430 >rr. W. L. Distant on new and 



having a few large punctures on its edge near tlie base ; the 

 prostcrnuni — keel smooth and bistriate, stria? joining rectan- 

 gularly at the base, thence gradually widening out to the 

 anterior suture and there terminating ; the mesosternum 

 obtusely produced in front, marginal stria complete, and with 

 the metasternum and first abdominal segment sculptured with 

 large shallow punctures not closely set. 



Hab. Cape Town, January 1891 {R. M. Lightfoot). 



LXIX. — On nev: and liitle-knomi Tessaratominae of the Order 

 Rhjnchota. By W. L. Distant. 



Lyramorpha picta^ sp. n. 



Head, pronotum, scutellum, body beneath, and legs pale 

 olivaceous ; the posterior area of the pronotum and the apical 

 third of the scutellum dark olivaceous. Corium purplish 

 brown, with a large pitcliy-black spot a little before apex, 

 extreme costal margin pale olivaceous or ochraceous ; mem- 

 brane cupreous. Antennje brownish ochraceous ; apex of the 

 first joint, ui)per surface of the second, apex of tlie third, and 

 the whole of the fourth and fifth joints (excluding their bases) 

 fuscous ; the fourth and fifth joints subequal in length and 

 longer than the second joint. Eyes, coxal spots, apex of 

 rostrum, and the a|jices of the apical abdominal segments 

 fuscous. The body above is very obscurely and finely punc- 

 tate, excepting on the apical area of the scutellum, where 

 the punctures are larger and more distinct ; the pronotum and 

 scutellum are finely subrugulose. 



Long. 21 millim. 



Hah. Malayan Archipelago ; Batchiau. 



The dark hue and markings of this species will at once 

 distinguish it from all the other species of the genus excepting 

 the L. ramifera, Walk., described from New Guinea ; but 

 the spotted corium of L. picta will prevent any confusion. 



Emholosterna tawus. 



Tesseratoma taunts, Hope, Cat. Hem. i. p. 27 (1837). 



In some specimens collected by Mr. Whitehead on the 

 Kina Balu mountain in Borneo the pronotal angles arc con- 

 siderably more developed than in the Malaccan examples 

 of my own collection, which may be considered the typical 



