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RUWENZORI EXPEDITION REPORTS. 



9. RHYNOHOTA. 



By W. L. Distant. 



Eeceived November 13, read November 17, 1908. 



[Plate II.*] 



This enumeration of the Rhynchota of Ruwenzori, which were collected by the 

 Hon. Gerald Legge and Mr. A. F. R. Wollaston, includes 56 species arranged in 

 41 genera. Of these, 11 species and 1 genus proved to be new. It also includes 

 species previously described from the collection made by Mr. G. F. Scott Elliot in 

 the -same locality, as well as a few procured on Ruwenzori by Sir H. H. Johnston. 

 So far as the Rhynchotal fauna is concerned, its affinities are, in the main, distinctly 

 West African, the South African fauna being much less represented. The absence of 

 several families from this enumeration shows that this Rhynchotal collection is not 

 exhaustive, though doubtless very representative. 



Suborder HETEROPTERA. 



Family Pentatomid^. 



Subfamily Scutellerin^. 



Genus Solenostethium. 

 Solenostethimn Spin. Ess. Hem. p. 360 (1837). 



Solenostethium sehestedi. 



Tetyra sehestedii Fabr. Syst. Rliyng. p. 130. 9 (1803). 

 Mokia, S.E. Ruwenzori, 3500 ft. — Not uncommon on the West Coast of Africa. 



Genus Steganocerus. 

 Steganocerus Mayr, Verli. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, xiv. p. 902 (1864). 



Steganocerus multipunctatus. 



Cimex multipunctatus Thunb. Nov. Ins. Sp. ii. p. 30 (1783). 

 Fort Beni, Semliki Valley. — Distributed over the whole of Africa south of the 



Sahara. 



* For explanation of the Plate, see p. 84. 



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