88 Mr. W. L. Distant on 



bases and apices of intermediate and posterior tibiae, and the 

 tarsi, black ; rostrum about reaching the posterior coxse, with 

 its apex black; body oval, somewhat elongate ; head rounded 

 anteriorly, the margins moderately laminate and recurved, 

 the lateral lobes a little longer than the central lobe, their 

 apices contiguous; antennae black, with the apices of the 

 joints more or less ochraceous; second joint a little longer 

 than third, fifth longest ; head, pronotum, and scutellum dis- 

 tinctly, somewhat sparsely punctate, corium thickly punctate; 

 lateral margins of the pronotum nearly obliquely straight, 

 moderately laminately recurved ; connexivum exposed from 

 near middle of corium, orange-jellow, with black lines at the 

 incisures. 



Long. 12 mm.; exp. pronot. angl. 6 mm. 



Hab. Uganda ; between Jinja and Busia or Mbwago's, 

 E. Busoga {S. A. Neave, Brit. Mus.). 



This species in shape and geneial markings is closely allied 

 to M. distincta, Schout,, from which it structurally differs 

 by the lateral angles of the pronotum being subangularly 

 rounded and not acutely produced as in M. distincta, the 

 pronotal lateral margins are more obliquely straight and less 

 sinuate, the colour-markings are much darker, but the pattern 

 is indicated in Schouteden's species. 



Caura yalana, sp. n. 



Body above black with a slight olivaceous tint; narrow 

 lateral margins to iiead and a spot at apex of central lobe, 

 lateral margins of |)ronotum, a spot at base of lateral margins 

 to corium, connexivum, and body beneath, stramineous; apex 

 of scutellum obscurely ochraceous; three spots in transverse 

 series on each side of pro-, meso-, and metasterna, a central 

 longitudinal double series of transverse spots, spiracles and 

 transverse spots attached to them, a more rounded spot 

 between them (two on second segment) to abdomen, bright 

 bluish green; coxa3 and trochanters stramineous; legs, 

 rostrum, and antennae bluish black ; second joint of antennae 

 distinctly shorter than the third, remaining joints mutilated 

 ill type ; pronotum thickly punctate, with a slight central 

 longitudinal ridge, the lateral posterior angles rounded, non- 

 prominent ; scutellum transversely wrinkled and thickly 

 punctate; corium finely punctate; membrane opaque; 

 rostrum reaching the posterior coxai. 



Long. 13 mm. ; exp. pronot. angl. 8^ mm. 



Hah. Brit. E. Africa, Yala River, S. edge of Kakumga 

 Forest, 4800-5300 feet {S. A. Neave, Biit. Mus.). 



