252 Annals of the South African Museum. 



Paet III.— DESCEIPTIONS OF SOME NEW SPECIES 

 FEOM YAEIOUS LOCALITIES. 



Family PENTATOMID^. 



Seveeiniella cameeoki, sp. n. 



Luteous, irregularly darkly punctate, the punctures black on head 

 and pronotum, castaneous on scutellum ; lateral marginal areas of 

 the pronotum luteous, sparingly punctate ; scutellum very indis- 

 tinctly rugulose, the surface interspersed with levigate, luteous 

 rugulosities ; sternum piceous, opaque, lateral areas of prosternum, 

 lateral margins of meso- and metasterna, coxee, and legs, luteous ; 

 apices of femora and bases of tibiae narrowly piceous ; abdomen 

 brownish ochraceous, the lateral areas a little paler beyond the 

 stigmata ; ocelli black. 



^ . Head from base to apex of anterior process very slightly 

 longer than scutellum, the prolonged cephalic process biangulate at 

 apex, the angles subacute, their margins almost obliquely straight. 



2 . Head broad, shorter than pronotum, prominently cleft 

 between the apices of the central lobes, obliquely straight for about 

 half the length from eyes, and then obliquely truncate to apex. 



Long. (^ 18, 2 11^ mm. ; max. lat., <? 10, ? 9 mm. 



Hab. British Nyasaland ; Zomba (K. I. Cameron). 



Allied to the West African S. haasi, Montand., from which it 

 differs by the shorter cephalic process in the S' > with its apex not 

 concave, but angulate ; lateral margins of pronotum less angulately 

 produced, &c. 



DiPLOXYS watebbeegensis, sp. n. 



Head ochraceous, central area brownish and punctate, lateral 

 margins impunctate, extreme edge fuscous ; antennae reddish 

 ochraceous, fourth and fifth joints black, base of fourth joint reddish 

 ochraceous; pronotum ochraceous, very coarsely punctate, anterior 

 marginal area more finely punctate, lateral angles acutely and 

 laterally produced somewhat reddish, their apices black ; scutellum 

 ochraceous, basal area and central margins coarsely blackly punctate, 



