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elongate, about one and a third times as long as breadth at 

 base, prominently attenuated from a little beyond middle ; 

 corium narrow and elongate, about three times as long as 

 broad ; membrane longitudinally somewhat furcately veined ; 

 legs somewhat robust ; tibiae sulcate. 



Maywamba purpurascens, sp. n. 



Body and legs purplish red ; membrane greyish white ; 

 antennae purplish red, fifth joint and apical half of fourth 

 paler ; head and anterior half of pronotum (in fresh and 

 unrubbed specimens) more or less greyishly pubescent; head 

 with the lateral lobes obliquely irregularly striate, central 

 lobe somewhat thickly punctate; pronotum finely trans- 

 versely wrinkled and punctate, the lateral areas obliquely or 

 transversely obscurely striate; scutellum finely wrinkled 

 and punctate ; corium thickly, finely punctate, membrane 

 greyish white, with a few small piceous spots ; other 

 structural characters as in generic diagnosis. 



Long. 17 to Vd\ mm. 



Hab. N.E. Rhodesia ; Serenje District, Congo Vree State, 

 W. of Kambove, 3500 to 4500 feet {Neave, Brit. Mus.) ; 

 Ovampo Land (Coll. Dist.). 



Genus Gellia. 

 Gellia, Stfil, Hem. Afr. i. p. 243 (1864). 

 Type, G. albivittis, Germ. 



Gellia bicolorata, sp. n. 



Head, antennae, scutellum, and corium reddish testaceous; 

 pronotum black, the inner margin of the produced apical 

 angles narrowly pale, the basal margin more or Jess reddish 

 ochraceous ; membrane pale, subhy aline ; head broad, con- 

 cave, a little broader near apex than at base ; antennae with 

 the first joint longer than either second, third, or fourth, 

 but shorter than fifth, second slightly snorter than third 

 which is slightly shoiter than fourth ; pronotum with the 

 lateral angles about reaching middle of head, their apices 

 obtusely subacute, the whole of ihe lateral areas including 

 apices rugulose, a moderately distinct transverse ridge be- 

 tween the humeral angles, the whole disk finely transversely 

 rugulose ; scutellum fiuely transversely rugulose ; corium 

 somewhat thickly finely punctate ; head beneath reddish 

 testaceous ; sternum and abdomen beneath ochraceous; pro- 

 sternum with the lateral areas black, finely transversely 



