198 Dr. E. Bergrotli 07i new or 



genitalibus nigro-setulosis. Pedes picei, fossa spongiosa tibiaruin 

 anteriorum minus qiiam trientem apicalem occupante. 



Long., $ , 11-5-13 mm. 



Forma alata ignota. 



Nyasaland : S.E. shore of Lake Nyasa, between Fort 

 Maguire and Fort Johnston {S. A. Nenve) ; N.E. RHODESIA : 

 between Fort Jameson and Lundazi, 4000 feet {S. A. Nenve). 



Allied to E. hishisignaia, Stal, but smaller and differently 

 coloured, with the first antennal joint shorter. 



EdocJa pilosula, Dist. 



Abdomen ad angulos apicales segmentorum, ultimo excepto, spina 

 armatum, his spinis in segmento prime validis, in segmentis 

 sequentibus longitudine sensim decrescentibua. 



Forma aptera ( ? ) : Lobus po9ticus pronoti antico duplo brevior et 

 multo humilior. Mesonotum lateribus spinula erecta parva, 

 metanotum ibidem spinula erecta majore armatum. Hemelytra 

 et alee nulla. 



Long. 6-7 mm. 



Nyasaland : Lower Shire Valley, near Chikawa, 600 feet 

 {S. A. Neave) . 



Distant has omitted the principal cliaracter of the species, 

 the spinous abdominal margin, by which it differs from all 

 other species of the genus. Mr. Champion has kindly 

 examined tlie type, and informs me that the abdomen is 

 spinous also in the winged form. 



Su bf a m . Petalocsisin^is. 



Petalochiriis pugil, sp. n. 



Elongato-ovatus, parce pilosus, capite superiore, pronoto scutelloque 

 ochraceis, bemelytris fuscis, connexivo fusco-nigro, capitis macalis 

 duabus oblongis anterioribus postice confluentibus, irapz'essione 

 transversa interoculari, vitta retrorsum angustata inter ocellos et 

 basin lateribusque postocularibus, pronoti vitta media antice 

 abbreviata sublateralique subcurvata lobi autici ac vitta media 

 angusta antice abbreviata, maculis quattuor antemedianis (exte- 

 rioribus minoribus) basique anteriore spinas lateralis lobi postici, 

 scutelli disco spinaque laterali nigris, maculis numerosis hem- 

 elytrorum squalide albidis, macula transversa obliqua apicem 

 mesocorii occupante fuliginosa, fascia vel macula transA^ersa 

 prope basin segmentorum connexivi (in segmentis duobus ultimis 

 feminae solum ad marginem lateralem disriiictis) fulva, maculis 

 duabus denudatis horum segmentorum, altera ante, altera mox 

 pone medium sita, nigris, spinis angulorum apicalium seg- 

 mentorum piceis, apice late pallide flavidis ; subtus cum rostro 



