in the British Museum and elsewhere. 195 



of some of these the condition is so imperfect as to make 

 their generic identification a matter of no little difficulty, 

 but they will be all found in the " summarized disposition " 

 here appended. 



Division Mir aria. 



Nymannus, gen. nov. 



Elongately subovate ; head as long as pronotum, sub- 

 conical, narrowed anteriorly, with a narrow central linear 

 sulcation ; eyes of moderate size, almost touching the 

 anterior margin of the pronotum ; antennae about as long 

 as the body, first joint strongly incrassated, narrowed at 

 base, about as long as head, second joint slender, about 

 twice as long as first and almost equal in length to re- 

 maining joints together ; rostrum almost reaching the 

 posterior coxse ; pronotum nearly twice as broad posteriorly 

 as anteriorly, very faintly transversely impressed on anterior 

 area, posterior margin truncate, oblique beyond the scutellar 

 angles, mesonotum exposed ; scutellum subtriangular ; hem- 

 elytra a little convexly ampliated, cuneus longer than broad, 

 membrane short ; posterior femora incrassated, posterior 

 tibiae finely setose; first joint of posterior tarsi as long as 

 second and third joints together. 



Nymannus typicus, sp. n. 



Pale reddish-testaceous, basal lateral areas of corium 

 stramineous, clavus somewhat piceous ; antennae with the 

 basal joint castaneous, second joint pale ochraceous, re- 

 maining joints fuscous ; femora castaneous ; tibiae pale ochra- 

 ceous ; tarsi, excluding base, fuscous ; membrane dark 

 fuscous ; body above finely shortly pilose ; narrow central 

 sulcation to head appearing as a fuscous line ; basal angles 

 to scutellum linearly foveate and fuscous. 



Long. 6 mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony : Grahamstown (Albany and Brit. 

 Muss.). 



Genus Megaclelum *. 



Megaccelum, Fieb. Wien. ent. Monats. Bd. ii. p. 305. n. 21 (1858). 

 Creontiades, Dist. Biol. Centr.-Amer., Rhynch. i. p. 237 (1883). 



* I have here substituted the generic term Megaccelum for Creontiades 

 (ante, p. 105). I had already sank as a synonym the proposed genus 



13* 



