268 Mr. W. L. Distant on the 



antennae with the basal joint moderately stoutest, slightly 

 apically curved, shorter than second joint which again is a 

 little shorter than third, fourth almost subequal in length 

 to first ; rostrum reaching the anterior coxse ; pronotum 

 elongate, longer than breadth at base, lateral margins of 

 anterior lobe slightly oblique, those of the posterior lobe 

 more prominently oblique, the posterior angles subnodulose, 

 basal margin almost truncate, very slightly concave, anterior 

 margin truncate ; scutellum moderately long and slender, 

 slightly longer than broad at base, lateral margins straightly 

 oblique ; legs elongate, anterior femora finely spined beneath, 

 anterior tibiee slightly dilated at apex ; membrane passing 

 abdominal apex. 



Type, M. dispar, Hagl. 



Metadieuches dispar. 

 Dieuches dispar, Hagl. Ofv. Vet.-Akad. Forh. 1895, p. 460. 



Hab. Gaboon (Sjdstedt). Cameroons {Escalera). Uganda; 

 Entebbe (Dr. C. A. Wiggins and C. C. Goivdey), Mwera, 

 Kyanja, Mabira Forest, Katanga River (C. C. Goivdey), 

 shores of L. Isolt or Wamala, 3800 ft., and S. of L. George 

 (S. A. Neave). 



Poeantius variegatus, sp. n. 



Head and anterior lobe of pronotum black ; posterior lobe 

 of pronotum dark castaneous and coarsely punctate, the 

 anterior and posterior lobes separated by a transverse ochra- 

 ceous fascia ; scutellum black ; corium ochraceous, a longi- 

 tudinal fascia in clavus, and nearly the apical half of corium 

 black, the latter containing a narrow transverse pale ochra- 

 ceous fascia a little beyond its middle ; membrane dull 

 greyish; head beneath and rostrum dull, dark castaneous, 

 posterior margin of metasternum more or less greyish white ; 

 abdomen beneath black ; legs black, apices of anterior and 

 intermediate femoi'a and the anterior tibiae ochraceous ; 

 (posterior legs mutilated in type) ; antennae with the basal 

 joint ochraceous, second and third joints black, second a 

 little longer than third (fourth joint mutilated in type) ; 

 head deflected, immersed to eyes, a little longer than broad ; 

 pronotum with a central longitudinal, ill- defined carinate 

 line; scutellum a little longer than broad ; rostrum about 

 reaching the intermediate coxae. 



Long. 6^ mm. 



Hab. Gaza Land; near Chirinda Forest (G. A. K, Mar- 

 shall). 



