Rhyn-chotal Family Lygfcidse. 175 



Luaiigwa R. [S. A. Neave). East Africa [German] Rd. to 

 Kilossa, Usagara Di.st. [S. A. Neave). 



Graptostethus carpenteri., sp. n. 



Head and antennae black; pronotum testaceous with a 

 large basal black spot at each posterior angle; scutellura 

 black; cerium greyish ocliraceous, an elongate black spot 

 on apical half of clavus and a central rounded black spot 

 abutting on middle of costal margin ; membrane black with 

 a transverse spot attenuated interiorly and a somewhat large 

 apical spot greyish white ;. connexivum ocliraceous with 

 black spots ; body beneath pale purplish red, coxal areas 

 pakr and more greyish in hue ; head beneath^ rostrum, legs, 

 two sternal spots on each lateral margin, small lateral 

 abdominal segmental spots, and the apical abdominal seg- 

 ment black ; antennae with the second, third, and fourth 

 joints almost subequal in length; scutellum longitudinally 

 carinate on apical half ; membrane passing abdominal 

 apex. 



Long. 4^-5 mm. 



Hub. East Africa [German], Lulanguru [G. D. H. 

 Carpenter) . 



Allied to G.picius, Dist. ■ 



Graptostethus flammatus, sp. n. 



Testaceous red ; apex of head and a small spot at inner 

 margin of each eye, pronotum with the anterior marginal 

 area and a large spot on each side of disk, scutellum (ex- 

 cluding apical central carination), corium with the clavus, 

 internal area and a sublateral marginal spot beyond middle, 

 membrane, body beneath, rostrum, antennse, and legs black ; 

 lateral margins of sternum and abdomen and abdominal 

 disk more or less testaceous ; sternal and coxal margins 

 greyish white ; antennae with the second joint about three 

 times as long as the first ; head and pronotum more or less 

 obscurely punctate ; basal angles of pronotum moderately 

 rounded, the lateral margins moderately thickened and 

 ^lightly recurved ; scutellum prominently centrally carinate. 



Long. 12 mm. 



Hab. Uganda; Kampala (C. C. Gowdey and S. A. Neave). 



A species somewhat superficially resembling above the 

 well-known palsearctic Lygaus familiaris, Fabr. 



Graptostethus swynnertoni. 



LygcBus stcynnertuni, Dist. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8) xv. p. 504 

 (1915). 



The typical specimen described did not afford me a good 



