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X.—Rhijnchotal Notes.— XKIY. By W. L. Distant. 



These notes and descriptions refer to species which are all 

 contained or represented in the British Museum. 



H ETEROPTEE A. 



Fam. Coreidse. 

 Mi'ctis loricata, sp. n. 



Above metallic green ; antennae, membrane, two large 

 oblong discal spots to pronotum, and the corium (excluding 

 lateral margins) dull black ; head above, body beneath, and 

 legs ochraceous ; uppersides of femora and tibiae (the last ex- 

 cluding apical thirds) castaneous ; odoriferous apertures, three 

 spots on second, third, fourth, and fifth, and a curved fascia 

 on sixth abdominal segments black ; first and fourth joints of 

 antennae longest and subequal in letigtli, second longer than 

 third ; pronotum rugulose and coarsely punctate, its lateral 

 margins coarsely serrate ; scutellum transversely rugulose ; 

 corium sparingly deeply punctate; a short obtuse tubercle on 

 each side of second and tliird abdominal segments. 



^ . Posterior femora incrassate, curved, with a series of 

 short tubercles on apical third of under surface; posterior 

 tibiae slender, inwardly dilated into an acute spine beyond 

 middle. 



Long., $ ? , 26-28 mm. 



Hah. Congo Region : Angola (Brit. Mas.). 



This appears to be the species figured in Thomson's Archiv. 

 Entomol. as M. metaliicusj Sign., to which the species is 

 allied, but may always (apart from structural characters) 

 be differentiated by the two large discal spots, sometimes 

 fused, to the pronotum, and by tlie three spots to the second, 

 third, fourth, and fifth abdominal segments. The type of 

 Signoret^'s species being in the Vienna Museum, 1 wrote 

 to Dr. Handlirsch on the subject, who kindly examined 

 the M. melalltcus, and wrote me as follows : — " There are 

 two type specimens in our museum, in both of which the 

 pronotum is unicolorous, and there are two rows of black 

 spots on segments 2-5." I have seen a very long series of 

 both species. 



Fam. Pyrrhocoridte. 

 Physopelta melanoptera, sp. n. 

 Black ; lateral and posterior margins of pronotum, corium, 



