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without the central carinate longitudinal line which is 

 always more or less pronounced in D. parvipictus. 



Long. 9-10 mm. 



Hab. Uganda; Entebbe (C. C. Gowdey). Katanga; 

 Kambove (S. A. Neave). Abyssinia (C. Singer). 



Dieuches smithi, sp. n. 



Head and anterior lobe of prouotum testaceous, posterior 

 pronotal lobe ochraceous, thickly darkly punctate, lateral 

 pronotal margins pale, impunctate ; scutellum testaceous, 

 extreme apex pale ochraceous ; corium dark ochraceotis or 

 brownish ochraceous, lateral margins and a large irregular 

 spot before apex pale ochraceous ; membrane brownish 

 ochraceous ; body beneath testaceous ; lateral margins of 

 sternum, posterior margin of metasternum, and lateral 

 abdominal margins ochraceous ; rostrum and legs ochra- 

 ceous, apical areas of femora and apices of the tibiae piceous ; 

 antennae ochraceous, the basal joint and apices of remaining 

 joints dark testaceous or piceous, second and fourth joints 

 longest and subequal in length; pronotum with a central 

 longitudinal carinate line on posterior lobe ; first joint of 

 rostrum about reaching base of head ; membrane not quite 

 reaching abdominal apex in <$ , distinctly shorter in $ . 



Long. 10-11 mm. 



Hab. S. Africa {Dr. Smith's Coll.). Graham's Town 

 (F. Pym). 



Allied to D. umbrifer, Stal. 



Dieuches sloggetti, sp. n. 



Black ; lateral margins of pronotum and corium, second 

 joint and base of third joint of antennae (fourth joint muti- 

 lated), tibiae and tarsi stramineous or pale ochraceous ; 

 second joint of antennae much longer than third ; pronotum 

 somewhat narrow and elongate, posterior lobe thickly punc- 

 tate ; corium and clavus more or less thickly punctate; 

 first joint of rostrum about reaching base of head. 



Long. 9 mm. 



Hab. S. Africa; Deelfontein [Col. Sloggett). 



Metadieuches, gen. nov. 



Head robust, about as long as breadth between eyes, which 

 almost reach antei'ior margin of pronotum or are not far 

 removed from same, in front of eyes laterally strongly 

 obliquely sinuate, the apex of the central lobe prominent ; 



