2G6 ill. W. L. Distant on the 



marginal ocliraocous macular markiiicj's ; rostrum ocliraceons, 

 basal anil apical joints piccous ; femora black, tlicir bases 

 and the \vholeof the tibise and tarsi more or less ocliraceons ; 

 anteniue piceous, basal half of apical joint ochraceons, 

 second joint longest, third and fourth almost subequal in 

 length ; anterior femora robust, shortly spinose beneath. 



Long. 10 mm. 



llab. Japanese Archipelago ; Tsushima Island (P. Hoist). 



Dieuches welatns, Dist. Anu. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (7) viii. 

 p. 505 (1901). 



Ilab. Mashonaland; Umfili River (G. A. K. Marshall). 

 Nyasaland ; Valley of N. Rukuru, Karonga District {S. A. 

 Neave). Uganda; Entebbe (C C. Gowdey). Abyssinia; 

 Gibe River [Ph. C. Zaphiro). 



The type was from Mashonaland. 



Dieuches parvipictus, sp. n. 



Head, pronotum, and scutellum black ; anterior half of 

 lateral margins and some small spots (usually two but some- 

 times four) on disk of pronotum, two spots near base and 

 extreme apex of scutellum ochraceous ; antennre ochraceous, 

 apex of third joint black, more or less mutilated in the 

 twelve specimens now before me ; corium ochraceous, 

 brownly punctate, extreme lateral margins pale and im- 

 punctate, a spot at base of elavus, a large spot near inner 

 posterior angle, a very small spot in a line with it on lateral 

 margin, and the apical margin black ; body beneath black : 

 rostrum and legs ochraceous, apex of rostrum and usually 

 apical areas of the femora — more or less — black ; antennaj 

 with the second and third joints almost subequal in length ; 

 scutellum with a more or less distinct, central, longitudinal 

 carinate line. 



Long. 7-8 mm. 



Hub. Katanga; Kambove and LuflFra River (/Sf. ^. iVeare). 



Allied to D. putruelis, Stal, but a smaller species with 

 both the pronotal lobes black. 



Dieuches consimilis, sp. n. 



Allied to the preceding species in general markings and 

 coloration, but a larger species with the basal joint and 

 apices of the remaining anteunal joints black ; posterior 

 pronotal lobe more strongly and coarsely punctate ; scutellum 



