Rhyncliotal Family Lyg?eida3. 175 



Luangwa R. (S. A. Neave). East Africa [German] Rd. to 

 Kilossa, Usagara Dist. (S. A. Neave). 



Graptostethus carpenteri, sp. n. 



Head and antennae black; pronotum testaceous with a 

 large basal black spot at each posterior angle; scutellum 

 black; corium greyish ocliraceous, an elongate black spot 

 on apical half of clavus and a central rounded black spot 

 abutting on middle of costal margin ; membrane black with 

 a transverse spot attenuated interiorly and a somewhat large 

 apical spot greyish white ; connexivum ocliraceous with 

 black spots ; body beneath pale purplish red, coxal areas 

 paler and more greyish in hue ; head beneath, rostrum, legs, 

 two sternal spots on each lateral mai'gin, small lateral 

 abdominal segmental spots, and the apical abdominal seg- 

 ment black ; antennae with the second, third, and fourth 

 joints almost subequal in length; scutellum longitudinally 

 carinate on apical half ; membrane passing abdominal 

 apex. 



Long. 4|-5 mm. 



Hab. East Africa [German], Lulanguru (G. D. H. 

 Carpenter) . 



Allied to G.pictus, Dist. 



Graptostethus flammatus, sp. n. 



Testaceous red ; apex of head and a small spot at inner 

 margin of each eye, pronotum with the anterior marginal 

 area and a large spot on each side of disk, scutellum (ex- 

 cluding apical central carination), corium with the clavus, 

 internal area and a sublateral marginal spot beyond middle, 

 membrane, body beneath, rostrum, antennas, and legs black ; 

 lateral margins of sternum and abdomen and abdominal 

 disk more or less testaceous ; sternal and coxal margins 

 greyish white ; anlennse with the second joint about three 

 times as long as the first ; head and pronotum more or less 

 obscurely punctate ; basal angles of pronotum moderately 

 rounded, the lateral margins moderately thickened and 

 slightly recurved ; scutellum prominently centrally carinate. 



Long. 12 mm. 



Hab. Uganda; Kampala (C. C. Goivdey and S. A. Neave). 



A species somewhat superficially resembling above the 

 well-known palasarctic Lygceus famitiaris, Fabr. 



Graptostethus swynnertoni. 



Lygceus swynnertoni, Dist. Ann, Mag. Nat. Hist. (8) xv. p. 504 

 (1915). 



The typical specimen described did not afford me a good 



