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Genus Chollius. 

 CroUius, Dist. Ann. k Mug. Nat. Iliat. (7) vii. p. 21 (1901;, 

 Type, C. conspersus, Walk. 



CroUius sndanus, sp. n. 



IlcaJ, prouotum, scutcllura, and coriuiu dull ochraccous, 

 thickly darkly punctate; scutelluni with three small pale 

 spots on basal margin and a small black spot at basal angles; 

 membrane slaty grey, the veins piceous ; body beneath 

 black, lateral margins of sternum and abdomen, rostrum, and 

 legs ochraccous ; body elongate ; antennie ochraccous, four- 

 jcnnted, basal joint stoutest, slightly passing the apex of the 

 iiead, second joint sligiitly longer than either third or fourth, 

 which are subequal in length, fourth joint infuscate, its apex 

 paler ; head about as long as broad between the inner 

 margins of eyes, the lateral lobes snblaminate and reflexed, 

 longer than the central lobe and meeting beyond it, their 

 apices well separated, antenniferous tubercles outwardly and 

 prominently spined ; lateral margins of prouotum (very 

 narrowly), costal margin of corium (narrowly), and the con- 

 nexivum ochraccous; membrane not reaching the abdominal 

 apex. 



Long. 8 to 8^ mm. 



Hub. Sudan (^A. F. Broun, Brit. Mus.). 



Allied to C. cunsjiersus, Walk., but a more elongate and 

 much narrower species ; scutellum narrower, much more 

 sinuately compressed near middle. 



Genus Agabotus. 

 Agabotus, Dist. Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1884, p. 459. 

 Type, A. brunnescens, Dist. 



Agabotus ventralis, sp. n. 



Head ochraceous, darkly punctate, the margins of the 

 lateral lobes narrowly blackish ; eyes black, their l)asal and 

 posterior margins ochraceous; ocelli pale castaneous, situate 

 well behind eyes and near base of head, nearer eyes than to 

 each other; antennae with the first joint stout, ochraceous, 

 blackish at apex and about reaching apex of head, second 

 and third joints black, second very slightly shorter than 

 third (remaining joints mutilated in type) ; prouotum ochra- 

 ceous, darkly punctate, except on the lateral ampliated 

 margiiis, which are uniformly ochraceous, though sparingly 



