278 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



Hah. Brit. India ; Kangra Valley— 4500 ft. (G. C. Dudgeon). 



Allied to G. tnuicata, Dist. by the truncate posterior angles 

 to the pronotum, but these in G. dadgeoni are more produced 

 and outwardly concavely sinuate ; the scutellum is less sinuate 

 near base, and the colour is also of a very distinctive character. 



Fam. Henicocephalid^. 

 Henicocephalus pugnatorius, sp. n. 

 Ocliraceous ; hemelytra a little more opaque, incomplete, its apical 

 area fuscous, and only reaching to about half the length of abdomen ; 

 head with the auteocular area slightly shorter than the postocular, 

 transversely constricted behind eyes, transversely carinate between 

 antennal bases, antennre somewhat longly and finely pilose, second and 

 third joints longest, almost subequal, the second slightly longer ; 

 middle and posterior lobes of pronotum about equally wide, middle and 

 anterior lobes with a central longitudinal incision, base of posterior 

 lobe concave ; scutellum with a subobsolete central longitudinal cari- 

 nation on each side of which at base is a small foveation ; hemelytra 

 with prominent longitudinal veins ; rostrum clothed with fine long 

 hairs or setae, almost reaching eyes ; body long and slender ; anterior 

 and posterior femora somewhat strongly incrassate. Long. 4 milllm. 



Hab. Cape Colony ; Hex Eiver "Valley. 



Mr. Mally, who forwarded specimens of this species, con- 

 tributed also some observations on the pugnacious character of 

 the males (c/. ' Zoologist,' 1903, p. 466). Dr. Bergroth (Wien. 

 Ent. Zeit. xxii. p. 254), who has recently described a species from 

 Port Elizabeth, tells me, on a comparison with a specimen of 

 H. pugnatorius I sent him, that the two species are quite distinct. 



Fam. Nepid^. 

 Cercotmetus fiunosus, sp. n. 



Uniformly somewhat dark fuscous ; head with a pointed tubercle 

 between the eyes ; hemelytra not reaching the apex of the fifth abdo- 

 minal segment, the coriaceous portion with some amount of brownish 

 ochraceous pubescence ; abdominal appendages mutilated in type ; 

 abdomen beneath strongly keeled, the keel continued on sternum as 

 far as anterior coxae ; prosternum with two long deep furrows ; inter- 

 mediate and posterior tibia and tarsi inwardly moderately prominently 

 pilose ; pronotum as long as intermediate femora. 



By the last character this species is to be distinguished from 

 C. asiaticns, in which the intermediate femora are longer than the 

 pronotum; from C. pilipes., Dall., it is separated by the much less 

 longly pilose inner margins of the intermediate and posterior tibiae, 

 and the darker colour ; the central carination of the body beneath 

 only reaches the anterior margin of the metasternum, which also sepa- 

 rates it from (7. compositus, Montand. Length excl. abdom. append. 

 47 millim. 



Hah. Ceylon (Green —Brit. Mus.). 



