323 Mr. W. L. Dlstant's Rliynchotal Notes. 



Platybelus flatus. 



Centrotusjlavus, Sign, in Thorns. Arch. Ent. ii. p. 339 (1858). 

 Platybelus Jiavus, Stal, Hem. Afr. iv. p. 96 (1866). 

 Oj/hice>iti-i(s vcn'ipetmis, Buckt. Mouogr. Membrac. p. 2-jO, pi. Ivii. 

 tig. Irt (1903). 



Hab. Calabar. 



Platybelus ins}(/u/s, sp. d. 



Head, proiiotum, scutelluui, body l)eneathj and legs 

 black ; tarsi ochraceous ; teguiiiia pale sliiuiug ociu'aeeous, 

 the base and a spot oti costal margin beyond middle black, 

 a brownish spot on inner margin near posterior angle ; 

 pronotum punctate, the anterior margin truncate, the lateral 

 processes robust, their apices recurved and subacute, poste- 

 rior process arched above scutellum, where it is robust and. 

 impinging on inner tegminal margin before the posterior 

 angle, and thence attenuated and recurved to apex, which 

 passes the posterior angle. 



Long., inch tegm., 5 mm. ; exp. lat. pronot. process. 3i mm. 



Hab. Near Lake Nyassa {Thekvall, Brit. Mus.). 



Mauhya, gen. nov. 



Pronotum very strongly centrally longitudinally ridged, 

 the lateral processes somewhat short, broad, suhlaminate, 

 the apical margins oblique, the posterior process impinging 

 on the scutellum and tegmina, laterally broad and sub- 

 laminate for about half its length, where it is convex above 

 and then suddenly attenuated to apex, which passes the 

 posterior angle of the inner tegminal margin ; face mode- 

 rately globose ; legs simple, not dilated; tegmina with four 

 apical cells. 



Maunja yibbosulus. 



Cc/itr<iti<)< i/IO/wsulns, y\a.\]i. Jom-u. hum. Soc. Loud., Zool. x. p. 187 



(ii<m). ' 

 Hub. Macassar (IFallace). 



Antialcidas, gen. nov, 



Pronotum broad, strongly centrally carinate, the posterior 

 process prominently convexly, laniinately raised, its margins 

 strongly carinate, the apex shortly acute and not passing 

 the posterior angle of the inner tegminal margin, the lateral 

 angles broad and robust, their apices obliquely truncate, 



