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DESCRIPTIONS OF SOME CAPSID.E FROM THE BELGIAN CONGO. 



By W. L. Distant. 



Genus Lycidocoris. 



Lycidocoris, Reut. & Popp., Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1911, p. 409 ; Popp., Acta 

 Soc. Scient. Fenn., xli, p. 182 (1912). 



Lycidocoris mimeticus. 



Lycidocoris mimeticus, Reut. & Popp., Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1911, p. 410, pi. 



xxxii, fig. 3 ; Popp., Acta Soc. Scient. Fenn. xli, p. 183 (1912). 

 This species appears to be of a most variable character and in one respect to 

 differ from both the original description and figure. In all the specimens now 

 before me, both from Uganda and the Belgian Congo, the last and very short joint 

 of the antennae is not black, as described and figured by Reuter and Poppius, but 

 is ochraceous with the extreme base black. 

 Var. A. Typical form . . . . . . . . Uganda, Lubowa (C. 0. Gowdey). 



Var. B. The black fascia to the pronotum and 

 scutellum very much reduced and ab- 

 breviated ; in one specimen almost ab- 

 sent ; the cuneus also, though always 

 black, has that colour more or less con- 

 tinued on the adjacent margin of the 

 corium proper . . . . . . . . Belgian Congo, Eala (R. Mayne). 



Found by M. Mayne on coffee bushes. 



Lycidocoris modestus, sp. nov. (fig. 1). 



Brownish-castaneous ; membrane fuliginous, the margins of the basal cell san- 

 guineous ; body beneath dull sanguineous ; legs and rostrum ochraceous ; antennae 



Fig. 1. Lycidocoris modestus, Dis!".j sp. n. 



very robust, pilose, dull castaneous, first joint short, about as long as head, second 

 about as long as pronotum, third stoutest, pyriform, about as long as scutellum ; 

 pronotum thickly, coarsely punctate and very finely wrinkled, the anterior collar 



