98 Mr. W. L. Distant on African Pentatomidae. 



subequal in length ; pronotum almost twice as broad at base as 

 long, lateral margins oblique, very obscurely sinuate, extreme 

 edge subacute and slightly reflexed, anterior angles shortly but 

 distinctly spined, posterior angles rounded, not prominent ; 

 scutellum much longer than broad at base, the apical third 

 attenuated, a small curved linear callosity at each basal 

 angle ; corium twice as long as its greatest breadth ; mem- 

 brane slightly passing abdominal apex, the veins mostly 

 furcate ; mesosternum centrally carinate, the carination in a 

 globular depression ; base of the abdomen unarmed or very 

 slightly centrally tuberculously produced. 



Allied to the Oriental genus Critheus, Stal, but with the 

 rostrum shorter, membranal veins furcate, &c. 



Amatembuna neavei, sp. n. 



Ochraceous, thickly irregularly darkly punctate ; a linear 

 callosity at basal angles and the apex (broadly) of scutellum 

 and a somewhat large levigate spot on apical third of 

 corium yellowish white ; membrane more or less fuliginous ; 

 connexivum ochraceous, transversely marked with black at 

 the incisures ; body beneath ochraceous ; abdomen beneath 

 Avith two broad longitudinal black fasciae on disk, which meet 

 or almost meet near apex ; meso- and metasterna also more 

 or less marked with black ; legs dark ochraceous ; antennse 

 with the first, second, and third joints ochraceous or testa- 

 ceous, fourth and fifth joints more or less piceous or black ; 

 head thickly finely blackly punctate ; pronotum more coarsely 

 and sparsely punctate, with scattered, transverse, linear, 

 callous, pale yellowish markings ; scutellum coarsely sparsely 

 blackly punctate, before apex shortly, distinctly, longitu- 

 dinally impressed, the apical pale area very finely and ob- 

 scurely punctate,, sternum sparsely coarsely punctate, abdo- 

 men thickly and more finely punctate. 



Long., $ 11, $ 12 mm.; exp. pronot. angl. 5^-6 mm. 



Hab. Congo Free State ; W. of Kambove, 3500-4500 ft. 

 (Neove, Brit. Mus.). 



Genus Euryaspis. 

 Euryaspis, Sign. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. (2) ix. p. 342 (1801). 



Type, E. transver salts , Sign. 



Euryaspis congolensis, sp. n. 



Head ochraceous, the basal margin black, the lateral lobes 

 inwardly margined with black punctures, and thus apparently 

 enclosing two pale ochraceous spots ; pronotum with the 



