78 Mr. W. L. Distant on African Pentatomidse. 



Hub. N. Rhodesia ; Kafue R. (/. Drury, S. Afr. Mus.). 



This is the tirst species of Odonto tarsus described from 

 the Ethiopian Region. It is represented in North Africa, 

 but is there Palsearctic in distribution. 



Genus Kayesia. 



Kayesia, Schout. Rkynch. ^Fthiop. 1, i. p. 114 (1903). 



Type, K. parva, Schout. 



Kayesia nigrolineata, sp. n. 



Pale brownish ochraceous, thickly darkly punctate ; mar- 

 gins of the pronotal cicatrices and a transverse central spot 

 just behind them, irregular, transverse, and somewhat reticu- 

 late lines to the scutellum, and margins to the central lobe of 

 liead, black; scutellum with five small basal spots, a short 

 lateral marginal line near base and a somewhat faint central 

 longitudinal line not extending beyond middle, pale ochra- 

 ceous ; head beneath and sternum blackish, abdomen beneath 

 castaneous (imperfectly seen on carded type) ; coxae, legs, 

 and rostrum pale ochraceous ; femora biannulated with 

 piceous on their anterior areas, bases and apices of tibiye 

 more or less piceous; rostrum with its apex black and 

 reaching the posterior coxse ; sternum sulcated and thickly 

 coarsely punctate ; head with the lateral margins sinuate, the 

 lateral lobes slightly longer than the central lobe, thickly 

 coarsely punctate, eyes prominent ; antennas mutilated in 

 typical specimens, first joint not reaching apex of head, 

 ochraceous ; pronotum with the anterior lateral angles acute, 

 prominent, and pale ochraceous, lateral margins strongly 

 sinuate, posterior lateral angles obtusely subprominent. 



Long. 5 mm. 



Hah. Natal ; Durban (Bell-Marley). 



Genus Legnotus. 



Legnotus, Schiodte, in Kroyer, Naturh. Tidsskr. (2) ii. p. 464 (1849). 

 Gnathoconus, Fieb. 

 Lalervis, Sign. 



Type, L. melaleucus, Thunb. 



Legnotus expansus. 



Adomerus expansus, Sign. Ann. Mus. Civ. Stor. Nat. Genov. 1881, 



p. 656. 

 Lalervis e.vpansa, Sign. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1884, p. 49 (Cydn. pi. xxv. 



tig. 216;. 



