288 Mr. ^V. L. Distant on 



Ilah. S. Africa; no precise locality (S. Afr. Mus. and 

 Coll. Dist.). 



Mr. Peringuey sent me three examples of this distinctly 

 marked species. Its exact locality is yet to be determined. 



Subfam. Asopix^. 



Dory cor is Butherfordi. 



Dorycoris Rutherfordi, Dist. Ent. Montli. Mag. (2) iii. p. 187 (1892). 



In ' Khynchota iEthiopica/ t. i. p. 135 (1905), my friend 

 M. Schouteden has placed this species as a synonym of the 

 Pentatoma mini'ata, Westw., which he figures and enumerates 

 as a var. of Dorycoris pavoninus, Westw. ^I. Schouteden 

 writes : — " Z^. Ilutlierfordi est forma nitidissima, niargiuibu.s 

 pronoti vix constrictis^ a D. miuiato tanien, ut videtur, haud 

 distinguenda.^' So far from this being the case, the species I 

 described as D. Rutherfordi differs from Schouteden's figure 

 of D. miniatus (lettered as J), fuscosiis, Germ.) in havdng 

 the head wholly metallic green, basal half of scutellum 

 metallic blue, and a large transverse spot of the same colour 

 on corium on each side of apex of scutellum, the spot ex- 

 tending for little more than half across the corium. It may 

 be correct to regard D. Rutherfordi as a colour-variety of 

 D. pavoninuSj for M. Schouteden has had a large amount of 

 material through his hand.s, but it is incorrect to refer it to 

 the form he has figured. 



Subfam. Tessabatominje. 

 Kahlamba, gen. nov. 



liody subovate, flattened above, beneath slightly convex ; 

 head elongateiy subtriangular, about as long as width at 

 base including eyes, lateral lobes much longer than central 

 lobe and meeting beyond it ; antenniferous tubercles prominent 

 and placed just in front of the eyes ; ocelli placed nearer to 

 eyes than to each other and close to base of head; rostrum 

 just reaching the intermediate coxfe, second joint long but 

 shorter than the remaining joints together; antenn;i3 ot tive 

 joints, first joint shortest, not reaching more than halfway 

 between basal tubercle and apex of head, second and third 

 joints subequal, shorter than fourth or fifth, the latter longest; 

 pronotum broader at base than at apex, frontal margin 

 straightly truncate except behind eyes, where it is a little 

 convexly upcurved, lateral margins obliquely straight, trun- 

 cate before scutellum ; mesosternum distinctly centrally 



