Mr. W. L. Distant's Rhynchotal Notes. 323 



the lateral processes distinctly directed upwardly, their apices 

 a little recurved and subacute, posterior process apically 

 recurved and a little passing the tegminal apex; basal angle 

 o£ tegniina coarsely punctate, a black spot near inner apical 

 angle. 



Long. 6|-7 mm.; breadth lat. pronot. process 3-3i mm. 



Hub. Natal; Durban {BeU-MarleT/). Khodesia ; Salisbury 

 ( Gui/ Marshall) . Nyasaland ; Mian je [8. A. Neave). Dowa 

 District {l)i: Lamhorn), 



Named after Mr. Neave's chief native collector. 



Xiphistes inermis. 



Xiphistes inermis, Jacobi, in Sjostedt Kilimandj. Exped. xii., Horn, 

 p. 119, t. ii. tig. 7 (1910). 



Jacobi described his species from a single ^ specimen 

 which measured " long. c. tegm. 5,5 mm." The British 

 Museum now possesses a single female specimen, collected by 

 II. S. Stannus at Zomba, Nyasaland, which measures 8^ mm. 



XijMstes tanganensis. 



Oxyrhachis tanganensis, Buckt. Mouogr. Membracid. p. 225, pi xlix. 

 fig. 7 (1903) ; Melich. Wien. Eat. Zeit. xxiv. p. 294 (1905). 



llah. Tanga, E. Africa. 



Xiphistes exigua. 



Otinotus exigua, Buckt. Monogr. Membracid. p. 232. pi. lii. fig. 5 (1903). 



Hab. Natal. 



Xiphistes crassicornis, sp. n. 



Fuscous brown, thickly, finely, greyishly pilose ; margins 

 of the abdominal segments paler and more ochraceous ; 

 tegniina subhy aline, the venation fuscous-^brown, a small 

 oblique fuscous-brown spot near posterior angle of the inner 

 tegminal margin ; pronotal angles very robust and prominent, 

 obliquely directed upwardly, their apices truncate, all their 

 margins ridged, outwardly a little sinuately narrowed near 

 base, pronotum centrally percurrently ridged, posterior process 

 moderately slender, rugulose, beneath centrally distinctly 

 serrate, its apex subacute, recurved, passing the posterior 

 angle of the inner tegminal margin; tibiai distinctly dilated. 



Long., inch ant. pronot. proc, 82 mm. 



Bab. Mashonaland ; Lesapi K. {G. A, K. Marshall). 



A species to be easily recognized by the very robustly 

 produced anterior pronotal angles. 



