Mr. W. L. Distant on African Pentatomida?. 89 



spots ; rostrum a little passing the posterior coxae; connexi- 

 vum ochraceous, with a linear dark spot on each side of the 

 incisures. 



kong., £ ?, 11 to 14 mm. ; exp. pronot. angl. G to 7 mm. 



Hab. N.E. Rhodesia; Serenje Distr. (Neave) ; S.E. 

 Rhodesia; Gaza Land ; Chirinda Forest {Odendaal) ; South- 

 east Congo Free State ; Katanga [Neave, Brit. Mus.). 



Allied to T. corticini, Germ., from which it differs by the 

 more acute pronotal angles, different coloration, &c. 



Genus Dryadocoris. 



Holcostethus, Fieb. (part.) Eur. Hem. p. 333 (1861); StSl, Ofv. Vet.- 



Ak. Forh. 1872, no. 3, p. 37. 

 Dryadocoris, Kirk. Cat. Hem. (Het.) i. p. 47 (1909), n. nom. 



Type, H. analis, Costa. 



Dryadocoris t (turns, sp. n. 



Pale olivaceous green, darkly punctate; the produced 

 pronotal angles black; apex of scutellum somewhat broadly 

 bluish grey; connexivum, body beneath, and legs pale 

 olivaceous green, the first with the segmental apices black ; 

 antennae with the first and second joints pale olivaceous 

 green, remaining joints fuscous, first joint not quite reaching 

 apex of head, second slightly shorter than third ; head some- 

 what thickly wrinkled and punctate; pronotum with the 

 posterior lateral angles strongly and robustly produced and 

 a little upwardly directed, somewhat thickly brownly punc* 

 tate except on lateral margins and between the produced 

 angles, in the latter case giving the appearance of a pale 

 transverse fascia ; scutellum coarsely punctate, especially on 

 the anterior and lateral marginal areas, the pale apex im-. 

 punctate; corium with its interior area somewhat purplish 

 brown, thickly punctate, except at base of costal margin, 

 which is impunctate and transversely impressed ; membrane 

 hyaline, reflecting the dark abdomen beneath, excepting 

 where it apically projects beyond it ; connexivum more or 

 less darkly punctate ; body beneath with a small black spot 

 near bases of coxte, a longitudinal series of dark punctures, 

 on each lateral area, and scattered black punctures on disk of 

 abdomen; apices of ti bias and the tarsi brownish ; rostrum 

 reaching the posterior coxae, its apex black, 



Long. 8 mm. ; exp. pronot. angl, 6| mm. 



IJab. Congo Free State ; Katanga ; Kambove, 4000-^ 

 5000 ft. [Neave, Brit. Mus.). 



Allied to D. gonoides, Dall., from which it differs by thg 

 more strongly produced pronotal angles, 



