Mr. W. L. Distant on Tlomoptcra. 315 



Genus Triecphora. 



Triecphora, Amy. & Serv. Hist. Hem. p. 5G1 (1843) ; Dist. Insect. 



Transvaal, pt.'ix. p. 225 (1908). 

 Tomaspis, Still (nee Amy. & Serv.), Hem. Afr. iv. p. 56 (18(j6). 



Type, T. sangidnolenta, Scop.* 



Triecphora nyassce. 



Tomaspis nyassce^ Dist. Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1878, p. 177 ; Waterh. 



Aid Ident. Ins. t. xxiv. (1880-2). 

 Tomaspis miradiUs, Schout. Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. xlv, p. 118 (1901). 



Hab. E. Africa. 



Triecphora picturata, sp. n. 



Head (including face), scutellum, pro- and mesosterna, 

 and legs black ; posterior femora testaceous ; pronotnni 

 stramineous, the anterior and anterior-lateral margins black ; 

 abdomen above and beneath pale testaceous, the anal 

 segment black ; metasternum stramineous or pale testa- 

 ceous; tegmiua black, nearly basal half (excluding broad 

 costal margin) and a large discal spot on apical area stra- 

 mineous, in some specimens the latter spot ochraceons j 

 wings pale fuliginous ; vertex broadly foveately apically 

 impressed ; pronotum very finely wrinkled, posterior tibiee 

 with two strong spines, one near base, the other near middle; 

 face centrally longitudinally carinate. 



Long., excl. tegm., 6i-7 mm.; exp. tegm. 19 ram. 



Hab. N.W. Rhodesia ; Kambove, Katanga [Neave, Brit. 

 Mus.). 



Triecphora daltoni, sp. n. 



Body and legs black ; an elongate spot at each lateral 

 angle of the scutellum, margins of the abdominal segments 

 (very prominent above and much more obscure beneath), and 

 coxal spots sanguineous ; tegmina black, a short basal sub- 

 costal longitudinal streak and the apical third testaceous ; 

 wings very pale fuliginous, subhyaline, piceous at base and 

 fuscous at apical margin ; vertex with a basal central longi- 

 tudinal ridge, on each side of which is a broad central longi- 

 tudinal foveation ; pronotum rugosely punctate ; face very 



* This species has nsuaUy been ascribed to Linuteus, but Maurice 

 Roycr has recently (Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1906, p. 2i}7) shown that Linnaius 

 incUided three species under that name and that the species is delinitely 

 lixed by Scopoli (Ent. Cam. p. 112, tig. 330, 1703). 



