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Records of the S.A. TtlusEUM 



POROCORIXA subg^. nov. 



Pronotum and hemelytra densply punctate, clothed with short hairs; pro- 

 notnm without transverse lines; no vcrmiculatc or anfrnlate markino-s on winp- 

 covers. Male with facial impression, and a sti'i<iil on ripht side of abdomen; face 

 of female convex. Pala with a terminal claw, pe^s of stridnlatory comb strong. 



Type, Corixa evrynomc Kirkaldy. 



Resembles the African Agrapiocovi.ni Kirkaldy, but in that p;onns the pro- 

 notum is lightly pnnctate-rug'ose and no mention is made of pimclation on the 

 hemelvtra. 



POROCORIXA EURYNOME Kirkaldy. 



Corixa eurynomc Kirk., Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. ((i). xx, 1897, p. 54. 



$ Head ochraceous or testaceous, about as long- as wide, a little tumid in 

 front, almost evenl^^ concave posteriorly; with a coarse, median longitudinal, 

 interocular carina, on each side of which is an impressed line of punctures, closely 



Fig. 343. Porocorixa eurynomc. 



set po.steriorly, but becoming more scattered towards the vertex; another line of 

 punctures near each eye, cui-ved inwards near base of head to meet the first series; 

 face ochraceous, punctate, clothed with fine yellow hairs; with a slight depression 

 extending to well above innei- margins of eyes, and a shallow, rather narrow, 

 obovate, interior impression i-eaching to betAveen inner angles of eyes; eyes 

 directed backwards, a little beyond and over the anterior pronotal angles, the 

 inner margins almost ]iarallel, slightly divergent ; terminal joint of antennae very 

 short. Pronotum dai-k olivaceous-brown (appearing almost black in fresh adult 

 examples), clothed with very short black hairs; twice as broad between humeral 



