Mr. W. L. Distant on African Pentatomidae. 79 



Gnathoconus elongatus, Dist. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (7) xiii. p. 3-19 



(1904). 

 Legnotus elongntns, Bergr. Mem. Soc. Ent. Bete, xv. p. 150 (1P03). 

 G'uathoconus expansus, Schout. Kilimand. Meru Exped. xii. p. 94 (1910). 



Hob. Abyssinia ; Kilimand jaro ; Transvaal. 

 Scbonteden Las compared a cotype of my species with the 

 Lalervis expansa, Sign., in the Genoa Museum. 



Genus Atelocera. 

 Atelocera, Lap. Ess. Hem. p. 03 (1832). 



Type, A. armata, Lap. 



Atelocera attenuata, sp. n. 



Head black, the lateral margins, a central longitudinal 

 line anteriorly obsolete, a curved line from near ocelli to 

 before eyes, and a somewhat oblique line on anterior area on 

 each side of the central lobe, ochraceous ; pronotum ochra- 

 ceous mottled with black and with black punctures, more 

 prominently black on the subanterior and sublateral margins, 

 a central pale longitudinal line only distinct on anterior area, 

 the anterior and anterior lateral margins ochraceous ; scu- 

 tellum and corium ochraceous, strongly mottled and punctured 

 with black or piceous, membrane greyish fuliginous with the 

 veins darker ; body beneath and legs dark ochraceous or 

 pale castaneous; head beneath, sublateral margins of sternum, 

 coxal spots, apices of femora more or less, apices of tibiae, 

 the tarsi, and apex of rostrum black; connexivum above 

 and beneath alternately black and ochraceous ; antennae 

 black, second joint (excluding apical area) pale castaneous 

 brown, first joint not reaching apex of head, second con- 

 siderably longer than third, which is a little longer than 

 fourth ; head about as long as pronotum, thickly coarsely 

 punctate between the longitudinal pale lines ; pronotum with 

 the lateral margins strongly sinuate, anteriorly finely crenu- 

 late, the posterior angles somewhat broadly subangularly 

 produced ; abdomen sulcate ; rostrum passing the posterior 

 coxa?. 



Long. 14-16 mm. ; exp. pronot. angl. 7 mm. 



Had. Abyssinia; Shoa (Brit. Mus.). Uganda; Kampola 

 (Coll. Dist.). 



Allied to A. stictica, Westw., but a more narrow and 

 elongate species, the anterior femora much more shortly 

 spined, head distinctly shorter and comparatively broader. 



