Mr. W. L. Distant on Iloraoptcra. 315 



Genus Triecfhora. 



Triecphora, Amy. & Serv. Hist. Hem. p. 5(31 (1843) ; Dist. Insect. 



Transvaal, pt. ix. p. 225 (1908). 

 Tomaspis, Stal (nee Amy. & Serv.), Hem. Afr. iv. p. 56 (18(36), 



Type, T. sanguinolenta, Scop.* 



Triecphora nyassce. 



Tomaspis nyassce, Dist. Trans. Ent. Soc. Loud. 1878, p. 177; Waterh. 



Aid Went. Ins. t. xxiv. (1880-2). 

 Tomaspis mirabiUs, Sellout. Ann. Soc. Ent, Belg. xlv. p. 118 (1901) 



Hab. E. Africa. 



Triecphora picturata, sp. n. 



Head (including face), scutellum, pro- and mesosterna, 

 and legs black ; posterior femora testaceous ; pronotum 

 stramineous, the anterior and anterior-lateral margins black ; 

 abdomen above and beneath pale testaceous, the anal 

 segment black ; nietasternum stramineous or pale testa- 

 ceous; tegmina black, nearly basal half (excluding broad 

 costal margin) and a large cliscal spot on apical area stra- 

 mineous, in some specimens the latter spot ochraceous ; 

 wings pale fuliginous ; vertex broadly foveately apically 

 im pressed ; pronotum very finely wrinkled, posterior tibiae 

 with two strong spines, one near base, the other near middle; 

 face centrally longitudinally carinate. 



Long., excl. tegm., 6^-7 mm.; exp. tegm. 19 mm. 



Hab. N.W. llhodesia ; Kambove, Katanga {Neave, Brit. 

 Mus.). 



Triecphora, daltoni, sp. n. 



Body and legs black ; an elongate spot at each lateral 

 angle of the scutellum, margins of the abdominal segments 

 (very prominent above and much more obscure beneath), and 

 coxal spots sanguineous ; tegmina black, a short basal sub- 

 costal longitudinal streak and the apical third testaceous ; 

 wings very pale fuliginous, subhyaline, piceous at base and 

 fuscous at apical margin ; vertex with a basal central longi- 

 tudinal ridge, on each side of which is a broad central longi- 

 tudinal foveation ; pronotum rugosely punctate ; face very 



* This species has usually been ascribed to Limueus. but Maurice 

 Royer has recently (Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1906, p, 297) shown that Linnreus 

 included three species under that name and that the species is derinif . Ly 

 fixed by Scopoli (Em. Cam. \\ 112, fig. u.JO, 1703). 



