96 Mr. W. L. Distant on African Pentatomidee. 



Hab. S.E. Rhodesia ; Gaza Land, Cliirinda Forest [David 

 Odendaal, Brit. Mus.). 



Agonoscelis neavei, sp. n. 



Above reddish testaceous ; head with the lateral margins 

 (excluding apices) and lateral margins of the central lobe 

 from in front of eyes black ; antennae black, basal joint 

 ochraceous above; pronotum with the lateral margins and 

 base of lateral margins to corium somewhat broadly orange- 

 yellow ; corium suffused with purplish red ; connexivum 

 orange-yellow, transversely marked with black on each side 

 of the incisures ; membrane pale fuliginous, the veins black ; 

 body beneath, rostrum, and legs ochraceous ; two small spots 

 on pro- and mesosterna, a spot on metasterna, abdominal 

 spiracles, small marginal spots at incisures, discal abdominal 

 spots arranged in four series, apex of rostrum, two spots on 

 apical areas of femora, apices of tibiae, and the tarsi black ; 

 second joint of antennae a little shorter than third ; head 

 (including eyes) about as broad as long and about as long as 

 pronotum, which is coarsely thickly punctate and has the 

 lateral margins distinctly renexed ; corium thickly punctate, 

 without callous spots ; membrane moderately passing abdo- 

 minal apex ; rostrum slightly passing the base of the last 

 abdominal segment ; abdomen above reddish testaceous ; 

 length from apex of head to apex of membrane about two and 

 a half times the breadth at pronotal angles. 



Long. 10^-11 mm. 



Hab. Congo Free State, Katanga, Kambove, 4000-5000 ft. 

 (Neave, Brit. Mus.). 



Agonoscelis pubemla. 

 Agonoscelis puberula, StSl, Ofv. Vet.-Ak. Forh. 1853, p. 216. 



The British Museum has recently received specimens of 

 this species from Lehututu, Bechuanaland Protectorate, and 

 sent by Mr. R. B. Woosnam, who writes they are " a plague 

 in the waggons : in millions." 



Genus ^Ithemenes. 

 AMiemenes, Stal, En. Hem. v. pp. 57 & 74 (,1876). 

 Type, M. nigropunctatus, Sign. 



jEthemenes chloris. 



Pentatoma chloris, Westw. in Hope, Cat. Hem. i. p. 38 (1837). 

 Pentatoma {Veterna) unicolor, Stal, Hem. Afr. i. p. 158 (1864). 



