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



rugulose; meso- and metasterna spotted with black on each 

 side, the latter with a large lateral spot ; abdomen with two 

 discal series of black spots and with a series of submarginal 

 segmental black lines ; legs more or less castaneous. 



Long 14 mm. 



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

 (Neave, Brit. Mus.). 



Gellia dilatata. 

 Phyllocephala dilatata, Sign. Ami. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1851, p. 316, pi. x. 

 tig. 13. 



Hab. Congo Free State ; Katanga, Lufira R., W. of 

 Kambove {Neave, Brit. Mus.). 



This species is not included in Schouteden's Catalogue of 

 the Pentatomidse of the " Congo Beige." The allied species 

 described by Schouteden (G. tristis) was, on the contrary, 

 not found by Mr. Neave. 



Gellia incognita, sp. n. 



Head and pronotum pale ochraceous ; basal margin of 

 pronotum, corium, and membrane black ; scutellum ochra- 

 ceous, punctured and mottled with black ; body beneath 

 piceous brown ; anterior half of head, lateral margins of 

 sternum, coxse, rostrum, and a central longitudinal fascia to 

 abdomen paler in hue; head concave, laterally somewhat 

 thickly punctate, distinctly angulately narrowed in front of 

 e y es j pronotum with the anterior angles of the dilated 

 lateral margins subacute, but not quite reaching middle of 

 head the whole surface more or less finely transversely 

 ru°-ulose, margins of the cicatrices black, the black basal 

 maro-in notched inwardly ; scutellum finely transversely 

 ruo-ulose ; corium thickly finely punctate ; antennae piceous, 

 basal joint longer than either second or third, second shorter 

 than third, which is almost subequal in length to fourth, 

 fifth longest and moderately incrassate; sternum sparsely 

 coarsely punctate, abdomen beneath thickly finely punctate ; 

 anterior legs piceous (remaining legs mutilated in type). 



Long. 12 mm. 



Hab. ? 



I have had this specimen in my collection without a locality 

 for more than twenty years. I feel now that it ought to be 

 described for its colour-markings and structure are very 

 distinct. It is more than likely to prove an African species. 



