Transvaal, Mashonaland, and British Nyasaland. 299 



fascia of brown punctures on each side, spiracles piceous, 

 extreme lateral margins brownish. 



Antenna? reddish ochraceous, fifth joint, and fourth joint 

 excluding base, piceous. 



Long. 10 millim. 



Hab. Transvaal, Lydenburg District {Pretoria Mus. and 

 Coll. DisL). 



Allied to D. subvittata, Stal, but smaller, more ovate, 

 pronotum not constricted, &c. 



Tropicorypha placida, Walk. 



Pentatoma plucida, Walk. Cat. Het. ii. p. 297. n. 93 (1867). 

 Pentatoma immunis, id. ibid. iii. p. 560 (1868). 



Ochraceous ; lateral margins of head near eyes and the 

 ej es black, ocelli red ; antennas very pale ochraceous, fourth 

 and fifth joints and the apex of the third reddish ochraceous. 

 Pronotum with two small central discal dark spots. A sub- 

 obsolete pale fascia traversing pronotum and scutellum. Body 

 beneath, rostrum, and legs stramineous; apex of rostrum and 

 sometimes a central spot on posterior margin of fifth abdo- 

 minal segment piceous ; apices of tibia} and the tarsi reddish 

 ochraceous. 



Antenna} with the fourth joint longest, third and fifth sub- 

 equal in length. 



Long. 15 millim. 



Hab. Transvaal, Pretoria {Distant) ; Zoutpansberg {Kcess- 

 ii er). 



A somewhat variable species above, but always to be 

 determined by the colour of the antenna}, the two discal spots 

 to pronotum, and, in the Transvaal specimens now before me, 

 by the fascia to pronotum and scutellum. 



Panda, gen. nov. 



Body ovate above, convex beneath. Head broad, long, 

 laterally sinuate, rounded in front, lateral lobes longer than 

 the central. Antennae short, basal joint not nearly reaching 

 the apex of the head, second a little longer than the third, 

 fourth and fifth moderately incrassated. Pronotum with the 

 anterior angles acute, the lateral margins crenulated, the 

 lateral angles prominent. 



Other characters generally as in llerda, iStal, to which 

 this genus is allied. 



