60 Mr. W. L. Distant on a 
interrupted externally by the interno-median fold and sub- 
median vein, which are brown: secondaries snow-white; the 
costal and outer borders much blacker than above, the radial 
and median veins only blackish as they approach the border: 
pectus and palpi ochreous; venter white, with a dusky lateral 
line, which changes to pale ochreous on the posterior seg- 
ments; sides ashy; anal tuft orange. 
Expanse of wings 40-43 millim. 
Three examples, 24th to 26th September, 1899. 
Abantis plerotica was sent to us by Mr. Marshall from 
Mashonaland as A. venosa, together with the typical form. 
I suspect it is the wet phase of that species. 
Kedestes protensa, sp. n. 
Allied to K. tucusa of Trimen, but considerably larger, the 
costal margin of the primaries and abdominal margin of the 
secondaries much longer: secondaries above without discal 
markings and sometimes without the hairy white or buffish 
spot at the end of the cell: on the under surface the colouring 
is richer, the costal and apical areas of the primaries, with 
the submarginal spots, being buff shading into orange; the 
secondaries buffish stone-colour alternated with orange some- 
what as in K. mohozutza; the black spots of the discal series 
on the secondaries do not form a regular W, as in K. tucusa, 
but run almost parallel to the submarginal series; there is 
also a tapering submedian dusky streak from the outer margin 
to the base. 
Expanse of wings 35 millim. 
22nd, 24th, and 26th September, 1899. 
XII.—On a few Undescribed Rhynchota. 
By W. L. Distant. 
Fam. Pentatomide. 
Subfam. ScurerrerivZ. 
Hyperoncus uniformis, sp. n. 
Above ochraceous; thickly, finely, and darkly punctate, 
sparingly covered with very minute black spots; sternum 
and legs ochraceous, coarsely darkly punctate; abdomen 
brownish ochraceous, with a broad, central, ill-defined fascia, 
the stigmatal spots and lineate macular lateral margins ochra- 
ceous: the abdomen is also coarsely punctate, much less so 
