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and tricarinate : hemelytra with the discoidal area narrower and 

 the costal area broader than in that species, discoidal area crossed by- 

 two very distinct transverse carina. 



Long. 2|— 3 mm. ; max. lat. 1-|— If mm. 



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



Phatnoma humeealis, sp. n. (PL XV., fig. 14.). 



Ochraceous with a strong pm-plish tinge ; head and central disk 

 of pronotum fuscous ; costal and subcostal membranes, subhyaline, 

 with fuscous cellular markings ; pronotum with the lateral areas and 

 angles pale ochraceous, the last strongly and angularly produced, 

 their apices terminating in three acute spines, disk punctate and 

 tricarinate ; hemelytra broadly rounded, the discoidal area being 

 much broader than the subcostal, and irregularly transversely and 

 longitudinally carinate. 



Long. 3-J- mm. ; max. lat. 2^ mm. 



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



Phatnoma obesa, sp. n. (PI. XV., fig. 16). 



Pale brownish- ochraceous, lateral discal areas of pronotum, and 

 subcostal areas of hemelytra pale hyaline minutely speckled with 

 pale fuscous ; a distinct transverse black fascia on anterior area 

 of pronotum, the lateral margins of which are very strongly re- 

 curved upward, convexly rounded, their edges broadly recurved, 

 disk strongly punctate and tricarinate, anterior margin truncate, 

 lateral margins of the hemelytra upwardly recurved, moderately 

 convex, discoidal area about as broad as the costal and subcostal 

 areas together, irregularly transversely and longitudinally carinate. 



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



Hah. Cape Colony (Coll.^Dist.). 



Cnemiandrus, gen. nov. 

 Eostrum reaching or slightly passing the posterior coxae ; rostral 

 groove parallel and reaching the posterior coxse ; antennas short, 

 moderately slender, fourth joint a little longest and incrassated ; head 

 subtriangular, convex above, apex with two very obscure short 

 obtuse spines, and a short spinous tubercle on each lateral margin 

 near apex ; pronotum with the posterior disk and the anterior 

 marginal area gibbous, between which the surface is distinctly 

 foveate, the base truncate, the lateral margins concavely sinuate, the 



