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^Ir. \V. L. Distant on lleteroptora 



Laccotrephe.s caJcar^ sp. ii. 



Fuscous brown ; abdomen iibove purplish brown, the apical 

 seo;ment bro\vnish ouhraceous ; wings pale lacteous hyaline, 

 the veins ochraceous ; anterior femora with a long curved 

 snbbasal spine on their under surface, its apex ochraceous ; 

 jnonotum lono;, about as long as the intermediate femora, its 

 surface tinelv granulate or tuberculate, its central carina} 

 prominent, its basal margin strongly concavely siiiuat'3 

 before scutellum, which is about as long as ]M-onotum from 

 before the basal transverse constriction ; abdominal ap- 

 pendages more or less mutilated. 



Long, body, excl. append., 49 mm. 



Hah. Nigeria: Abutshi River (Brit. Mus.), 



A species peculiar by tiie long (8 mm.) curved basal spine 

 to the anterior femora. 



Laccotrephes nyasce, sp. n. 



Very dark fuscous or piceous ; abdomen above black, with 

 a large pale ochraceous space occupying about half the area 

 of the second segment, nearly the whole of the third anl 

 fourth segments, and the central area of the fifth segment ; 

 wings pale hyaline, with the veins dark fuscous; femora 

 with a more or less distinct greyish annulation a little 

 beyond middle, and tibia? similarly marked a little beyond 

 base. Appendages much longer tlian body, not quite twice tiie 

 length; pronotum sparingly finely granulate or tuberculate, 

 the central carinse strongly pronounced, before scutellum 

 strongly concavely excavated ; sternum finely granulate or 

 tuberculate. 



Long, body, excl. append., 40-42; length append. 68 mm. 



Hah. Nyasaland : Nyika M^niutains, 6000-7000 feet {A. 

 Whyle, Brit. Mu>.). 



This species may be ))rimarily recognized by the peculiar 

 coloration of the upper surface of the abdomen and by the 

 very long abdominal appendages. 



Genus Ranatra. 



Banatra fuscoannulata, sp. n. 



Tawnv brown ; legs ochraceous, intermediate and posterior 

 Ipgs annulated with fuscous ; corium witli mai'ginal series of 

 linear black spots; abdomen above reddish ochraceous, its 

 a])ex piceous ; metasternum bilobed j apex of membrane not 

 passing the fifth abdominal segment ; anterior femora with a 



