324 Mr. W. L. Distant's Rhi/nchotal Xotes. 



Xiphistes attenuata, sp. ii. 



Uiiifonnly pale hiowinsli-ocliraceous ; body elongate, poste- 

 riorly attenuate ; pronotuni coarsely punctate, centrally j)er- 

 currently carinate, the anterior anoles longly, almost lioii- 

 zontally produced, slender, very slightly apically dei)ressed, 

 all the edges carinate, the posterior process slender, its apex 

 depressed and almost reaching apices of tegmiua, which 

 are semihyaline, the venation pale brownish-ochraceous ; in 

 some lights the abdomen beneath is reflected, thus making 

 the basal two-thirds of the tegmina to appear as of a more 

 testaceous hue. 



Long., incl. ant. pronot. ])roc., 7^ mm. 



Hah. Mashonaland ; Lesapi R. [(r. A. K. Marshall). 



A species to be distinguished by its attenuated form and 

 the long and slender pronotal lateral angles, which are sub- 

 equal in length to that of the pronotuni behind them. 



Genus GONGRONEURA. 



Pedalion, Buckt. Mon. Membrac. p. 251 (1903), iiom. prreocc. 

 Gonqroneuru, Jacobi, iu Sjostedt Kilimandj. Exped. xii., Horn. p. 119 

 (1910), n. iiom, 



Gongroiieura triste. 

 Pedalion triste, Buckt. Mou. Membrac. p, 2."j2, pi. Ivii. fig". 5 (1903). 

 Hub. Cameroons. 



Gonyrontura ornata. 

 Pedaliun ornatuvi, Buckt. Mon. Membrac. p. 252, pi. Ivii. fig-. 6 (1903). 

 Jlab, Cameroons. 



Genus Pyrgauchenia. 



Pyrgauchenia, Bredd., Ilalle Abli. naturf. Ges. xxiv. p. 126 (19UG) ; 



Schmidt, Stett. Ent. Zeit. ixvii. p. 370 (1006). 

 PyrrjophylUum, Bredd. Soc. Ent. xvii. p. 91 (1902). 

 Pyryolyriuvi, Bredd. loc. cit. p. 92 (1902;. 



Type, P. sarast'norvm, Bredd, 



It is, perhaps, better to provisionally accept Schmidt's 

 compression of Breddin's genera as above, for the lust-named 

 entomologist queried several of his own generic fixations 

 {supra). More material may possibly cause a different con- 

 clusion. On the otlier hand, I do not agree with Schmidt 

 that Stal'.s genus Pyrgonota=^ IJypsauchenia, Germ, 



