Mr. W. \j. Distant on Pyrrliocoiicl£e. 43 



and abdomen luti'ous ; subanterior area to j)rotiotum, sternal 

 segmental margins, coxa3, trochanters, and basal abdominal 

 segmental margins pale bright castaneous ; rostrum dark 

 castaneous and almost reaching apex of second abdoiuinal 

 segment. 



Anterior femora strongly spined beneath ; pronotum ob- 

 scurely, corium distinctly punctate; membrane with the 

 apical margins narrowly greyish. 



Long. 12-13 millim. 



Hob. East Central Africa : Ruwenzori [Scott Elliot, Brit. 

 ]\Ius.). 



Dysdercus Clarki, sp. n. 



Head, pronotum, and scutellum black ; anterior area and 

 lateral margins of pronotum red, its anterior margin narrowly- 

 fuscous ; corium dark obscure olivaceous, with about apical 

 third black ; membrane black, its apical margins narrowly 

 greyish ; sternum and abdomen beneath pale luteous, a large 

 transverse reddish-ochiaceous spot on each side of the sternal 

 segments ; fifth abdominal segment and base of sixth black, 

 both laterally reddish ochraceous ; legs very dark castaneous; 

 antennas fuscous, base of last joint luteous ; rostrum brownish, 

 its apical joint piceous. 



Pronotum with the lateral margins strongly concavely 

 sinuate ; anterior margin and posterior area of pronotum and 

 the corium thickly punctate, the corium most distinctly so; 

 anterior femora spi/ied beneath near apices. 



Long. 8^ millim. 



IIal>. Rio Province [Hamlet Clark Exped., Brit. Mas.). 



Dysdercus evanescens, sp. n. 



Very pale ocliraceous; head, anterior area and lateral 

 margins of pronotum, scutellum, lateral and apical margins 

 of corium, and legs reddish ochraceous ; antennas and a small 

 round spot on the disk of corium black ; body beneath pale 

 ochraceous; lateral margins of sternum, prosternuin with a 

 spot behind the area of each eye connected with a narrow 

 transverse line, anterior area of mesosternum, a large lateral 

 spot to metasternum, and anterior areas of abdominal segments 

 reddish ochraceous ; abdominal marginal incisures very 

 narrowly black; membrane pale brownish. Prosternutn 

 coarsely and roughly punctate, pronotum and corium thickly 

 punctate, the last most finely so. 



Louij. 17-2U millim. 



