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Genus Crollius. 

 Crolliut, Diat. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (7) vii. p. 21 (1901). 

 Type, C. conspersus, Walk. 



Crollius sudanus, sp. n. 



Head, pronotum, scutellnm, and corium dull ochraceous, 

 thickly darkly punctate; scutellnm with three small pale 

 spots on basal margin and a small black spot at basal angles; 

 membrane slaty grey, the veins piceous ; body beneath 

 black, lateral margins of sternum and abdomen, rostrum, and 

 legs ochraceous ; body elongate ; antennae ochraceous, four- 

 jointed, basal joint stoutest, slightly passing the apex of the 

 head, second joint slightly longer than either third or fourth, 

 which are subequal in length, fourth joint infuscate, its apex 

 paler ; head about as long as broad between the inuer 

 margins of eyes, the lateral lobes sublaminate and reflexed, 

 longer than the central lobe and meeting beyond it, their 

 apices well separated, anteuniferous tubercles outwardly and 

 prominently spined ; lateral margins of pronotum (very 

 narrowly), costal margin of corium (narrowly), and the con- 

 nexivum ochraceous; membrane not reaching the abdominal 

 apex. 



Long. 8 to 8£ mm. 



Hab. Sudan (A. F. Broun, Brit. Mus.). 



Allied to C. conspersus, Walk., but a more elongate and 

 much narrower species ; scutellum narrower, much more 

 sinuately compressed near middle. 



Genus Agabotus. 

 Agabotus, Uist. Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1884, p. 459. 

 Type, A. brunnescens, Dist. 



Agabotus ventralis, sp. n. 



Head ochraceous, darkly punctate, the margins of the 

 lateral lobes narrowly blackish ; eyes black, their basal and 

 posterior margins ochraceous ; ocelli pale castaneous, situate 

 well behind eyes and near base of head, nearer eyes than to 

 each other; antennas with the first joint stout, ochraceous, 

 blackish at apex and about reaching apex of head, second 

 and third joints black, second very slightly shorter than 

 third (remaining joints mutilated in type) ; pronotum ochra- 

 ceous, darkly punctate, except on the lateral ampliated 

 margins, which are uniformly ochraceous, though sparingly 



