468 Mr. W. L. Distant on Ethiopian fleteroptera. 
Pysttala dudgeoni, sp. n. 
Head, pronotum, corium, and membrane black, extreme 
base of corium and a small spot near its middle sanguineous ; 
body beneath and legs fuscous brown, subapical annulations 
to femora, apical halves of tibize, and the whole of the tarsi 
paler in hue ; connexivum ochraceous, with segmental quad- 
rate black spots, posterior lobe of pronotum with two spines, 
one on each lateral area, the lateral angles also strongly 
spinous, anterior pronotal lobe with six prominent spines— 
three on each lateral area ; scutellum with long and robustly 
curved spines—one apical and one on each laterai margin ; 
corium with four sublateral but no inner spines; connexivum 
with some spines at the segmental angles. 
Long. 39 mm. 
Hab. W. Africa ; Gold Coast, Volta River (Dr. Dudgeon). 
PLATYMERIS. 
Platymeris, Lap. Ess. Hém. p. 80 (1832) ; St&l (part.), Hem. Afr. iii. 
p. 124 (1865). 
‘«‘Thoracis lobo antico spinis longis destituto ; hemelytris margineque 
abdominis inermibus.” 
Type, P. (Reduvius) biguttata, Faby. 
Platymeris levicollis, sp. n. 
Black ; a prominent spot near middle of corium and annu- 
lations to femora sanguineous, apices of tibia and the tarsi 
more or less reddish ochraceous; antennz with the basal 
joint black, remaining joints obscure dark ochraceous. 
Long. 35-38 mm. 
Hab. North Nyasa (Farler) ; Zanzibar (Dr. W. Md. Aders) ; 
East Africa (German), Mpuapua. 
Allied to P. rhadamanthus, Gerst., from which it differs 
by the smoother and much less rugosely striated anterior 
lobe of the pronotum. 
Platymeris swirei, sp. n. 
Black, head and pronotum glossy black ; head before eyes, 
rostrum, legs, and connexivum ferruginous; a large pale 
greyish spot on disk of corium; antenne ferruginous, basal 
joint about as long as from apex of head to eyes; head and 
rostrum distinctly longly pilose ; pronotum sparingly longly 
pilose, the posterior angles distinctly spinous aud moderately 
