322 Mr. W. L. Distant's Rhynchotal Notes. 



Genus Tricockps. 



Tricorepx, Buckt. Monogi-. Membrac. p. 249 (190.'}). 

 Tniiihiisa, Dist. Insect. Transvaal, p. 21(5 (1908), iioni. pra^oco. 

 I'ainbusana, Uist. Ann. & M;ig. Nat. Hist. (8j ix. p. (352 (1912), n. nom. 



Type, T. brunnipennis, Germ. 



I did not recognize Buckton's fjenus at tlie time, as his 

 figure of the typical s|)ecies is defective, and he gave no 

 reference as to its origin ; he also placed it in juxtaposition 

 to a genus with which it had no affinity. 



Tricoceps brunnipennis. 



Cvntrotus hrimnijennis, Germ. R"v. Silb. iii. p. 2o7. 4 (IS-Doj : Fair.n. 



Ann. Soo. Ent. Fr. ser. 2, iv. p. 512 (ls4'i). 

 Tricoceps brimneipennis, Buekt. Aluuosjr. Menibiac. p. 249 (1903). 



Hab. S. A^'rica. 



Buckton gave a different spelling to the specific name and 

 no reference to its author. 



Tricoceps huhipennis. 



Centrotus hubipentiis, Fairm. Ann. Soc. Eut. Fr. ser. 2, iv. p. oil (1846) ; 



IStal, Hem. Air. iv. p. 95 (1866). 

 Tamhitsa bubipennis, Dist. Insect. Trausvaal. p. 216, tab. xxi. fig. 17 



(1908). 



Hab. S. Africa. 



Tricoceps curvispina, sp. n. 



Body and legs black; tegmiua bronzy brown, base and a 

 costal line black, a large spot at posterior angle of inner 

 tegniiiial margin castaneous ; pronotum thickly punctate, 

 anterior lateral processes recurved, somewhat long, their 

 apices subacute, the disk strcmgly centrally cariuate, the 

 posterior process tricarinate, strongly rais( d at base and theu 

 straightly obliquely continued to posterior angle of inner 

 tegniinal margin, which it distinctly passes, its apex sub- 

 acute ; scutellum with its apex prominently upwardly 

 recurved. 



Long., inch tegm., 5-f) mm. ; exp. lat. pronot. process. 

 3|-4 mm. 



Hab. Congo Free State ; Katanga, Kambove, 4000- 

 5000 ft. (S. A. Neavc). 



Allied to T. brunnipennis, Germ., but with the lateral 

 pronotal processes lon-er, much more recurved, and con- 

 siderablv more acute. 



