Mr. W. L. Distant on Iloteroptera. 01 



X. — Iihj/nc/iotal Notes. — XX. IV. By W. L. DISTANT. 



These notes and descriptions refer to species which are all 

 contained or represented in the British Museum, 



II ETERO TTE K A. 



Fain. Coreidae. 

 AJictis loricata, sp. n. 



Above metallic ^reen ; antenna?, membrane, two Inore 

 oblong discal spots to pronotum, and the corium (cxcludiiii^ 

 lateral margins) dull black ; head above, body beneath, and 

 legs ochraceou.s ; uppersides of femora and tibiie (the last ex- 

 eludingapical thirds) ca.staneous ; odoriferous apertiire.s, three 

 s[)Ots on second, third, fourth, and fifth, and a curved fascia 

 on sixth abdominal segments black ; first and fourth joints of 

 antennse longest and snbequal in length, second longer than 

 third ; pronotum rugulose and coarsely punctate, its lateral 

 margins coarsely serrate ; scutellum transversely rugulose ; 

 corium sparingly deejily punctate; a short obtuse tubercle on 

 each side of second and third abtloniinal segments. 



<^ . .Posterior femoia incrassate, curved, with a series of 

 short tubercles on apical third of under surface ; posterior 

 tibiae slender, inwardly dilated into an acute spine beyond 

 middle. 



Long., (J 9 , 2G-28 mm. 



Ilah. Con^o Region : Angola (Brit. Mas.). 



This appears to be the species rigurcd in Thomson's Archiv. 

 Entomol. as M. metallicus, Sign., to which the species is 

 allied, but may always (apart from structural characters) 

 be differentiated by the two large discal spots, sometimes 

 fused, to the pronotum, and by tlie three spots to the second, 

 thiid, fourth, and fifth abdominal segments. The type of 

 ISignoret''s species being in the Vienna Museum, 1 wrote 

 to Dr. Ilancilirsch on the subject, who kinlly examined 

 the M. meta/licus, and wrote me as follows : — " There are 

 two type specimens in our museum, in both of which the 

 pronotum is unicolorous, and there are two rows of black 

 spots on segments 2-5." I have seen a very long series of 

 both species. 



Fam. Pyrrhocorid^. 

 Physvpelta nielanoptera, sp. n. 

 Black ; lateral and posterior margins of pronotum, corium. 



