78 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



Mgaleus, Stal (of which four species, all from Africa, were 

 previously known), and are apparently as yet undescribed. The 

 details upon which Mgaleus has been separated from Antestia 

 appear trivial enough, even in the much discerpted Cimicidse, 

 but as Lethierry and Severin (Cat. Hem. i. 175) follow Stal, I 

 have also fallen into line. 



Mgaleus hechuana, sp. n. 



Densely punctured. Head longitudinally somewhat convex. Tylus 

 passing a little beyond the juga. Second segment of abdomen desti- 

 tute ventrally of a spme or tubercle. Thorax with the antero-lateral 

 margins sligbtly rounded. Scutellum somewhat wide at the base 

 ("apex," auctt. !). 



$ . Sixth segment beneath roundly excavated, the apical margin 

 continuing in a curve to the lateral margin ; apical margin of fifth 

 segment distinctly angular in the centre. 



5 . Sixth segment deeply roundly excavated, apical margin 

 turning off at an angle at the conuexivum ; apical margin of fifth 

 almost angular in the centre. 



Long. <? 7f mm., 5 8 mm. ; lat. <? 4f , ? 5 mm. 



British Central Africa (through E. E. Green), on coffee [No. 49] . 



Shining black ; juga, antero-lateral margins of pronotum (except 

 posteriorly), a central anterior spot on the pronotum, two large spots 

 near the base of the scutellum, base of exocorium, apical margin and 

 an elongate spot near the middle of the exterior margin of the corium 

 proper, greater part of under side of head-, apices of femora broadly, 

 basal segment [others broken] of anteunre, &c., orange yellow. An 

 interrupted longitudinal line on tylus, basal margin of bead, sublateral 

 margin posteriorly of the antero-lateral margin of pronotum, four 

 longitudinal abbreviated lines on pronotum, a central longitudinal 

 thin streak on the middle of the pronotum (the anterior part cutting 

 through the orange yellow round spot before-mentioned) ; the lateral 

 margin (basally), a short line in the middle close to the anterior 

 margin, and the whole of the base ("apex," Stal) of the scutellum; 

 base of corium and a spot in the middle of exocorium ; apical half of 

 each conuexival segment above ; venter (ground colour) ; basal half 

 of femora — luteostramineous. [Ground colour of elytra black, with a 

 reddish tinge.] Apical half of membrane hyaline, wings infuscate 

 with a greenish tinge. Femora with a black spot between the apical 

 orange yellow and the stramineous basal part ; tibiae and tarsi infus- 

 cate. Lateral margins of abdomen beneath irregularly chequered with 

 black (or dark green), stramineous (tinged partly with luteous), and 

 fuscous ; the second to sixth segments each have an elongate orange 

 yellow spot sublaterally, terminated interiorly and exteriorly by brown 

 spots. 



Closely allied to jE, inermiventris (Still) and M. sparmanni 

 (Sttil), but differing by the colour, and probably by the structure; 

 but of the latter Stal has given very meagre details. 



