Rhynchotal Family Lyg&idse. 487 



apical half of corium black ; membrane with the base 

 black, and with a large discal -spot fuscous with the veins 

 black; antennae with the first and second joints snbequal iu 

 length, each a little shorter than fourth ; rostrum passing 

 the anterior coxa? ; pronotum with the anterior lobe smooth, 

 shining, black, punctate anteriorly and laterally, with two 

 finely impressed central longitudinal lines, posterior lobe 

 more opaque and thickly punctate, anterior lobe not promi- 

 nently broadened as iu M. philippinensis, Dist., but gradually 

 somewhat convexly narrowed to apex ; membrane reaching 

 or very slightly passing the anterior margin of the apical 

 abdominal segment ; seutellum centrally, longitudinally 

 carinate. 



Var. Abdomen beneath and the legs brownish ochraceous. 



Long. 5-5 7? mm. 



hhib. Philippine Islands (E. Simon). 



A species readily distinguished from M. philippinensis, 

 Dist., by its small size and structure of the pronotum, &c. 

 Bergroth has recently described another small species, M. 

 lacertosus, from the same habitat, but, as he states " pro- 

 notum in the male with the greatest width before the middle " 

 and with different colour-markings to the " elytra," it cannot 

 be confused with his specific creation. 



**■ 

 Dinomachus marshalli, Dist. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (7) viii. 



p. 473(1901). 



Bergroth, my constant but by no means infallible critic, 

 has recently (Medd. Mus. Zool. Afd., Gottenborg, p. 6, 

 1914) referred to my very short and quite misleading 

 " description of the genus." He states that I have " omitted 

 the most important character of D. marshalli, viz., the 

 extraordinary length of the rostrum, which reaches the 

 middle of the abdomen.-" As I had only an imperfect 

 specimen before me when I wrote my description (I described 

 the imperfect condition of the antenna?), I could not describe 

 a mutilated rostrum. However, few regard Bergroth's 

 animadversions too seriously. 



Add. Hab. Mashonaland ; SaVsbury {Marshall). Mozam- 

 bique; Bazi River, Zululand (Bell-Marley and Warren). 

 Transvaal; Lydeuburg {Krantz) ; Natal; Durban (Bell- 

 Marley) — Brit. Mus. 



In the above series the length varies from 8 to lli_ mm. 



I have already described species of Dinomachus from the 

 Oriental Region, aud I now add another two species from 

 Australia. 



