542 Appendix. 



line above. Tips o{ front ftm'ira on outside clotlied with orange- 

 rufous hair ; a large tuft of similar hair on tlie ]ileura> below the 

 lunneral angles. Thorax duller tlian abdomen, and, except on 

 posterior margin and also in front, where there is some ochraceous 

 pile, clothed with very short black hair. Letjs tliickly fringed witli 

 black hair, except where otherwise stated. Winys of the usual 

 blackish-brown tint, with a slightly purplish sheen, which, however, 

 is not so conspicuous as in the case of H. xylocopiformis, Walker. 



Salisbury, Mashonaland ; Feb. 1899 (G. A. K. Marshall) : 

 one specimen. Type in the Hope Museum, Oxford. 



I have much pleasure in associating tliis fine new 

 species with tlie name of its discoverer. 



It may be of interest to note that the genus Hypcrechia 

 occurs in the Oriental as well as in the Ethiopian Region : 

 HyperecMa {Laphri(() n'i/locopi/crrmis, Walk., the type of 

 the genus, was described from a specimen from Madras, 

 while IT. /era, v. d. Wulp, occurs in Borneo. 



descriptions of new S2Jccies of South African Rhyiichota. 

 By W. L. Distant. 



Family PYRRHOCORID.E. 

 Mcgapetus, gen. nov. 



Head elongately subquadrate, narrowed in front of insertion of 

 antenna;, apex truncately rounded, outer margins of eyes not so wide 

 as posterior angles of pronotum, antenme four-jointed, simple, second 

 and third joints subequal in length, each shorter than first, fourth much 

 the longest ; pronotum with the lateral margins convex, narrowed 

 anteriorly to base of head, lateral angles spinously produced, posterior 

 margin truncate ; hemelytra rudimentary ; scutellum triangular ; 

 abdomen inflated ; rostrum reaching the intermediate coxie, basal 

 joint very robust, sube({ual to or very slightly shorter than second 

 joint ; legs simple, posterior legs much the longest, posterior femora 

 obsoletely spinous before apex. 



Allied to Myriivyphista, Gerst. 



Mcgapetus atratas, sp. nov. (PI. XIX, f. 57-58 X li.) 



Black ; antenna; pale fuscous, basal half of first joint greyish, 

 fourth joint dark fuscous ; head anteriorly somewhat longly greyishly 

 pilose ; in (^, base of abdomen black with a small whitish spot ne;ir 

 each anterior lateral angle, in 9 'j'^^e of abdomen l)rownish ; 



