368 Mr. W. L. Distant on Coreidae. 



Genus ELASMOPODA. 

 Elasmopoda affinis, sp. n. 



$ . Dark pitchy brown ; corium shortly ochraceously 

 pilose ; antenna?, eyes, rostrum, anterior and intermediate 

 legs, and posterior tarsi ochraceous ; anterior and intermediate 

 coxa>, and apices of femora piceous ; body beneath reddish 

 ochraceous, pro- and mesosternum somewhat paler, abdominal 

 spines piceous ; disk of apical segment and a marginal spot 

 on apical and penultimate segments piceous, the marginal 

 spots preceded by ochraceous shading. 



Pronotum somewhat narrow, anterior lateral margins entire, 

 not dentate, lateral angles produced in foliaceous subacute 

 spines, their margins dentate. 



Long. 21 millim.; exp. pronot. angl. 8 millim. 



Hah. British East Africa, Samburu (0. S. Betton, Brit. 

 Mus.). 



Closely allied in structure, colour, and general appearance 

 to E. undata, Dall., but differing by the narrower pronotum, 

 with its non-dentate anterior lateral margins and its narrower 

 and more acute lateral angles. 



Genus HOLOPTERNA. 



Ilolopterna Rothi. 



Mictis Rothii, Dall. List Hem. i. p. 395. n. 28 (1852). 



Cypia rubra, Lethierry, Ann. Mus. Civ. Genova, xvi. p. 286 (1881). 



Cipia rubra, Leth. & Sev. Cat. Gen. He'm. t. ii. p. 8 (1894). 



This species varies in the colour of the anterior and inter- 

 mediate femora, which are either red or black ; the corium is 

 either unicolorous or with the apical half darker. Dallas's 

 specimens of II. Rothii exhibit the variation shown in 

 Lethierry 's species. 



Holopterna Elliot i, sp. n. 



Castaneous ; head, scutellum, inner claval margin, lateral 

 areas of corium (excluding apex), membrane, rostrum, coxee 

 and trochanters, anterior and intermediate femora, base of 

 posterior femora, posterior tibise, a broad central mesosternal 

 patch, abdominal tubercles, and apex of abdomen piceous. 



Antennae with the third joint shortest, second and fourth 

 joints subequal, first joint a little longest and thickest. Head 

 very distinctly cleft at apex, eyes brownish. Pronotum 

 finely rugulose, lateral margins distinctly pilose, lateral 



