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agrées in habitus, but he redescribed venans Stâl under the name 

 Rh. Stàli, and later stated that there is a spécimen of it in the 

 British Muséum, « ex coll. Drege », bearing the' printed label 

 Harpactor vulneratiis Germ. Germar described the species from 

 Drege's collection, Drege's south african Hemiptera Avere deter- 

 mined by Germar, and some of my spécimens agrée well with 

 Germar's description. There can therefore in my opinion be no 

 doubt that this species is the true vulneraius of Germar. The 

 species can be well placed in the subgenus Taeniorplius although 

 the legs are paler than in the allied species. It is common in South 

 and East Africa. 



7. Phonolibes StÂl. — In the onlv spécimen of this genus 

 known to StÂl the rostrum was mutilated. In his description of 

 Ph. unicolor (of which I hâve seen several spécimens) Schouteden 

 says : « rostrum ... articulis secundo et tertio subaequalibus ». This 

 is a mistake, for the rostrum in Phojiolibes is, as in the allied 

 Asiatic gênera Tegea Stâl and Tegellula Bredd., only two- 

 jointed, the first joint being very short, the second extremely long 

 but of différent length in différent species. In Ph. bimaculatiis 

 Dist., unicolor Schout., and an undescribed species the rostrum 

 reaches the posterior margin of the prosternum, in Ph. venustus 

 Stâl it is extended to the middle of the mesosternum, and in 

 Ph. tricolor Bergr. the rostrum reaches the base of the abdomen. 

 There do not seem to be any reliable characters bv which Phono- 

 libes can be separated from Lophocephala Lap., for the head is of 

 somewhat différent length in différent species, and of the five 

 species oi Phonolibes known to me only venustus and tricolor ha^e 

 a reticulated corium; in the three other species there is a single 

 oblique crossvein in the mesocorium which thus cannot be called 

 reticulated. In the descriptions of P/z. bicolor Schout. and vicinus 

 Schout. nothing is said of the sculpture of the corium. It is very 

 likely that Phonolibes and Lophocephala must ultimately be united, 

 but as I hâve seen no Lophocephala I provisionally keep them as 

 distinct. 



8. Cleptria 5/4 /z' Bergr. and Movibasae Dist. belong to Clep- 



