264 Mr. W. L. Distant on the 



Transvaal; Pretoria (Distant), Lydenburg (Krantz). N.E. 

 Rhodesia; Mid-Luangwa Valley (Neave). Blue Nile; 

 Roseires {Flower). Congo (Richardson). 



Aphanus albigera, sp. n. 



Head and anterior area of pronotum black, posterior 

 pronotal area ochraceous, brownly punctate, and at the 

 lateral marginal junctions of these two areas a somewhat 

 large pale ochraceous spot ; scutellum black ; corium 

 ochraceous, thickly darkly punctate, extreme lateral margin 

 impunctate, inner claval margin for about half its length 

 from base pale ochraceous and impunctate, from thence to 

 apex very thickly blackly punctate, a short elongate black 

 line near outer claval margin, followed by a large black spot 

 near and outside claval apex, the apical margin of corium 

 narrowly black, the two last markings separated by a small 

 pale impunctate spot ; membrane brownish with the venation 

 somewhat paler in hue; body beneath, rostrum, and legs 

 black, coxal spots and narrow, irregular posterior margins 

 to sternal segments pale ochraceous ; antennae with the 

 third joint shortest, second and fourth subequal in length. 



Long. 6-6^ mm. 



Hub. South Africa; Grahamstown. Natal ; Durban 

 (F. Muir). 



Allied to A. apicalis, Dall., but a smaller and narrower 

 species, mai kings of the pronotum and short third joint of 

 antennae different. 



Aphanus nigrellus, sp. n. 



Head, antennae, pronotum, and scutellum black, lateral 

 pronotal margins ochraceous; corium dull ochraceous, two 

 short claval lines and the apical area black, the latter con- 

 taining a prominent, central, transverse greyish-white spot, 

 and the extreme apical angle also of that colour ; membrane 

 griseo-fuscous, with an apical white spot; body beneath, 

 rostrum, and legs black; antennas somewhat robust, third 

 joint a little shorter than second or fourth joints ; pronotal 

 lateral margins distinctly, somewhat longly pilose. 



Long. 6 mm. 



Hab. Nyasaland ; between Ft. Mangoche and Chikala 

 Boma (S. A. Neave). 



Allied to both A. apicalis, Dall. and the preceding species 

 here described — A. albigera, but differing by the colour of 

 the pronotum and its longly pilose lateral margins, &c. 



