TS Mr. W. L. Distant on African Peiitatomidae. 



Hub. N. Rhodesia ; Kafue R. (/. Drury, S. Afr. Mus.). 



This is the first species of Odontotarsiis described from 

 the Ethiopian He?;ion. It is represented in Norih Africa, 

 but is there Palaearctic in distribution. 



Genus Kayesia. 

 Katiesia, Schout. Rbynch. ^thicp. 1, i. p. 114 (1903). 



Type, K.jHirva, Schout. 



Kayesia nigrolineata, sp. n. 



Pale brownish ochraceous, thickly darkly punctate ; mar- 

 gins of the pronotal cicatrices and a transverse central spot 

 just behind them, irregular, transverj^e, and somewhat reticu- 

 late lines to the scutellum, and margins to the central lobe of 

 liead, black ; scutellum with five small basal spots, a short 

 lateral marginal line near base and a somewhat faint central 

 longitudinal line not extending beyond middle, pale ochra- 

 ceous ; head beneath and sternum blackish, abdomen beneath 

 castaneous (imperfectly seen on carded type) ; coxae, legs, 

 and rostrum pale ochraceous ; femora biannulated with 

 piceous on their anterior areas, bases and apices of tibiae 

 more or less piceous; rostrum with its apex black and 

 reaching the posterior coxse ; sternum sulcated and thickly 

 coarsely punctate; head with the lateral margins sinuate, the 

 lateral lobes slightly longer than the central lobe, thickly 

 coarsely punctate, eyes prominent ; antennae mutilated in 

 typical specimens, first joint not reaching apex of head, 

 ochraceous; pronotum with the anterior lateral angles acute, 

 prominent, and pale ochraceous, lateral margins strongly 

 sinuate, posterior lateral angles obtusely subprominent. 



Long. 5 mm. 



Hah. Natal : Durban {Bell-Marley). 



Genus Legnotus. 



Legnotus, Schiodte, in Kroyer, Naturh. Tidsskr. (2) ii. p. 464 (1849). 

 Gnathoconus, Fieb. 

 Lalervis, Sign. 



Type, L. melaleucus , Thunb. 



Legnotus expansus. 



Adoinerus e.xpansus, Sign. Ann. Mus. Civ. Stor. Nat. Genov. 1881, 



p. 6o6. 

 Lalervis expansa, Sign. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1884, p. 49 (Cjdn. pi. xxv. 



tig. 216;. 



