Mr. AV. L. Disfant on PjirhocoricJa}. 39 



Antennae witli a few scattered hairs, to be fount! princi- 

 pally on the basal joint and at the apices of the second and 

 third joints; first, second, and fourth joints subequal in 

 length, third shortest; head and transverse anterior area to 

 pronotum very finely and obscurely punctate, remaining 

 area of pronotum (excluding the lateral margins) and corium 

 very thickly and finely punctate ; sternum (excluding coxal 

 areas) distinctly punctate. 



Long. 14-20 rnillim. 



IJab. British East Africa {C. S. Detton, Brit. Mas.). 



Odontopus confususj sp. n. 



Ochraceous ; head, rostrum, and legs, sometimes the under 

 surface of the body, more or less pale sanguineous ; antennai 

 black, first joint, and sometimes the base of the second, 

 sanguineous; two transverse black lines on anterior area of 

 pronotum, between which the colour is more or less san- 

 guineous ; corium with a spot near inner angle and another 

 spot near apex black; discal area of prosteruum and anterior 

 areas of meso- and metasterna black or dull reddish; anterior 

 abdominal segmental margins black or dull reddish. 



Antennai with the second joint a little longer than the 

 fourth^ third shortest ; corium very finely but distinctly 

 punctate. 



Long. 14-17 niillim. 



tiab. Lake Tanganyika (.1. (7ars&?i, Brit. Mas.) ; Ziinziliar 

 (Coll. Dist.). 



By the colour of the antennai this species is allied to 

 0. notabilis, Dist., and 0. inodestuSj Dist. 



Genus DiNDYMUS. 



Dindymus cr ad el is. 



Diiidymns crudelis, StSl, Berl. ent. Zeitschr. vii. p. 397. 3 (1863). 

 Dindymus reduvoides, Walk. Cat. Het. vi. p. 9. n. 27 (1873). 



Dindymus pyrochrous. 



Di/sdercm pi/roc/iruus, Ruisd. V'oy. .\strol., Eat. ii. p. 642 (1835), tig. 



inexact. 

 Dindymus variiis, Walk. Cat. Het. vi. p. 9. n. 29 (1873). 



Dindymus intermedius, Walk. Cat. Het. vi. p. 9. n. 28 (1873). 



This species is founded on a single immature form, of 

 which at present nothing can be determined. 



