G4 Mr. W. L. Distant on llcteroptera 



Laccotrephes calcar^ sp. n. 



Fuscous brown ; abdomen above purplish brown, the apical 

 segment brownish ochraceous ; wings pale lacteous hyaline, 

 the veins ochraceous ; anterior femora with a long curved 

 subbasal spine on their under surface, its apex ocliraceous ; 

 pronotum long, about as long as the intermediate femora, its 

 surface finely granulate or tuberculate, its central carinse 

 prominent, its basal margin strongly concavely sinuate 

 before scutellum, which is about as long as pronotum from 

 before the basal transverse constriction j abdominal ap- 

 pendages more or less mutilated. 



Long, body, excl. append., 49 mm. 



Hab. Nigeria: Abutshi River (Brit. Mus.). 



A si)ecies peculiar by the long (3 mm.) curved basal spine 

 to the anterior femora. 



Laccotrephes nyasce, sp. n. 



Very dark fuscous or piceous ; abdomen above black, with 

 a large pale ochraceous space occupying about half the area 

 of the second segment, nearly the whole of the third an J 

 fourth segments, and the central area of the fifth segment; 

 wings pale hyaline, with the veins dark fuscous; femora 

 with a more or less distinct greyish annulation a little 

 beyond middle, and tibite similarly marked a little beyond 

 base. Appendages much longer than body, not quite twice the 

 length ; pronotum sparingly finely granulate or tuberculate, 

 the central carinse strongly pronounced, before scutellum 

 strongly concavely excavated ; sternum finely granulate or 

 tuberculate. 



Long, body, excl, append., 40-42; length append. 68 mm. 



Hah. Nyasaland : Nyika Mountains, 6000-7000 feet {A. 

 Whyte, Brit. Mus.). 



This species may be primarily recognized by the peculiar 

 coloration of the upper surface of the abdomen and by the 

 very long abdominal appendages. 



Genus Ranatra. 



Banatra fuscoannulata, sp. n. 



Tawny brown ; legs ochraceous, intermediate and posterior 

 legs annulated with fuscous ; coriuin witli marginal series of 

 linear black Sjiots j abdomen above reddish ocliraceous, its 

 apex piceous ; metasternum bilobed ; apex of membrane not 

 passing the fifth abdominal segment ; anterior femora with a 



