90 Mr. W. L. Distant on African Pentatomidse. 



Genus Caura. 



Caura, StSl, llem. Afr. i. p. 168 (1864). 

 Type, C. pugillator, Fabr. 



Caura singeri, sp. n. 



Head black, the whole o£ the central lobe, lateral and 

 apical margins, and a spot in front and behind each eye 

 ochraceous ; antennae black, the basal joint ochraceous ; 

 ])ronotum, scutellum, and corium purplish brown, lateral 

 margins of pronotum and a spot at base of costal margin to 

 corium ochraceous ; body beneath and legs very pale ochra- 

 ceous ; rostrum (excluding basal joint), tibiae (more or less), 

 tarsi, two spots near apices of femora beneath, usually four 

 spots on each side of the sternal segments, five series of spots 

 to abdomen beneath, one central and tv/o lateral, the central 

 series arranged in groups of three, and the spiracles, black ; 

 body beneath with some scattered, irregular, sanguineous, 

 macular markings ; lateral areas of the head thickly coarsely 

 punctate ; antennae with the second and third and the fourth 

 and fifth joints almost subequal in length, the latter longest ; 

 pronotum, scutellum. and corium thickly finely punctate, 

 pronotum with the lateral angles unarmed, the lateral 

 margins distinctly moderately reflexed ; membrane bronzy 

 brown, the apex a little paler ; rostrum reaching the posterior 

 coxae. 



Long., S ) 13 mm. 



Hab. Abyssinia (C. Singer, Brit. Mus.). 



Allied to C. rufiventris, Germ. ; lateral margins of the 

 pronotum more reflexed and more broadly pale-coloured ; 

 apex of scutellum more broadly and less elongately narrowed; 

 different colour, &c. 



Caura durbanensis, sp. n. 



Body above ochraceous, very thickly but irregularly, 

 blackly punctate ; lateral margins of pronotum very narrowly 

 ochraceous, and with a broken and subobsolete pale central 

 longitudinal line ; scutellum with five small ochraceous spots 

 on basal margin ; corium with a small but distinct pale spot 

 on disk of subapical area; membrane bronzy brown, the 

 veins darker; connexivum black, with large ochraceous 

 segmental spots ; body beneath ochraceous, thickly but 

 irregularly blackly punctate, nearly wholly black at the 

 lateral posterior areas of the presternum, lateral margins of 

 the abdomen beneath with ochraceous segmental spots ; legs 



