323 Mr. W. L. Distant's lihynchotal Notes. 



Phtiijhelus flavus. 



Ceutrvtnsflavu.i, Si<:n. in Thonis. Arch. Ent. ii. p. 339 (1858). 

 Plutijbelusjiavm, tStal, Hem. Afr. iv. p. 9li (18G(i). 

 Ophiceiitrus varipeiDiis, JJuckt. Moiiogr. ^ieiiibrac. p. 2-jO, pi. Ivii. 

 tig. U (1903J. 



Uab. Calabar. 



PlatybeJus iiisic/uis, sp. n. 



Head, pronotuni, scutcllmn, body l)eneath, and le<^s 

 l)lack ; tarj;i ochraceous : teguiiiia pale sliiiiiiig ociuaceuus, 

 the base and a spot on costal margin beyond middle black, 

 a brownish spot on inner margin near posterior angle ; 

 pronotum punctate, the anterior margin truncate, the lateral 

 ])rocesses robust, their apices recurved and subacute, poste- 

 rior process arched above scutelluui, where it is rol)ust ami 

 impinging on inner tegmiual maigiu before the })osterior 

 angle, and thence attenuated and recurved to apex, which 

 passes the posterior angle. 



Long., incl. tegm., 5 mm. ; exp. lat. pronot. process. 3| mm. 



Hub. Near Lake Ny:issa {Thelwall, Brit. Mus.). 



]\LviKVA, gen. nov. 



Pronotum very strongly centrally longitudinally ridged, 

 the lateral processes somewhat short, broad, sublamiiuite, 

 the apical nuirgius oblique, the posteiior process impinging 

 on the scutellum and tegmiua, laterally broad and sub- 

 laminate for about half its length, wiiere it is convex above 

 and then suddenly attenuated to apex, which passes the 

 jKistcrior angle of the inner tegminal margin ; face mode- 

 rately globose : legs simple, not dilated; tegmina with four 

 apical cells. 



Maunja gibbosulus. 



Centnitus yibbosulii!', ^Yclllv. Jouni. Linn. .Soc. Loud., Zool. x. p. 187 

 (18«8j. " 



IJub. Macassar (fVallace). 



AxTiALciDAS, gen. nov. 



Pronotum broad, strongly centrally carinate. the posterior 

 process prominently couvexly, laminately raised, its margins 

 strongly carinate, the apex shortly acute and not passing 

 the posterior angle of the inner tegminal margin, the lateral 

 angles broad and robust, their apices obliquely truncate. 



