Ml, W . L. Distant on A/iiiun IVntafoinidiC. ~0 



(hiitth'xomiH tli>n<j(itus, Dist. Ann. ^: Mag. Nat. IIi.-<t. (7) xiii. p. -'JIU 



(liK)4). 

 J.f;/ii<>tii.'< eloitgntug, Ber(rr. Mom. Soc. Ent. Bolj^. xv. p. loO n!'0-'). 

 (I'tidt/wcofius t.rjiiinsuii, Sellout. Kiliniantl. Mem Expecl. xii. p. 04 (1910). 



ILib. Abyssinia; Kiliniaiidjuro ; Transvaal. 

 Scliontetlcn lias oouipared a cotypc of my species with the 

 LaUrvh cxjiunsa, Sign,, in the Genoa Museum. 



Genus Atelocf.ra. 

 AUlocera, Lap. E.-.^. llt'ni. ]>. 03 (183l'). 

 Type, A. urmatn^ Tjap. 



Atelocera uttenuata, sp. n. 



I'ead hhnek, the lateral margins, a central longitudinal 

 line ;iiit( riorly obsolete, a curved line from near ocelli to 

 before eyes, and a somewhat oblique line on anterior area on 

 each side of the central lobe, ochraceous ; pronotura ochra- 

 ceous niotth'd with black and with black punctures, more 

 prominently black on the subanteiior and sublateral margins, 

 a central pale longitudinal line only distinct on anterior area, 

 the anterior and anterior lateral margins ochraceous ; scu- 

 tellum and corium ochraceous, strongly mottled and punctured 

 with black or jiiceous, membrane greyish fuliginous with the 

 veins darker ; body beneath and legs dark ochraceous or 

 ])ale castaneous; head beneath, sublateral margins of sternum, 

 coxal spots, apices of femora more or less, apices of tibiae, 

 the tarsi, and apex of rostrum black; counexivum above 

 and beneath alternately black and ochraceous ; antennae 

 black, second joint (excluding apical area) pale castaneous 

 brown, first joint not reaching apex of head, second con- 

 siderably hniger than third, which is a little longer than 

 fourth ; head about as long as proiiotuin, thickly coarsely 

 punctate between the longitudinal pale lines; pronotum with 

 the lateral margins strongly sinuate, anteriorly finely ereuu- 

 latc, the posterior angles somewhat broadly subangularly 

 produced; abdomen sulcate ; rostrum passing the posterior 

 coxae. 



Jjong. 11- If) mm. ; exj). pronot. angl. 7 mm. 



Hub. Abyssinia; Shoa (lint. Mus.). Uganda; Kampola 

 (Coll. Dist.). 



Allied to A. stictica, Westw., but a more narrow and 

 elongate species, the anterior femora much more shortly 

 spinetl, head distinctly shorter and comparatively broader. 



