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



Atelocera castanea, sp. n. 



Pale castaneous, with paler mottliags and darker punctures ; 

 head with a black line on each side of the central lobe, and 

 an irregular black spot behind each eye, a somewhat paler 

 central longitudinal fascia traverses the central lobe and 

 reaches base of head; pronotum with a pale central longitu- 

 dinal fascia, a sublateral marginal black fascia and the 

 margins of the cicatrisant area black ; scutellum with a 

 somewhat faint central pale longitudinal line ; membrane 

 bronzy piceous ; connexivum ochraceous, with quadrate 

 black spots ; body beneath and legs reddish ochraceous ; 

 disk of head beneath, sternal sutural margins, a sublateral 

 fascia to prosternum, anterior femora and tibiae beneath, and 

 the tarsi black or piceous ; antennas with the first and second 

 joints brownish ochraceous, third and fourth joints and 

 underside of second joint piceous, first joint almost reaching 

 apex of head, second joint longest, prominently sulcate, third 

 and fourth subequal in length; head about as long as pro- 

 notum, excluding the central fasciate line distinctly punc- 

 tate; pronotum with the lateral margins only moderately 

 sinuate, anteriorly finely crenulate, excluding the central 

 fascia finely darkly punctate ; scutellum (excluding the 

 central fasciate line) somewhat thickly darkly punctate, more 

 obscurely punctate on apical area ; corium somewhat coarsely 

 and thickly darkly punctate ; rostrum just passing the poste- 

 rior coxae ; anterior femora beneath finely spinose, more 

 prominently so on apical area j abdomen sulcate. 



Long. 13|-14 mm. ; exp. pronot. angl. 7-7\ mm. 



Hab. S.E. Rhodesia; Gaza Land, near Chirinda [Marshall, 

 Brit. Mus.). 



Allied to A. obscura, Dall. 



Genus Menaccarus. 

 Menaccarus, Amy. & Serv. Hist. He"m. p. 100 (1843). 



Type, M. piceus, Amy. & Serv. 



Menaccarus atratus, sp. n. 



Black, thickly punctate, with some slight testaceous 

 mottlings or suffusions ; body beneath with the disk of the 

 sternum (more or less) and the disk of the abdomen (broadly) 

 testaceous brown, the latter margined on each side with a 

 series of black segmental spots each containing a narrow 



