llhynchotal Family Lygoeidae. 263 



longitudinal narrow carination ; scutellura a little foveately 

 depressed at base. 



Long. Si-lO mm. 



Hob. Blue Nile (E. S. Crespin), nr. mouth of Divider R. 

 and Roseires (S. S. Flower). N.W. shore of L. Nyasa, from 

 Florence Bay to Karonga (S. A. Neave). 



Aphanus ferruglneus, sp. n. 



Head black; antenna} with the basal joint black, second 

 and third joints ferruginous ; pronotum pale ferruginous, 

 coarsely darkly punctate, the anterior area (excluding 

 margins) black ; scutellum black, coarsely darkly punctate, 

 becoming paler and more ferruginous on apical area, and 

 with an ochraceous spot on each lateral margin near base ; 

 corium brownish ochraceous, darkly punctate, with two 

 small obscure black spots in oblique series on apical half, 

 the lateral margins narrowly impunctate ; body beneath 

 black, the posterior sternal segmental margins, rostrum, 

 and legs ferruginous ; second joint of antennae considerably 

 longer than third ; apex of central lobe of head distinctly 

 prominent ; in some specimens the femora are distinctly 

 darker — almost black — than the tibiae ; basal joint of rostrum 

 passing base of head ; membrane, a little paler than corium, 

 reaching abdominal apex. 



Long. 8-8i mm. 



Hob. Nyasaland (Cotterell) ; W. shore of L. Nyasa between 

 Domira Bay and Kotakota (S. A. Neave). N.E. Rhodesia ; 

 Mid-Luangwa Valley (S. A. Neave). 



Aphanus apicalis. 



Rhyparochromus apicalis, Ball. List Hem. ii. p. 562 (1852). 

 Rhyparochromus turyidifemur, Stal, OtV. Vet. -Air. Forh. 1855, p. 32. 1. 

 Rhi/parochroinus niyromaculatus, Stal, Ofv. Vet.-Ak. Forh. 1855, 



p. 32. 2. 

 Beosus apicalis, Stal, Hem. Afr. ii. p. 165 (1865). 

 Aphanus erosus, Dist. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (7) viii. p. 501 (1901). 



In describing my A. erosus I wrote, " Allied to A. apicalis, 

 Dall., differing by the exceedingly coarse punctuation on 

 the lateral margins of the pronotum and corium, &c." 

 Compared, with the type of Dallas, that held good at the 

 time of writing, but since then a large number of species 

 have reached the British Museum, and intermediate varieties 

 occur. 



Hob. S. Africa (Brit. Mus.). Ovampo L. {Eriksson). 



