152 Mr. W. L. Distant's Ehynchotal Notes. 



carination less prominent frontally than discally, the poste- 

 rior process very strongly tricarinate, curved backwardly, 

 the apical area impinging on tegmina at and beyond poste- 

 rior angle of inner tegminal margin, the apex acute ; tarsi 

 testaceous ; scutellum more or less greyishly pubescent. 



Long., iucl. tegm., 9 mm. ; exp. lat. pronot. process. 9 mm. 



Hab. Somaliland {E. Lord Phillips, Brit. Mus.). 



Xiphopoeus erectus, sp. n. 



Pale fuscous brown, more or less greyishly tomentose ; 

 lateral margins of the pronotum distinctly greyish ; femora 

 black, their apices and the whole of the tibise and tarsi pale 

 ochraceous ; tegmina dull greyish, the venation and the 

 apical area (more or less) pale fuscous brown ; pronotum 

 with the lateral processes obliquely erect, inwardly coarsely 

 serrate for about half their length, their apices broadened, 

 flattened and bispinous, in other respects resembling O. p/ian- 

 tasma, Spin., from West Africa, and 0. horridulus, Walk., 

 from Southern Africa. From the first this species is sepa- 

 rated by the less broadened and differently angulated apices 

 of the pronotal processes, and from the second by the same 

 character and the more obliquely erect direction of the 

 processes. 



Long., incl. tegm., 6^ mm.; exp. pronotal process. 5 mm. 



Hab. Uganda ; Kafu R., near Hoima, Kampala Road, 

 3000-5000 ft., and N. of L. Isolt, 3700 ft. (5. A. Neave^. 



In the genus Kleidos — Xiphopoeus, Buckton (Trans. Linn. 

 Soc. Lond. (2) vol. ix. p. 333, 1906) has descril3ed a species 

 from Zanzibar under the name of Kleidos palmatus. 1 have 

 not seen the type, and the short description is insufficient. 



Eligius, gen. nov. 



Elongate, moderately compressed ; pronotum with the 

 lateral processes long, broad, laminate, erect, the posterior 

 margins bicarinate, more flattened anteriorly, and broadly 

 rounded at apices, the posterior apex shortly spinous, poste- 

 rior process strongly tricarinate, slightly recurved on apical 

 area, moderately broad at base, gradually narrowing to apex, 

 which is subacute, and slightly passing the posterior angle 

 of inner tegminal mai-gin ; tegmina elongate, with five apical 

 cells, their margins straight. 



The erect, broadly laminate, pronotal lateral processes, and 

 the giadually narrowing posterior process, are the salient 

 characters ot this genus, the hist feature separating it from 

 Ctntrutyjnis, Stal. 



