Mr. W. L. Distant on Homoptera. 311 



punctate, with a central longitudinal carinate line which 

 terminates near anterior margin in a slight foveatiou. 



Long., cxcl. tegm., 12 mm. ; exp. tegm. 32 mm. 



Hub. Cameroons (Esca/era, Brit. Mus.). 



Allied to P. grossus, Fabr., but with the vertex a little 

 more angulate anteriorly, while from all the varieties of the 

 Fabrician species it differs by the pale uuicolorous wings. 



Genus Poophilus. 

 PoopKilus, Stal, Hem. Air. iv. p. 72 (18GG). 



Type, P. actuosus, Stal. 



Poophilus adustus *. 

 Ptyelus adustus, Walk. List Horn. iii. p. 710 (1851). 



Hub. Congo, Sierra Leone. 



Poophilus obscurus. 



Ptyelus obscurus, Walk. List Horn. iii. p. 707 (1851). 

 Aphrophora obscura, Germ., MS. 



Hub. S. Africa. 



Genus Sepullia. 

 Sepullia, Stal, Hem. Afr. iv. p. 79 (18G6). 

 Type, S. murrayi, Sign. 



Sepullia murrayi. 



Clastoptera murrayi, Sign, in Thorns. Arch. Ent. ii. p. 333 (1858). 

 Sepullia murrayi, St&l, Hem. Afr. iv. p. 80 (1806). 



Vnr. — Head, prouotum, and tegmina stramineous, the 

 latter with the veins, apical margin, and confluent spots on 

 apical area black ; scutellum black ; body beneath and legs 

 as in the typical form. 



I possess both the black typical form and variety from 

 Calabar, where they were collected by the late Mr. 

 Rutherford. 



Genus Hemiapterus. 

 Hemiapterus, Jacobi, Zool. Jahrb. xix. p. 777 (1904). 



Type, H. decurtatus, Jacobi. 



* The P. congolensis, Sellout., which I have not seen, may be con- 

 specific with this species. 



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