322 Mr. W. L. Distant's Rhynchotal Notes. 



Genus Tricoceps. 



Tricoceps, Buckt. Monogr. Membrac. p. 249 (1903). 

 Tanibusa, Dist. Insect. Transvaal, p. 216 (1908), nom. prnsocc. 

 Tambusana, Dist. Ann. & Mag. Nut. Hist. (8j ix. p. t)52 (1912), n. nom. 



Type, T. brunnipennis, Germ. 



I did not recognize Buckton's f^enus at the time, as his 

 figure of the typical species is defective, and he gave no 

 reference as to its origin ; he also placed it in juxtaposition 

 to a geuus with which it had no affinity. 



Tricoceps brunnipennis. 



Centrotus brwuiipennis, Germ. Rev. Silb. iii. p. 257. 4 (1835) : Fairm. 



Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. ser. 2, iv. p. 512 (184i)). 

 Tricoceps brunneipennis, Buckt. Monogr. Membrac. p. 249 (1903). 



Hab. S. Africa, 



Buckton gave a diff'erent spelling to the specific name and 

 no reference to its author. 



Tricoceps hubipennis. 



Centrotus bubipennis, Fairm. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. ser. 2, iv. p. 511 (1846) ; 



Stai, Hem. Afr. iv. p. 95 (1866). 

 Tambusa bubipennis, Dist. Insect. Transvaal, p. 216, tab. .xxi. fig. 17 



(1908). 



Hab. S. Africa. 



Tricoceps cui'vispina, sp. n. 



Body and legs black ; tegmina bronzy brown, base and a 

 costal liue black, a large spot at posterior angle of inner 

 tegminal margin castaneous ; pronotum thickly punctate, 

 anterior lateral processes recurved, somewhat long, their 

 apices subacute, the disk strongly centrally carinate, the 

 posterior process tricarinate, strongly raised at base and then 

 straightly obliquely continued to posterior angle of inner 

 tegminal margin, which it distinctly passes, its apex sub- 

 acute ; scutellum with its apex prominently upwardly 

 recurved. 



Long., inch tegm,, 5-6 mm. ; exp. lat. pronot. process. 

 3^-4 mm. 



Hab. Congo Free State ; Katanga, Kambove, 4000- 

 5000 ft. (S. A. Neave). 



Allied to T. brunnipennis, Germ., but with the lateral 

 pronotal processes longer, much more recurved, and con- 

 siderably more acute. 



