98 j\Ir. W. L. Distant on African Pentatomidas. 



subeqTial in length ; pronotnm almost twice as broad at base as 

 lono^, lateral margins oblique, very obscurely sinuate, extreme 

 ed<2;e subacute aud slightly reflexcd, anterior angles shortly but 

 distinctly spiiicd, posterior angles rounded, not prominent ; 

 scutellura much longer than broad at base, the apical third 

 attenuated, a small curved linear callosity at each basal 

 angle ; coriura twice as long as its greatest breadth ; mem- 

 brane slightly passing abdominal apex, the veins mostly 

 furcate ; mesosterimm centrally carinate, the carination in a 

 globular depression ; base of the abdomen unarmed or very 

 slightly centrally tuberculously produced. 



Allied to the Oriental genus Cr'itheus, Stal, but with the 

 rostrum shorter, racmbranal veins furcate, &c. , 



Amatemhuna neavei, sp. n. 



Ochraceous, thickly irregularly darkly punctate; a linear 

 callosity at basal angles and the apex (broadly) of scutellum 

 aud a somewhat large levigate spot on apical third of 

 corium yellowish white; membrane more or less fuliginous; 

 connexivum ochraceous, transversely marked with black at 

 the incisures ; body beneath ochraceous ; abdomen ])eueath 

 with two broad longitudinal black fascise on disk, which meet 

 or almost meet near apex; meso- and metasterna also more 

 or less marked with black ; legs dark ochraceous ; antennae 

 "with the first, second, and third joints ochraceous or testa- 

 ceous, fourth and fifth joints moi'e or less piceous or black; 

 liead thickly finely blackly punctate ; pronotum more coarsely 

 and sparsely punctate, with scattered, transverse, linear, 

 callous, pale yellowish markings ; scutellum coarsely sparsely 

 blackly punctate, before apex shortly, distinctly, longitu- 

 dinally impressed, the apical pale area very finely and ob- 

 scurely punctate; sternum sparsely coarsely punctate, abdo- 

 men thickly and more finely punctate. 



Long., ^ 11, ? 12 mm.; exp. pronot. angl. 5|-6 mm. 



Hub. Congo Free State; W. of Kambove, 3500-4500 ft. 

 [Neave, Brit. Mus.). 



Genus Euryaspis. 

 Euryaspis, Sign. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. (2) ix. p. 342 (18-")1). 



Type, E. transver salts, Sign. 



Euryaspis congolensis, sp. n. 



Head ochraceous, the basal margin black, the lateral lobes 

 inwardly margined witii black punctures, and thus apparently 

 enclosing two pale ochraceous spots; pronotum with the 



