4SG .Mr. AV. ]j. Distant on the 



be a Cameroons ropresentutive, this mouse is t1istinguis]ial)ln 

 by its larger skull and darker coloration, in wliicli latter it 

 nearly resembles tlie coiumon Cameroons L. cetulosa, in whose 

 comi)any it was ca|)tured, and tor wliose young it migiit 

 readily be mistaken. 



LIT. — Coritribiit'iotia to a further Knoivledge of the Rhynchottil 

 Family Lygteidne. By W. L, Distant. 



[Continued from p. 270.] 



Astacops tiyrinus, sp. ii. 



Head, pronotum, scutellum, and cerium pale ocliraceons ; 

 antennse black, basal joint ocliraceons ; apices of the stylatcd 

 eyes black ; boJy beneath pale ochrareous with prominent 

 transverse, somewhat broad, black fasciae, the most [iromi- 

 )ieut bci g at the anterior margins of the meso- jmd 

 metasterna, and ai the posterior margins of the ab lominal 

 segments, there is also a small black spot on each side of the 

 anterior marginal area of the prosternnm and a central blacic 

 longitudinal fascia on the apical abdominal segment; legs 

 black, anterior and intermediate femora (exclnding bases), 

 apical third of posterior femora, and extreme bases of tibite 

 ocluacenus ; tarsi mostly black; antennje uith the second 

 and fourth joiiits subetpial in length, each a little longer 

 than third; scuteilum tran-versely subc^nvex on basal area, 

 centrally thence to apex strongly carinate ; membrane black, 

 ajdcal margin pale and passing the abdominal apex. 



Long. 12 mm. 



Hub. Philippine Islands; Mindoro Island, Baco River 

 (/. J. Mounsey). 



Scopiates nigripes. 



Sropiiistes ni </ r i j)e s, J)] st. Ann. iS: 'Slag. Nat. Ilist. (7) vii. p. .533 (1901). 

 AMdcops }}ie/(t)tipini, Bergr. Phil. Joiuu. Sci. xiii. p. 67 (1918). 



hub. Queensland. 



Macropes simojii, sp. n. 



Head, pronotum, scutellum, body beneath, and legs black ; 

 anicnna; piceous, apical joint black; hemelytra pale creamy 

 yellow, clavus brown, vein outside clavus also brown, nearly 



