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short and broad, their apices obtusely acute, very slightly 
upwardly directed, the posterior process tricarinate, mode- 
rately compressed, about reaching the tegminal apices, its 
apex subacute, a little concave centrally. 
Long., incl. post. pronot. process., 5 mm. ; exp. pronot. 
lat. process. 8 mm. 
Hab. Brit. E. Africa; Valley of Upper Nzoia River (8S. A. 
Neave). 
A small species, to be recognized by the short, broad, 
lateral pronotal processes and the distinct coloration. 
Oxyrhachis yerburyi, sp. 0. 
Body and legs more or less black ; tegmina hyaline, the 
base and venation blackish ; pronotum coarsely punctate, 
the lateral processes long, robust, distinctly carinate, 
obliquely upwardly directed and apically recurved, the apices 
obtusely acute, posterior process not reaching the tegminal 
apices, strongly tricariuate, beyond base compressed and 
ampliate and upwardly obliquely directed, beneath some- 
what obsoletely serrate. 
Long., incl. post. pronot. process., 64 mm.; exp. lat. 
pronot. process. 55 mm. 
Hab. Aden (Col. J. W. Yerbury). 
Allied to O. versicolor, Dist., also from Aden, but differing 
in the more robust and distinctly carimate lateral pronotal 
processes, the ampliated posterior pronotal process, different 
colour, &c. 
Oxyrhachis delalandet. 
Oxyrhachis delalandei, Fairm. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. (2) iv. p. 268 (1846) ; 
Fieb. Rey. Ent. (3) iv. p. 18 (1876); Oshan. Verz. Pal. Hemipt. 
Homopt. i. p. 40, n. 154 (1906). 
Hab, Sicily, Tunis, Syria, Egypt, Mariat (Dep. Agr. 
Egypt, Coll. Storey, Brit. Mus.). ! 
Fairmaire gave the habitat of his species as ‘‘ Cap de 
Bonne-Espérance ” ; but several other of his species also 
possess a mistaken locality, an error for which he was not 
responsible and which at that time was of more or less 
frequent occurrence. 
Xiphistes australasia, sp. n. 
Pronotum brownish ochraceous, more or less shortly 
palely pilose; face darker in hue, but also shortly palely 
pilose, ocelli a little nearer to each other than to eyes; 
