428 Mr. W. L. Distant on 



Coenomorpha crassa, sp. n. 



Dull brownish ochraceous, thickly covered with piceous 

 punctures. Head long, with six longitudinal series of dark 

 punctures ; antennoe with the first, second, and third joints 

 dark castaneous, the third obscurely ochraceous at base, fourth 

 and fifth joints piceous, broadly ochraceous at base ; second 

 and fourth and third and fifth joints subequal in length. 

 Pronotum with the anterior lateral margins strongly and 

 coarsely dentate, the posterior lateral angles subprominent. 

 Membrane pale brownish, witli the veins darker. Con- 

 nexivum narrowly margined witii ochraceous, tlie segmental 

 angles brownish. Body beneath a little paler than above ; 

 a prominent black spot between the anterior and intermediate 

 coxse ; rostrum with its apical joint piceous and reaching 

 the fourth abdominal segment ; legs castaneous ; femora 

 ochraceous beneath ; tibiai with an ochraceous annulation. 

 Abdomen with the disk palest and profoundly sulcated to the 

 apex of the fifth segment^ its lateral margins ochraceous, 

 spotted with piceous at the segmental incisures. 



Long. 21-22 millim. ; exp. pronot. angl. 11-12 millim. 



Hah. East Africa; Nyasaland, Masuku Mts., 6000-7000 

 feet {A. Whyte). Three specimens (Brit. Mus.). 



Genus CuiPATULA. 

 Chipatula capitata, sp. n. 



Ochraceous, somewhat thickly and irregularly covered with 

 dark castaneous punctures. Head with six longitudinal series 

 of dark punctures, the lateral margins recurved, especially at 

 apices of the lateral lobes, the frontal margin sinuate and 

 with six obtuse teeth ; antenna? castaneous, with the bases of 

 the second, third, fourth, and fifth joints ochraceous, second 

 and fourth and third and fifth joints subequal in length. 

 Pronotum with the lateral margins finely and obtusely serrate 

 and ochraceous, the lateral angles subprominent and with a 

 central longitudinal levigate hne, which extends about half 

 across disk. Scutellum with a curved, elongate, levigate, 

 ochraceous spot in each basal angle, the extreme apex also 

 ochraceous. Connexivum ochraceous, with coarse brown 

 punctures, its extreme lateral margins ochraceous, darkly 

 maculate at incisures. Membrane pale brownish, with the 

 veins darker. Body beneath as above, but somewhat paler ; 

 a prominent black spot between the anterior and the inter- 

 mediate coxse (in a second specimen this dark colour is 



