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third shortest, just passing anterior coxae; head excavated between apices of lateral 

 lobes ; pronotum much shorter than breadth between lateral angles, which are 

 strongly produced and moderately upwardly and apically slightly recurved, lateral 

 margins of produced angles crenulate ; corium somewhat finely punctate ; posterior 

 tibise in d" spined beneath near apex, posterior femora in d a little curved ; second 

 ventral segment distinctly tuberculous on each lateral area in c? , in ? less 

 prominently so. 



Long., c? 22, 5 24 to 27 mm. 



Bab. Mubuku Valley, E. Kuwenzori, 6000-13,000 ft. 



HOLOPTEENA AFFINIS. (Plate II. figs. 15, 15 a.) 

 Holopterna affinis Dist. Aon. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8) ii. p. 441 (1908). 



Head, pronotum, and scutellum black ; corium piceous ; membrane dark bronzy ; 

 body beneath and legs black ; tarsi piceous-brown ; antennae ochraceous, the whole of 

 the first joint (excluding extreme apex), a broad subcentral annulation to second 

 joint, and a similar annulation to third joint (which, however, extends nearer apex), 

 black, first joint a little longer than pronotum and only slightly longer than second 

 joint, third shortest, fourth about subequal to first ; rostrum about reaching 

 intermediate coxse, first joint almost reaching base of head, second reaching anterior 

 cox^, third shortest and just passing anterior coxse, fourth almost reaching inter- 

 mediate coxse ; pronotum rugulose, lateral angles produced upwardly and forwardly, 

 strongly dentate on each edge, their apices acute ; second and third ventral segments 

 in c? longly tuberculate on each lateral area; posterior tibise in 6 flattened and dilated 

 and spined beneath near apex, posterior femora incrassate, moderately curved, finely 

 crenulate beneath. 



Long., d 22 mm. Exp. pronot. angl. 10 mm. 



Hab. Mokia, S.E. Kuwenzori, 3500 ft. 



Allied to H. valga Linn, and H. alata Westw., but separated from both by the 

 long, acute, and anteriorly produced pronotal angles. 



Genus Plectkopoda. 



Plectrocnemia Stal, En. Hem. iii. p. 42 (1873), nom. praocc. 

 Plectropoda Bergr. Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. xxxviii. p. 547 (1894), n. nom. 



Plecteopoda bicolok. (Plate II. figs. 13, 13 a.) 

 Plectrocnemia bicolor Hagl. Ofv. Vet.-Ak. Forh. 1895, p. 447. 

 Holopterna ellioti Dist. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. vi. p. 368 (1900). 



Mubuku Valley, E. Euwenzori, 3500 ft. ; Euwenzori (6r. F. Scott Elliot). — 

 Originally described from Usambara. 



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