Rhynchotal Family Lygseidae. 26 L 



(including eyes) narrower than anterior margin of pronotum ; 

 first joint of rostrum extending beyond base of head ; 

 posterior area of pronotum, scutellum and corium coarsely 

 punctate ; anterior femora strongly incrassate. 



Long. 8 mm. 



Hab. Australia; Adelaide River (./. J. Walker). 



The type of the genus Bosbequius was from Tenasserim 

 (Faun. Brit. Ind., Rhynch. ii. p. 65, fig. 1). 



Thebanus nigrinus, sp. n. 



Dull ochraceons; head, anterior lobe of pronotum, and 

 anterior area of scutellum black ; head beneath and sternum 

 black ; legs ochraceous ; abdomen beneath dark slaty-grey ; 

 antennas ochraceous, second joint a little longest, third and 

 fourth almost subequal in length ; pronotum thickly, some- 

 what coarsely punctate ; scutellum punctate, black before 

 the anterior branches of the cruciform carination, and dull 

 ochraceous behind them ; posterior margin of pronotum 

 concave before scutellum ; corium (excluding lateral mar- 

 ginal areas) darkly punctate ; membrane slaty-grey, slightly 

 passing the abdominal apex. 



Long. 3^ mm. 



Hab. Burma ; Karennee. 



Genus Lachnophoroides. 



Lachnophoroides, Dist. 'Nova Caledonia,' Zool. i. p. 881 (1914). 



Type, L. ornatipennis, from New Caledonia (ibid. pi. xi. 

 fig. 9 $ ). 



I am now able to amplify the description of this genus by 

 sexual characters, having only seen a single ? specimen 

 previously. 



$ . Pronotum distinctly longer than breadth at base; 

 anterior tibiae strongly sinuately curved and armed 

 with a short robust spine near middle of under 

 surface. 

 ? . Pronotum about as long as broad at base ; anterior 

 tibiae unarmed. 



Lachnophoroides crudelis. 



Pachymerus crudelis, Hagl. Ofv. Vet.-Akad. Forli. 1895, p. 462. 



Hab. W.Africa; Gaboon (fide Haglund). Lagos; Ondo 

 (A. B. S. Poivell). N.E. Rhodesia; Upper Luangwa R. 

 (S. A. Neave). Uganda Protect, between J unfa and 

 Busia, E. Busoga (S. A. Neave). Abyssinia (Lake Rudolph 

 Exped. — Ph. C. Zaphird). 



