214 CATALOGUE- OF 



13. Atelocera eugosa. 

 Atelocerus rugosus, Hope, Cat. Hem. 21. 

 Cape. 



14. Atelocera natalensis. 

 natalensis, Slal, Ofv. Vet. A/c. Fork. 1853, 216 ; Hem. Afr. i. 95. 

 Caffiaria. 



15. Ateloceiia caffba. 

 caffra, Stal, Ofv. K. Vet. Ak. Fork. 1853, 216; Hem. Afr. i. 96. 

 Caffiaria. 



16. Atelocera notatipenxis. 

 nolalipennis, Stal, K. Ofv. Vet. Ak. Fork. 1858, 312; Hem. Afr. i. 97. 

 South Africa. 



a. Lalce N'garai. From Mr. Andersen's collectioD. 



17. Atelocera bipustolata. 



Flavesccns, longi-elliplica, aspere punctata, nigricante aut piceo conspersa, 

 villa dorsali glabra ; caput tiigro bivittalum ; rostrum ferrugineiim^ 

 apice piceum, abdominis segmentum Aum altingens ; thorax plagis 

 duabus anticis nigris, laleribus subserratis ; scutellum macuiis tribus 

 basalibus nigris, plagis duabus nigricantibus dijf'usis ; pectus luleum, 

 laleribus nigris ; venter rufescens, sulcatus, margine lata nigricante ; 

 pedes breves, robusli, tibiis apice larsisque nigris ; alee anticcB macula 

 postmedia nigra, membrana cinerea. 



Yellowish, shining, elongate-elliptical, roughly punctured ; punctures 

 black or piceous. Head, thorax and scutellum with a smooth stripe. Head 

 as long as the thorax, with two broad shallow longitudinal furrows and 

 with two irregular black stripes; under side black; lateral lobes hardly ex- 

 tending beyond the middle lobe; two lateral smooth stripes which are un- 

 dulating between the eyes. Eyes prominent. Rostrum ferruginous, piceous 

 towards the lip, extending to the middle of the fourth abdominal segment. 

 Thorax with a transverse undulating smooth line, in front of which there 

 is a black patch on each side ; sides slightly and obtusely serrated; hind 

 angles rounded, not prominent. Scutellum slightly contracted on each 

 side beyond the middle; three black smooth basal spots, the middle one 

 interrupting the stripe; an elongated diffuse blackish patch on each side. 

 Pectus luteous, thinly punctured, mostly black on each side. Abdomeu 

 with blackish quadrate lateral spots ; under side reddish, broadly blackish- 

 bordered, the furrow extending to the middle of the fifth segment. Legs 

 reddish, short, stout, setulose ; tibiae towards the tips and tarsi black ; tibiae 

 furrowed. Fore wings partly blackish along the outer border; a black 

 postmedial spot in the disk ; membrane cinereous. Length of the body 

 11^ lines. 



This species may be distinguished from A. natalensis and from 

 A. caffra by the unarmed femora, and from A. notatipennis by the furrowed 

 abdomeu. 



a. East Africa. Presented by Earl Russell. 



