Rhyncholal Fdinilij LygreitliB, 201 



(inclufling eyes) narrower than anterior margin of pronotvina ; 

 first joint of rostrum extending beyond base of head ; 

 posterior area of pronotnm, scutellum and corium coarsely 

 punctate ; anterior femora strongly inerassate. 



Long, 8 mm. 



Hab. Australia ; Adelaide River (./. J. Walker). 



The type of the genus Bosbequius was from Tena^iserina 

 (Faun. Brit, hid., Rhynch. ii. p. 65, fig. 1). 



Thebamis nigrinus, sp. n. 



Dull ochraceous; head, anterior lobe of pronotura, and 

 anterior area of scutellum black ; head beneath and sternum 

 black ; legs ochraceous ; abdomen beneath dark slat^'-grey ; 

 antennae ochraceous, second joiut a little longest, third and 

 fourth almost subequid in length ; pronofcum thickly, some- 

 what coarsely punctate ; scutellum punctate, black before 

 the anterior branches of the cruciform carination, and dull 

 ochraceous behind them ; posterior margin of pronotnm 

 concave before scutellum ; corium (excluding lateral mar- 

 ginal areas) darkly punctate ; membrane slaty-grey, slightly 

 passing the abdominal apex. 



Long. 3^ mm. 



Hab. Burma ; Karennee. 



Genus Lachnophoroides. 



Lachnophoroides, Dist. 'Nova Caledonia,' Zool. i. p. 381 (1914). 



Type, L. ornatipennis, from New Caledonia (ibid. pi. xi. 

 fig. 9 ?). 



I am now able to amplify the description of this genus by 

 sexual characters, having only seen a single ? specimen 

 previously. 



$ . Pronotnm distinctly longer tliau breadth at base ; 

 anterior tibise strongly sinuately curved and armed 

 ■witli a short robust spine near middle of under 

 surface. 

 ? . Pronotnm about as long as broad at base ; anterior 

 tibise unarmed. 



Lachnophoroides crudelis. 



Pachymerus cnidelis, Hagl. Of v. Vet.-Akad. Forli. 1895, p. 462. 



Hab. W. Africa ; Gaboon (fide Hagland). Lagos ; Oudo 

 {A. B. S. Powell). N.E. Rhodesia; Upper Luangwa R, 

 {S. A. Neave). Uganda Protect, between Junja and 

 Busia, E. Busoga {S. A. Neave). Abyssinia (Lake Rudolph 

 Exped. — Ph. C. Zaphiro). 



