118 INSECTS INJURIOUS TO CACAO PLANTS IN THE BELGIAN CONGO. 



Order RHYNCHOTA. 

 By W. L. Distant. 



Family Coreidae. 

 Pendulinus devastans, sp. nov. 



Above with the head, pronotum, scutellum and corium ochraceous, thickly darkly 

 punctate ; narrow margins to the pronotum and scutellum and the margins and 

 venation to corium pale ochraceous and impunctate ; membrane shining bronzy- 

 brown ; body beneath and legs pale ochraceous ; head beneath and sternum 

 thickly but not darkly punctate, a small shining black spot on each side near outer 

 margins of posterior coxae ; tibiae sometimes moderately roseate in hue ; antennae 

 reddish-ochraceous, apical joint either paler in hue, or testaceous with the bases and 

 apices paler, basal joint moderately thickened and a little curved outwardly, its apical 

 area somewhat incrassate, first and second joints almost subequal in length, second 

 and third joints slender, second longer than third, fourth incrassate, subequal in 

 length to third ; head above centrally longitudinally incised ; lateral pronotal 

 angles subprominent ; venation of corium robust. 



Long., 13 ; breadth between pronotal angles, 4 mm. 



Immature forms. 



1st stage. — Head and pronotum fuscous-brown ; abdomen above more or less 

 roseate in hue ; body beneath and legs ochraceous ; antennae 

 strongly incrassate, the third joint distinctly dilated. 

 Long., 5-7 mm. 

 2nd stage. — Above more or less pale castaneous, on anterior and posterior 

 margins of fourth abdominal segment, a small rounded pro- 

 truberance each containing two small shining black tubercles, 

 and another black tubercle on each side near the lateral margins 

 of the segment ; antennae as in first stage. 

 Long. , 9 mm. 

 The perfect insect is allied to P. carmelita, Burm., from which it differs by the more 

 robust and differently coloured antennae, absence of the black fasciate markings 

 beneath, etc.* 



* I add a description of another a.lied species found in Natal, which is probably also 

 a destructive insect : — ■ 



Pendulinus nigromarginatus. 



Allied to P. carmelita, Burm. and C. devastans, Dist. , from both of which it differs 

 in having the lateral margins of the pronotum and more than basal half of the sub- 

 late al margins of the corium, black ; antennae ochraceous, basal joint stoutest and 

 darkest, distinctly curved and considerably longer than the second joint, which with 

 the third joint is slender, fourth joint mutilated ; body beneath pale ochraceous ; 

 legs and rostrum dark ochraceous ; other characters generally as in P. devastans. 



Long., 11-12 mm. 



Hab. Natal, near Durban (Bell Marley). 



