2G6 Mr. W. L. Distant on the 



mai'ginal ochraceous macular markings ; rostrum ochraceous, 

 basal and apical joints piceous ; femora black, their bases 

 and the whole of the tibiae and tarsi more or less ochraceous ; 

 antennae piceous, basal half of apical joint ochraceous, 

 second joint longest, third and fourth almost subequal in 

 length ; anterior femora robust, shortly spinose beneath. 



Long. 10 mm. 



Hab. Japanese Archipelago ; Tsushima Island (P. Hoist). 



Dieuches welatus, Dist. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (7) viii. 

 p. 505 (1901). 



Hab. Mashonaland; Umfili River (G. A. K. Marshall). 

 Nyasaland ; Valley of N. Rukuru, Karouga District (S. A. 

 Neave). Uganda; Entebbe (C. C. Gowdey). Abyssinia; 

 Gibe River (Ph. C. Zaphiro). 



The type was from Mashonaland. 



Dieuches parvipictus, sp. n. 



Head, pronotum, and scutelium black ; anterior half of 

 lateral margins and some small spots (usually two but some- 

 times four) on disk of pronotum, two spots near base and 

 extreme apex of scutelium ochraceous ; antennae ochraceous, 

 apex of third joint black, more or less mutilated in the 

 twelve specimens now before me ; corium ochraceous, 

 brownly punctate, extreme lateral margins pale and im- 

 punctate, a spot at base of clavus, a large spot near inner 

 posterior angle, a very small spot in a line with it on lateral 

 margin, and the apical margin black; body beneath black : 

 rostrum and legs ochraceous, apex of rostrum and usually 

 apical areas of the femora — more or less — black ; antennas 

 with the second and third joints almost subequal in length ; 

 scutelium with a more or less distinct, central, longitudinal 

 carinate line. 



Long. 7-8 mm. 



Hab. Katanga; Kambove and Luffra River (S. A. Neave). 



Allied to D. patruelis, Stal, but a smaller species with 

 both the pronotal lobes black. 



Dieuches consimilis, sp. n. 



Allied to the preceding species in general markings and 

 coloration, but a larger species with the basal joint and 

 apices of the remaining antennal joints black; posterior 

 pronotal lobe more strongly and coarsely punctate ; scutelium 



