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posterior pronotal angles distinctly spinously produced, the spines 

 directed a little backwardly ; the upper surface is very finely and 

 somewhat sparingly pilose ; Imse of anterior tarsi pale fuscous ; in 9 

 the intermediate tilna) somewhat brownish. 

 Long. 8 millini. ; exp. pronot. angl. 2i millim. 



Hah. Mashonaland ; Salisbury {G. A. K. Marshall). 

 Type in the Hope Museum, Oxford, and in Coll. Distant. 



Dysdcrcus inicrnicdius, sp. nov. (PI. XIX, f. 51.) 



Above pale ochraceous ; head, anterior area and lateral margins of 

 pronotnui, basal area of lateral pronotal margins, scutellum, body 

 beneath rostrum, and legs reddish-ochraceous or pale sanguineous ; 

 antennae, discal narrow transverse fascia to corium, membrane, tibia-, 

 tarsi, and anterior margins of sternal and abdominal segments, black ; 

 anterior margin of pronotum broadly, posterior margin narrowly, 

 anterior and posterior margins of prosternum, lateral and posterior 

 margins of pro- and mesosterna, lateral and posterior margins of 

 abdominal segments and the coxae, pale luteous ; anterior femora 

 spined beneath at apex ; second joint of antenna; slightly shorter 

 than the first the base of which is reddish. 



Long. 16 to 21 millim. 



Hah. German East Africa {Capt. Atkinson — Brit. 

 Mus.). Mashonaland; Salisbury {G. A. K. Marshall). 



Typo, from German East Africa, in the British Museum. 

 Specimens from Maslionaland in the Hope Museum, 

 Oxford, and in Coll. Distant. 



Intermediate between D. superstitiosus, Fabr., and D. 

 cardinalis, Gerst. From the first it differs by the absence 

 of the black fascia to the ])osterior margin of the pronotum 

 antl the transverse fascia to the corium; from D. cardinalis 

 it diifers by the black tibia? and tarsi. 



Family RED U VII D^. 



Plionodonus formosus, sp. nov. (PL XIX, f 52.) 



Pale luteous ; head, anterior lobe of pronotum, rostrum, anterior 

 and intermediate femora, base of posterior femora, and coxas 

 sanguineous ; antennas, scutellum (excluding apex), an indistinct 

 transverse fascia to corium at and somewhat confused with base of 

 membrane, til)ia^. and tarsi, posterior femora, central area of inter- 

 mediate femora, membrane, and apex of rostrum black ; sternum 



