i mill. ; lat. 

 0-85 mill. 



Hab. Ecuador, Guayaquil (collns. Montandon and Kirkaldy). 



Fam. Pyrrhocorid^. 

 AsTEMMA (Dysdercus) mimus (Say). 

 Jamaica (C. B. Taylor). 



Fam. MiridjE. 

 Makua, gen. nov. 



Belongs to div. Capsaria, Eeuter. 



Macropterous form : Impunctate, pronotum slightly rugulose. 

 Vertex immarginate, not sulcate. Head strongly declivous, about as 

 long as high ; clypeus confluent with the front, but well separated. 

 Rostrum not reaching beyond intermediate coxae. First segment of 

 antennae extending well beyond apex of head, distinctly shorter than 

 the pronotum. Pronotal collar shorter than width of second antennal 

 segment at base. Pronotum slightly transverse. Scutellum some- 

 what convex. Corium without supplementary nervures ; cuneus 

 longer than wide at base. Greater membranal areole angulate- 

 rotundate. Posterior femora short, not nearly reaching apex of 

 abdomen, shortly hairy ; tibire with spiny bristles. 



M. PSOLE, sp. nov. 

 Head, pronotum, scutellum, elytra, connexivum, ventral surface, 

 and legs sordid luteo-testaceous ; pubescence whitish. Eyes, two 

 basal segments of antennae, tarsi, and apex of rostrum blackish. 

 Clavus and corium (interiorly) dark purplish brownish; pronotum 

 laterally smoky. Corium intero-apically sanguineous, membrane 

 dilute smoky, nervures sanguineous. Clypeus and narrow sublateral 

 stripe on sterna sanguineous. Vertex about three-fifths wider than 

 an eye, rounded apically (as seen from above); second segment of 

 antennae three times as long as first, and twice as long as pronotum 

 (excluding collar). Long. 5|- mill., lat. If mill. 



Mozambique, Rikatla. 



Plexaris, gen. nov. 



Belongs to Capsaria, Reut. 



Strongly punctured. Head large, distinctly wider than half the 

 base of pronotum. Vertex immarginate. Eyes not widely divergent 

 apically. Second segment of antennae slightly incrassate apically. 

 Rostrum not reaching as far as posterior coxre. Pronotum widely 

 sinuate at the base, latero-posterior angles acute, base nearly four 

 times as wide as the collar, lateral margins straight, widely diverging. 

 Collar very slightly wider than the vertex at base. Scutellum convex. 



