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DESCRIPTION OF A NEW TINGID FROM CONGO 



bj 11 .-Li. Distant 



Genus AMMIANUS 

 Ammianus Dist., Faiin. B. L, Rhynch, III, p. 136 (1904). 



Ammianus Schoutedeni sp. n. 



Head black, the central ridges ochraceous, a black spine a little 

 utwardly curved in front of each eye (antennœ mutilated in 

 typical spécimen); pronotum black, coarsely punctate, the anterior 

 vesicle laye, globose, soKewhat directed backwardly, its upper 

 central margin slightly ridged and convex, ochraceous, palely 

 tessellate, three longitudinal ochraceous ridges to disk, its posterior 

 area paler with the extrême apical margin greyisli, strongly trans- 

 versely impressedbefore middle, behind which it is centrally discally 

 moderately gibbons, the dilated margins broad, a little forwardly and 

 upwardly directed, armed with four prominent spines, one at each 

 apical angle and one near middle of each latéral margin, between 

 the two apical spines the margin is sinuate and exhibits a short 

 central projection, the colour of rather more than basai half is pale 

 greyish, ochraceously reticulate with some prominent dark piceous 

 linear markings, the apical third is dark piceous also exhibiting dar- 

 ker lines; elytra with the discoidal and subcostal areasamber brown, 

 very finely and obscurely palely roundly tessellate, the outer margin 

 of subcostal area black, costal area hyaline, margins of the areolets 

 ochraceous, with a number of irregular transverse piceous lines, 

 its apical area piceous with numerous small white areolets, the 

 costal margin sinuate, broadest just before middle where there are 

 three short spines, suturai area dull ochraceous with paler areolets 

 and small white apical spots ; body beneath and legs black, tibiae 

 castaneous, the margins of costal area and dilated pronotal margins 

 as seen above (the body is imperfectly seen beneath in the carded 

 typical spécimen). 



Long, : 7 mill. 



Hab. ; Popocabacca (F. Loos). 



