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IX. — JJescriptions of Elhiopian ItJnjuclwta {IJeteroptera). 

 By W. L. Distant. 



Pentatomidae. 



Plataapis aiigolensis, sp. n. 



Above ocliraceous, much suffused and punctured with bh\ck, 

 on the scutellum the punctures and suffusions obscurely 

 resemble three discal longitudinal fasciaj ; head somewhat 

 sparsely blackly punctate_, a central black spot on disk and 

 two basal longitudinal spots behind it, the anterior margin 

 centrally subtiuncate, obliquely rounded on each side to eyes; 

 pronotum more thickly punctate, the basal area more suffused 

 with black, on anterior area two black-margined transverse 

 spots; outside the basal angles of scutellum a distinct basal 

 orange-yellow spot ; scutellum less blackly marked and 

 punctured on the lateral areas and between the pseudo- 

 longitudinal t'asciai on disk; the sternum is subviolaceously 

 opaque ; head beneath and sternal margins ocliraceous with 

 scattered black punctures ; legs, rostrum, and abdomen be- 

 neath brighter and darker ocliraceous ; central fascia to 

 sternum and abdomen, narrow segmental abdominal margins, 

 and a transverse waved fascia to basal segment, black. 



Of the size and shape of P. horvathi, ilagl., but the an- 

 terior margin of the head not centrally sinuous, but evenly 

 continuous. 



Long. 10 ; lat. 9| mm. 



Hah. Angola (Brit. Mus.). 



Myrochea inermis^ sp. n. 



Pale ocliraceous ; head with the margins of the lateral 

 lobes (narrowly) and the margins of the central lobe (broadly) 

 black ; pronotum with four longitudinal black fascise composed 

 of confluent black punctures, two similar longitudinal black 

 fasciae to scutellum; corium, excluding lateral marginal area, 

 thickly, sometimes almost confluently blackly punctate ; 

 membrane greyish brown ; head beneath with a large black 

 spot on each side of base of rostrum, and some black spots at 

 base; pro- and mesonota centrally and sublaterally black; 

 abdomen beneath with a central segmental series of large 

 transverse black spots and with two longitudinal series of 

 black punctures on each lateral area ; legs ocliraceous; a 

 subapical annulation and apices to femora, the anterior tibi«, 



