226 MEMIPTERA. 



Above shining black, thickly and finely punctured. Head 

 deep reddish orange, with the vertex black. Thorax with the 

 lateral margins narrowly edged with reddish orange, and with a 

 transverse, subimpunctate pale yellow band, running from one 

 lateral angle to the other and touching the anterior margin. 

 Scutellum with all its margins and a transverse band across the 

 middle pale yellow ; the black patch enclosed between the trans- 

 verse band and the base is divided by a narrow longitudinal yel- 

 low line. Coriaceous portion of the elytra with the outer margin 

 reddish orange ; membrane black. Margins of the abdomen red- 

 dish orange. Body beneath, legs and rostrum deep reddisl 

 orange, shining. Abdomen with the margins finely punctured. 

 Breast finely punctured. 

 a. Port Natal. 



t Colour greyish above ; abdomen black or brassy, with the mar* 

 gins pale. 



a. Lateral angles of the thorax not prominent. 



5. EYSARCORIS distactus, n, s. 



E. supra griseo-testaceus, fusco-punctatus, capite, thoracisque 

 maculis 2 anticis nigro-aeneis ; thoracis lateribus rectis ; scu- 

 tello utrinque basi macula flava ; antennarum articulo secundo 

 tertio longiori. $ . 

 Long. lin. 3. 



Above greyish testaceous, rather thickly and finely punctu 

 with brown. Head black, slightly brassy. Eyes black; ocell 

 red. Thorax with the antero-lateral margins straight, the lateri 

 angles not prominent ; the anterior portion much paler than the 

 posterior, with a transverse brassy black spot behind each ante- 

 rior angle. Scutellum with a yellow impunctate spot in each 

 basal angle. Membrane transparent, nearly colourless, with its 

 nervures very slightly tinged with brown, and its inner basal angle 

 immaculate. Abdomen beneath with its disc deep brassy brown 

 or black, the sides thickly and finely punctured, the centre im- 

 punctate; the margins broadly testaceous, thickly and finely 

 punctured with brown. Breast testaceous, so thickly covered 

 with brown punctures as to appear nearly brown. Legs pale, 

 testaceous ; thighs with numerous brown points. Rostrum tes- 

 taceous, with the tip black. Antennae pale testaceous, with the 

 two apical joints brownish ; second joint distinctly longer than 

 the third. 



a. . Presented by the Entomological Club. 



