238 Annals of the South African Museum. 



Sub-Family TINGIDIN.^. 



Cantacadee tenuipes (PI. XV., fig. 2). 

 Cantacader tenuipes, Stal, Hem. Afr. iii. p. 26 (1865} ; En. Hem. 

 iii. p. 116 (1873). 



Hah. Sierra Leone (Stockholm Mus.). 



Cantacader afzelii (PL XV., fig. 3). 



Cantacader Afzelii, Stal, En. Hem. iii. p. 116 (1873). 

 Hah. Sierra Leone (Stockholm Mus.). 



Cantacader attenuatus, sp. n. 



Pale brownish ochraceous ; apical joint of the antennae and apices 

 of the tarsi fuscous ; eyes, and a small lateral marginal spot at 

 about middle of hemelytra, black ; head very obsoletely punctate ; 

 pronotum coarsely punctate, strongly tricarinate, the lateral margins 

 carinately elevated, the arcuate transverse carina also equally well 

 developed ; hemelytra thickly reticulate, discoidal area about as 

 wide as the subcostal area, well defined by marginal carination. 



Long. 4 mm. ; max. lat. abdom. 2 mm. 



Hah. Cape Colony (Coll. Dist.). 



Phatnoma iETHiops, sp. n. (PI. XV., fig. 12). 



Pale brownish ochraceous ; head, central disk of pronotum and 

 some small lateral marginal spots, a spot at base of scutellum, a very 

 irregular transverse fascia to hemelytra crossing the discoidal area 

 before centre, and some minute subapical spots to same, some 

 transverse spots to costal area, and small spots to sutural area, dark 

 fuscous ; femora fuscous above ; antennae mutilated in type. Pro- 

 notum moderately ampliated and reflexed, rounded posteriorly, the 

 anterior angles minutely spinous, the disk punctate and tricarinate ; 

 hemelytra broad, ovate, their lateral margins regularly convex, 

 discoidal area much wider than subcostal, separated by a sharply 

 raised carina. 



Long. 3 mm. ; max. lat., about 1^ mm. 



Hah. Cape Colony (S. Afr. Mus. and Coll. List.). 



Phatnoma testacea, sp. n (PI. XV., fig 13). 

 Very pale ochraceous ; head, different carinse, and the femora 

 brownish ochraceous ; pronotum with the lateral margins less 

 dilated and much more oblique than in P. cethiops, the disk punctate 



