308 Mr. W. L. Distant on Rhynchota from the 



marginal ochraceous suffusions, bases of lateral margins 

 purplish red ; membrane pale greenish. Connexivum with 

 its margins purplish red. Body beneath and legs pale 

 greenish ; femora and tarsi shaded with ochraceous ; rostrum 

 reddish ochraceous. 



Var. — Body above uniformly green, without the ochraceous 

 suffusions. 



Body broad, pronotal angles subprominent and rounded. 

 Antennae with the second and third joints subequal in length 

 and shorter than fourth and fifth. Kostrum just passing the 

 posterior coxa?. 



Long. 18 millim. ; exp. pronot. angl. 10 millim. 



Hab. Mashonaland, near Salisbury (G. A. K. Marshall). 



Enryaspis mashonce, sp. n. 



Body above and beneath with legs and rostrum luteous. 

 Ocelli and eyes reddish ; antenna? with the third, fourth, and 

 fifth joints more or less reddish ochraceous. Body above 

 sparingly and irregularly punctate; scutellum with a large 

 concolorous levigate spot in each basal angle. Antenna? 

 robust, apex of the third joint and the whole of the fourth 

 and fifth joints considerably thickened. 



Long. 9 millim. 



Hab. Mashonaland, near Salisbury (G. A. K. Marshall). 



The specimen from which the above description is taken, 

 like most pale-coloured species, is more or less shaded or dis- 

 coloured. I have considered such shadings as discolorations, 

 though there are suggestions of a large darker bifid spot near 

 apex of scutellum. 



Subfam. Asopixj£. 



Mecosoma Marshall/, sp. n. 

 Macrorhaphis spurcata, Walk. 

 Afrius figuratus, Germ. 

 Glypsas conspicuus, "Westw. 



Mecosoma Marshall V, sp. n. 



Head pale reddish ; apical third of lateral lobes, extreme 

 apex of central lobe, and a basal patch behind each eye bluish 

 green ; eyes and antenna? piceous, ocelli red. Pronotum pale 

 red ; a lateral and anterior (connected) submarginal fascia 

 bluish green j a very large discal, coarsely punctate, pale 

 piceous patch, extending from near base to two thirds of the 

 pionotal area, its lateral margins oblique. Scutellum red, 

 sparingly and coarsely punctate ; a bluish-black spot in each 



