328 



Mr. W. L. Distant's Rhynchotal Sote^. 



passes the posterior angle of the inner tcgminal margin ; 

 scutelluni a little lon^^er than broad, the apex slender and 

 rccnrved ; tegniina ahont three times longer than broad, 

 apical cells four, preceded by tiiree subapical cells ; legs 

 elongate. 



Amitrochates yrahami, sp. n. 



Head, pronotnm, and scntcllum shining black, a small 

 greyi-<h-\vhitc spot at each basal angle oP the scutellnm, a 



Amitrucliutes r/rd/ianii, ])i.-^t. 



similar spot on each lateral margin of the prouotum, and 

 another spot near insertion of tegmina ; legs black, til)ice 

 and tarsi ochraceous, bases of the tibiae black ; abdomen 

 more or less greyish white ; tegmina pale hyaline, the basal 

 areii black, venation brownish ochraceous, a transverse 

 linear spot at posterior angle of inner tegminal margin, and 

 a marginal costal spot beyond middle pale brownish ; pro- 

 notnm thickly, somewhat coarsely punctate, posterior pro- 

 notal process with the upper and lower margins irregularly 

 coarsely serrate : oiher structural characters as in generic 

 diagnosis. 



Long., incl. tegm., 5 mm. 



Hab. Ashanti; Obnasi [Dr. IV. M. Graham). Gold Coast; 

 Aburi (/('. H. Patterson). 



Genus Tricentrus. 



Tricentrus, Stal, Hem. Afr. iv. p. 89 (18(50); (Efv. Vet.-Ak. Forli. 



1869, p. 283; /. c. Itt70, p. 728; Uist. Faun. Brit, India, iv. p. 53 



(1907). 

 Otaris, liuckt. Monogr. Membrac. p. 249 (1903). 

 Taloipa, Buckt. Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. ix. p. 334 (1905). 



Tricentrus auritus. 



Otaris auritus, Buckt. Monogr. Membrac. p. 249, pi. lix. fig. 1 a (1903) ; 

 Schmidt, Zool. Anz. xxxviii. p. 242 (191 J). 



I lab. Sumatra. 



