42 Mr. W. L. Distant’s Rhynchotal Notes. 
apical half roundly deflected, its apex almost reaching the 
tegminal apices, the dark areas of the tegmina punctate. 
Long., incl. tegm., 5 mm.; exp. lat. pronot. process. 
3 mm. 
Hab. South Australia; Largs Bay (Tepper, Buckt. Coll.). 
Queensland ; Gayndah, Peak Downs. 
This species was contained in the Buckton Collection 
named as above, but I can find no trace of a published 
description. I therefore conserve the name and describe 
the species. 
Otinotoides spicatus, sp. 0. 
Head and pronotum fuscous brown, obscurely, shortly, 
palely pilose ; body beneath and legs fuscous brown ; lateral 
areas of the sternum and basal angles of the scutellum palely 
ochraceously tomentose; tegmina more or less fuscous 
brown, the central portion of claval area with somewhat 
obscure brassy reflections ; pronotum punctate and shortly 
obscurely pilose, strongly centrally carimate, the lateral 
processes broad and somewhat flattened on basal areas, 
subacute at apices, outwardly and a little upwardly directed, 
their apices distinctly recurved, posterior process some- 
what slender, its apical half roundly deflected, the apex 
acute and passing the posterior angle of the inner tegminal 
margin, but not reaching the tegminal apices ; basal, costal, 
and subcostal areas of the tegmina puuctate. 
Long., incl. tegm., 6 mm.; exp. lat. pronot. process. 
4 mm. 
Hab. Queensland (F. P. Dodd). 
Tshaka obortus, sp. nu. 
Head, pronotum, and scutellum black, obscurely shortly 
pilose ; body beneath and femora black, tibia more casta- 
neous, tarsi ochraceous ; tegmina usually very pale bronzy 
brown, a blackish spot at posterior angle of inner tegminal 
margin and the base black ; pronotum finely punctate, the 
lateral processes long, outwardly directed, moderately curved, 
the apices subacute, centrally longitudinally carinate, the 
posterior process moderately slender, tricarinate, sinuately 
directed downwardly, its apex just passing the posterior 
angle of inner tegminal margin. 
Long., incl. tegm., 45-5 mm. ; exp. lat. pronot. process. 
3-34 mm. 
Hab. Transvaal; Pretoria (forwarded by Mr. Claude 
Fuller to the Imperial Bureau of Entomology). 
