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]X. — Descriptions of Ethiopian Rhijnchota {IJeteroptem). 

 By W. L. Distant. 



Pentatomidse. 



Plataspis angolensis, sp. n. 



Above ochraceous, much suffused and punctured with black, 

 on the scuteilum the punctures and suffusions obscurely 

 resemble three discal lonoitudinal fasciae : head somewhat 

 sparsely blackly punctate^ a central black spot on disk and 

 two basal longitudinal spots behind it, the anterior margin 

 centrally subtiuncate, obliquely rounded on each side to eyes; 

 pronotum more thickly punctate, the basal area more suffused 

 with black, on anterior area two black-margined transverse 

 spots; outside the basal angles of scuteilum a distinct basal 

 orange-yellow spot ; scuteilum less blackly marked and 

 punctured on the lateral areas and between the pseudo- 

 longitudinal fascite on disk ; the sternum is subviolaceously 

 opaque ; head beneath and sternal margins ochraceous with 

 scattered black punctures ; legs, rostrum, and abdomen be- 

 neath brighter and darker ochraceous ; central fascia to 

 sternum and abdomen, narrow segmental abdominal margins, 

 and a transverse waved fascia to basal segment, black. 



Of the size and shape of P. Iwrvathi, Hagl., but the an- 

 terior margin of the head not centrally sinuous, but evenly 

 continuous. 



Long. 10 ; hit. 9^ mm. 



Bub. Angola (Brit. Mus.). 



Mi/rochea inermis, sp. n. 



Pale ochraceous; head with the margins of the lateral 

 lobes (narrowly) and the margins of the central lobe (broadly) 

 black ; pronotum with four longitudinal black fascise composed 

 of confluent black punctures, two similar longitudinal black 

 fascia to scuteilum; corium, excluding lateral marginal area, 

 thickly, sometimes almost confluently blackly punctate; 

 membrane greyish brown ; head beneath with a large black 

 spot on each side of base of rostrum, and some black spots at 

 base; pro- and mesonota centrally and sublaterally black; 

 abdomen beneath with a central segmental series of Jarge 

 transverse black spots and with two longitudinal series ot 

 black punctures on each lateral area; legs ochraceous; a 

 subapical aunulation and apices to femora, the anterior tibia^, 



