192 Mr. W. L. Distant's Additions to a 



in width to base of mesonotum ; head as long as pronotum exclud- 

 ing posterior margin, lateral pronotal margins angularly ampliate ; 

 rostrum reaching the posterior coxa?. 



Long. excl. tegm. § 18 milium Exp. tegm. 58 millim. 



Hob. W. Africa ; Guince Frarnjais (Paris Mus.). 



Manza revoili, sp. n. (Plate XI, fig. 5, a, b.) 



<J . Head above piceous-black ; a spot at base of antenna?, eyes, 

 ocelli, and a large transverse spot between area of ocelli and eyes, 

 ochraceous ; pronotum ochraceous, the margins flavescent, a pos- 

 teriority broad central triangular fascia to disk, the incisures, and 

 sometimes extreme lateral margins, piceous-black ; mesonotum 

 testaceous, with four large obconical black spots, the two intermediate 

 spots smallest ; abdomen above brownish-testaceous ; body beneath 

 and legs more or less testaceous ; an anterior black fascia between 

 face and eyes ; anterior tibia? piceous ; tegmina with about basal half 

 creamy opaque, with obscure pale fuscous spots or mottlings, basal 

 cell with its anterior and apical margins piceous, apical half of 

 tegmina subhyaline, talc-like ; a macula fascia extenling across the 

 bases of 1-5 apical areas, a similar fascia at apices of apical areas, 

 broken on lower apical area, and more or less extending to outer 

 margin ; wings umber-brown and outwardly piceous for about 

 two-thirds their breadth from base, the anal area dark fuscous, the 

 venation piceous. Head including eyes slightly wider than base 

 of mesonotum, the lateral pronotal margins broad and medially 

 angulate ; abdomen much narrowed posteriorly ; rostrum reaching 

 the posterior coxae ; opercula transverse, centrally overlapping, 

 margins moderately convex, just reaching base of abdomen. 



Long. excl. tegm. <J 26 millim. Exp. tegm. 77 millim. 



Hah. Somaliland; Ouarsangueli (Revoil — Paris Mus.). 



Platypleura spicata, sp. n. 



§ . Body brownish-ochraceous, thickly and longly greyishly pilose ; 

 head with the area of the ocelli, two transverse lines on the lateral 

 margins of vertex, and an anterior marginal line to front, black ; 

 pronotum with two central lines fused posteriorly but not extending 

 across the posterior margin, and the incisures, black ; mesonotum 

 with four medial obconical spots on anterior margin, an elongate 

 lateral spot on each side, and a spot at each anterior angle of the 

 cruciform elevation, black ; tegmina and wings pale hyaline, a little 

 talc-like ; tegmina with a spot on costal membrane and area near 



