Transvaal, Mashonaland, and British Nyasaland. 301 



levigate line, and with three — sometimes subobsolete — oblique 

 fascia? on each side ; two transverse marks on anterior area 

 and the lateral margins paler ochraceous. Scutelliiin witli a 

 central double lineate fascia, a short oblique stripe on each 

 side of base, and the extreme basal angles piceous ; near 

 basal angles is* also a small pale ochraceoas levigate sp^t. 

 Cerium more or less piceous at its inner angle. Membrane 

 greyish brown. Connexivum ochraceous, spotted with 

 piceous. Body beneath, rostrnm, and legs ochraceous; apex 

 of rostrum, lateral margins of sternum, a few sternal spots, 

 and a central fascia to abdomen piceous. 



Long. 6 millim. 



Hah. Transvaal, Pretoria [Distant) ; Zoutpansberg {Kcess- 

 ner) . 



This species is of a variable nature; in one specimen the 

 transverse marks on the anterior area of the pronotum are 

 piceous, not ochraceous. The markings to the scutelkim 

 appear to be always constant. 



Allied to ^. natalicola, Stal. 



Durmia horizoniaUs, sp. n. 



Head ochraceous, thickly and darkly punctate ; antenna? 

 reddish ochraceous. Pronotum ochraceous ; basal area 

 purplish, coarsely punctate ; lateral margins moderately crenu- 

 late ; lateral angles black, robustly spinous, strongly and 

 straightly produced outward. Scutellum pale ochraceous 

 and levigate, a cluster of piceous punctures on basal area and 

 at each lateral margin, the apex concolorously punctate. 

 Corium purplish, finely punctate, base of lateral margin 

 ochraceous. Membrane greyish. Connexivum ochraceous. 

 Body beneath ochraceous ; legs reddish ochraceous. A few 

 scattered black spots on sternum and abdomen, the spiracles 

 and a broken lateral fascia to abdomen also black. Rostrum 

 reaching the posterior coxa?, its apex black. 



Long. 7-9 millim. 



Hab. Transvaal, Pretoria [Distant). 



Subfam. AsoFiN^. 



Dotyeoris pavoninus, Westw. Pretoria District {Pret. Mus.). 

 Macrorhaphis leprosa, Germ. Pretoria ( W. L. D.), Lydenburg District 



{Pret. Mus.). 



spurcata, Walk. Lj-deuburg District {Pret. Mus.). 



Afrius jiyurcdus, Germ. Pretoria ( W. L. D.), Barberton [Dr. P. Ren- 



dall), Waterberg ( Wilde), Ljdeuburg District {Pret. Mus.). 

 Glypsus mcestus, Germ. Pretoria ( W, L. D.), Johanuesbm-g {Hoss). 

 ' cotispicims, Westw. Pretoria ( iJ'. L. D.). 



