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" UNDESCRIBED RHYNCHOTA." 



By W. L. Distant. 



Fain. LiYGiEiDJE. 

 Subfam. Heterogastrin^. 

 In 1874 Scott founded the genus Chauliops, for the reception 

 of a Japanese Lygaeid. This species I have also received from 

 Ceylon, collected by that indefatigable economic entomologist 

 Mr. E. E. Green, and I have figured it in my second volume on 

 the ' Ehynchota of British India ' (p. 36, fig. 24). I have now to 

 add a West African species, which I have just discovered in 

 some specimens collected for me by my late friend D. G. Ruther- 

 ford, some years ago. 



Chauliops rutlierfordi, sp. n. 



Pale brownish or brownish luteous ; pronotum with two discal 

 longitudinal fasciae widened anteriorly, and a spot near each lateral 

 posterior angle piceous ; scutellum, excluding basal lateral margins, 

 piceous ; corium with an inner discal series of very coarse dark 

 punctures, and with its apical margin piceous ; membrane dark 

 fuscous ; antennte pale luteous, first and fourth joints pale castaneous ; 

 femora castaneous, their bases luteous ; tibiae and tarsi luteous, bases 

 of the tibiffi castaneous ; scutellum strongly attenuated posteriorly, its 

 lateral margins concavely sinuate, its apical half longitudinally sulcate. 

 Long, ^h millim, 



Hah. Old Calabar (D. G. Rutherford). 



This species, in general appearance, is closely allied to the 

 eastern C.fallax, Scott, but is structurally separated by the totally 

 different shape of the scutellum. 



Fam. Phybiatid^. 

 Glossopelta dudgeoui, sp. n. 

 Black ; anterior lateral margins of pronotum, connexivum, a 

 longitudinal spot on each side of head beneatb, rostrum, sternum — 

 excluding lateral angles, abdomen and legs, stramineous ; head granu- 

 lose, area of the ocelli and the eyes castaneous ; antennae with the first 

 joint robust, granulose, almost as long as second and third joints 

 together, second and third joints short, more slender than the other 

 joints, subequal in length and attenuated at their bases, fourth joint 

 incrassate, pyriform, witb its base castaneous, and longer than second 

 and third together ; pronotum with the anterior lobe finely and 

 sparingly granulose, the posterior lobe very coarsely punctate, with 

 two ventral discal ridges commencing on posterior margin of anterior 

 lobe, anterior lateral margins strongly cienulate, posterior angles pro- 

 duced, their apices broadly concavely truncate ; scutellum very finely 

 densely and obscurely punctate, and with a central longitudinal raised 

 line ; connexivum broadly and convexly produced to second segment 

 and then sinuately narrowed to its apex. Long. 10. Exp. pronot. 

 angl. -i. millim. 



