Mr. W. L. Distant on African Pentatomidse. 93 



anteriorly, the lateral lobes meeting beyond the central lobe, 

 their apices a little divergent and subacute ; ocelli small, 

 near base, much nearer eyes than to each other ; antennae 

 with the first joint moderately thickened, short, scarcely 

 reaching apical third of head, second, third, and fourth joints 

 almost subequal in length, fifth longest ; rostrum reaching 

 the posterior coxae ; pronotum between the lateral angles 

 about twice as broad as long, the anterior half obliquely 

 depressed, the lateral angles prominent, broadly subacutely 

 produced, lateral margins concavely sinuate, the anterior 

 and posterior margins a little concave ; scutellum somewhat 

 short and broad, almost as broad at base as long, the apex 

 broadly rounded ; corium a little longer than scutellum, its 

 apex oblique ; membrane not reaching the abdominal apex, 

 veins longitudinal, some furcate ; connexivum broad, a little 

 obliquely deflected, the segmental angles obtusely prominent ; 

 abdomen beneath moderately convex ; femora distinctly 

 thickened, tarsi robust, tarsal claws prominent. 

 Allied to Diploxys, A. & S., and Hypaulacus, Spin. 



Amaxosana punctata, sp. n. 



Ochraceous, thickly, coarsely, darkly punctate, the punc- 

 tures on the head finer ; antennae ochraceous, apex of third 

 and the whole of fourth joint testaceous red, apical joint 

 black : posterior area of pronotum, the scutellum, and corium 

 a little darker than the head and anterior area of pronotum ; 

 apical margin of scutellum with three small black spots, of 

 which the two lateral ones are sometimes obliterated ; mem- 

 brane greyish brown ; abdomen above testaceous red, 

 connexivum ochraceous ; body beneath ochraceous, thickly 

 finely punctate ; sternal lateral angles, and three irregular, 

 more or less broken longitudinal fasciae to sternum and 

 abdomen, black ; legs ochraceous, more or less spotted or 

 punctured with black ; structural characters as in generic 

 diagnosis. 



Long. 10 to 10^ mm.; exp. pronot. angl. 6 mm. 



Hob. Portuguese E.Africa; Chibaba, Lower Buzi River 

 (Sivynnerton, Brit. Mus.) ; Transvaal. 



Genus ^Eliomorpha. 



Tetratoma, Sign. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1851, p. 339 (nom. praeocc). 

 ALliomorpha, StSl, Ofv. Vet.-Ak. Forh. 1858, p. 313 (n. nom.). 

 Type, jE. simulans, Stal. 



