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lateral angles broadly rounded, the disk distinctly tricarinate, with a. 

 fainter and much more obscure carination on each lateral area ; 

 hemelytra opaque, closely and finely reticulate, with a well-defined 

 clavus, and sutural, discoidal, subcostal and costal areas, the 

 diseoidal area well defined by a raised carina, the discoidal and 

 subcostal areas with a few raised transverse lines, much more dis- 

 tinct on the subcostal area; legs somewhat short, femora slightly 

 thickened. 



Cnemiandeus typicus, sp. n. (PI. XV., fig. 18). 



Dull pale ochraceous, opaque, the sutural area paler ; apical 

 joint of antennae and the tarsi subpiceous ; head and pronotum 

 coarsely punctate, antennae with the second and third joints sub- 

 equal in length, fourth slightly longest, thickened and fusiform ;, 

 other structural characters as detailed in generic diagnosis. 



Long. 2-|— 3 mm. 



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



Ceeatinodbrma foenicata (PI. XV., fig. 4). 



Ceratinoclerma fornicata, Stal, En. Hem. iii. p. 117 (1873). 

 Hab. Caffraria (Stockholm Mus.). 



Genus LEPTOSTYLA. 



Leptostyla, Stal, En. Hem. iii. pp. 120, 125 (1873) ; Champ. BioL 

 Centr. Amer. Ehynch. ii. p. 11. (1897). 



Although this somewhat extensive genus has hitherto been con- 

 sidered an exclusively American one, I have little hesitation in 

 including this African species, taking Mr. Champion's amplified 

 generic characters (supra), especially as regards the size of the 

 pronotal hood, which in the species described below exhibits the 

 maximum of development. 



Leptostyla natalicola, sp. n. (PI. XV., fig. 15). 



Moderately elongate, broad, pale hyaline ; head, disk, posterior 

 area and lateral margins of pronotum, sutural area and an oblique 

 subapical fascia to the hemelytra umber-brown ; antenna ochraceous, 

 slightly fuscous at apices ; venation of the hemelytra pale brownish, 

 sutural area with an elongate excavate blackish spot. Head with 

 three long and acutely pointed spines — one median and two lateral ; 

 antennae with the first joint about twice as long as second ; pronotal 



