542 Appendix. 



line above. Tips o^ front fevi^ra on outside clothed with orange- 

 rufous hair ; a large tuft of similar hair on the pleurae, below the 

 humeral angles. Tliorcu; duller than abdomen, and, except on 

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

 pile, clothed with very short black hair, ie;/^ tliickly fringed with 

 black hair, except where otherwise stated. Wings 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, Maslioualand ; Feb. 1899 (G. A. K. Marshall) : 

 one specimen. Type in the Hope Museum, Oxford. 



I have much pleasure in associating this fine now 

 species with the name of its discoverer. 



It may be of interest to note that tlie genns HyperecJiia 

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

 Hypcrecliia {Lapilirici) xylocopifm^mis, Walk., the type of 

 the genus, was described from a specimen from IMadras, 

 while H.fcra, v. d. Wulp, occurs in Borneo. 



Descriptions of nctv sjJccies of South African lihynchota. 

 By W. L. Distant. 



Family PYRRHOCORID^. 



Mcgapctus, gen. nov. 



Head elongately subquadrate, nari'owed in front of insertion of 

 antennae, apex truncately rounded, outer margins of eyes not so wide 

 as posterior angles of pronotum, antennae 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 jjroduced, posterior 

 margin truncate ; hemelytra rudimentary ; scutellum triangular ; 

 abdomen inflated ; rostrum reaching the intermediate coxse, basal 

 joint very robust, subequal to or very slightly shorter than second 

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

 obsoletely spinous before apex. 



Allied to Myrmoplasta, Gerst. 



Mcgaiidus atrattcs, 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 1^, base of abdomen black with a small whitish spot neiir 

 each anterior lateral angle, in J l)ase of abdomen br(jwiush i 



