94 Mr. W. L. Distant on African PentatoTndse. 



yEliomorpha gazana, sp. n. 



Head, prouotum, and scutellum ochraceous ; head with 

 narrow lateral margins and a broad central longitudinal 

 fascia widened towards base and continued over pronotum, 

 where it is fused with a broad irregular basal margin, black ; 

 scutellum with a broad marginal fascia (extending about 

 half its length from base and containing a short ochraceous 

 central line) and a short elongate spot at apex, black ; 

 coriutn black, the costal margin narrowly ochraceous at 

 base ; membrane brownish ochraceous with fuscous veins ; 

 connexivum ochraceous, with black spots at the segmental 

 margins ; body beneath and legs pale ochraceous ; lateral 

 margins of head behind antennae, lateral margins (broadly) 

 of sternum, a central longitudinal fascia to abdomen beneath, 

 and lateral marginal spots at the incisures black; antennae 

 ochraceous, fourth joint fuscous, first joint short, not nearly 

 reaching apex of head, second slightly longer than third ; 

 head thickly, somewhat coarsely punctate, the lateral mar- 

 gins sinuate ; pronotum coarsely punctate, the lateral margins 

 almost obliquely straight ; scutellum transversely wrinkled, 

 more distinctly punctate at base and on lateral areas, a fine 

 central longitudinal carinate line traversing both pronotum 

 and scutellum ; corium thickly coarsely punctate. 



Long. 6 mm. 



Hab. S.E. Rhodesia ; Gaza Land, Mpudzi R. (G. A. K. 

 Marshall, Brit. Mus.). 



An unusually distinct species in this genus. 



Genus Hermolaus. 

 Hermolaut, Dist. Faun. B. I., Rkyuck. i. p. 169 (1902). 

 Type, //. typicus, Dist. 



Hermolaus purpurissatus. 



Eusarcoris purpurissatus, Reut. Ofv. Finsk. Fork. xxv. p. G (1882). 

 Hab. Ashanti ; Senegal. 



Hermolaus sudanensis, sp. n. 



Reddish ochraceous, thickly darkly punctate ; two trans- 

 verse cicatrices to the anterior area, the lateral angles and 

 posterior area of the pronotum, blackish or black ; scutellum 

 blackish, the lateral margins (excluding bases and apices) 

 ochraceous, extreme apical margin greyish ; corium pale 

 ochraceous, sparsely palely punctate ; membrane greyish, 



