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directed ; body beneath and legs chocolate-brown, tibiae and tarsi ochraceous, bases of 

 tibiae black; rostrum with basal joint just passing eyes, second joint reaching anterior 

 coxae, and about equal in length to fourth joint, third a little shorter than first ; 

 prosternum palely pilose and coarsely punctate ; abdomen with oblique greyish lines 

 on each lateral area. 



Long. 9 mm. 



Hah. Ruwenzori, 5000-6000 ft. {G. F. Scott Elliot). 



A strikingly marked species described from a single and somewhat imperfect 

 specimen. 



Subfamily Altdin^. 



Genus Eiptortds. 

 Riptorius Stal, Ofv. Vet.-Ak. Forh. 1859, p. 460. 



ElPTOKTUS TENUICOENIS. 



Alydus tenuicornis Dall. List Hem. ii. p. 471 (1852). 

 Ruwenzori [G. F. Scott Elliot). — Originally described from Sierra Leone. 



Subfamily Cobizin^. 



Genus Seeinetha. 

 Serinetha Spin. Ess. Hem. p. 247 (1837). 



Serinetha h>ematica. 



Leptocoris hcematicus Germ, in Silb. Rev. Ent. v. p. 144 (1837). 

 Mubuku Valley, E. Ruwenzori, 5000-7000 ft.— Found also in South and West 

 Africa, Madagascar, and Mauritius. 



Family Ptrrhocoeid^. 

 Subfamily Largin^. 



Genus Phtsopelta. 

 Physopelta Amy. & Serv. Hist. Hem. p. 271 (1843). 



Phtsopelta melanoptera. 



Physopelta melanoptera Dist. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (7) xiv. p. 61 (1904). 

 Mubuku Valley, E. Ruwenzori, 5000-7000 ft. — Originally described from West 

 Africa. 



