264 Mr. W. L. Distant on 



corium very pale ochraceous or stramineous ; membrane 

 black ; connexivum above and beneath flavous ; abdomen 

 beneath and apex of rostrum castaneous; sternum, legs, 

 antenna?, and a spot on apical abdominal segment reddish 

 ochraceous ; outer streaks to femora, basal areas of tibise, and 

 the tarsi fiavescent; apical segmental abdominal angles 

 flavescent ; rostrum reaching, but not passing, the third 

 abdominal segment ; antennas five-jointed, second joint 

 scarcely more than half the length of third ; lateral posterior 

 angles of pronotum spinously produced, spines distinctly 

 recurved. 



Long. 18 ; exp. pronot. angl. 9| mm. 



Eumecopus pallescens, sp. n. 



Above pale stramineous, thickly piceously punctate, the 

 punctures more confluent at lateral areas of pronotum and 

 scutellum and in a central longitudinal streak to corium ; 

 head with the punctures in longitudinal series, the ocelli 

 bright carmine-red; lateral margins of pronotum, scutellum 

 and corium, a central longitudinal fascia to pronotum and 

 scutellum, and apex of the last pale stramineous, impunctate ; 

 connexivum flavescent, inwardly darkly punctate ; membrane 

 piceous, its apical area paler ; body beneath and legs pale 

 ochraceous ; apex of rostrum and stigmatal spots black ; 

 linear streaks to femora and tibijB, apices of posterior femora 

 and tibise, and apices of the tarsi brownish castaneous ; 

 antennai pale brownish, bases of the second, third, and fourth 

 joints a little paler in hue; apical segmental abdominal 

 angles flavescent ; rostrum reaching the fourth abdominal 

 segment ; antennae four-jointed, second and third joints 

 longest, second a little longer than third; lateral posterior 

 angles of pronotum spinously straightly produced. 



Long. 19-20; exp. pronot. angl. 8-8i mm. 



Dandinus, gen. nov. 



Elongately ovate ; head broad and elongate, almost as 

 long as the pronotum, its lateral margins a little sinuate, its 

 apex slightly widened and rounded, lateral lobes a little 

 longer than the central lobe, their apices inwardly angulated 

 but not meeting ; eyes small, touching the anterior margin 

 of the pronotum ; antennae five-jointed, almost as long as 

 head and pronotum together, first joint almost hidden 

 beneath head, a little incrassate, second and third more 

 slender, second longer than third, fourth and h'fth thickened, 



