72 W. L. DISTANT. 



with foveate impressions and with a central obtuse tubercle, the lateral margins 

 with long pilosity ; scutellum thickly coarsely punctate and with a distinct central 

 longitudinal ridge ; corium thickly finely punctate, the clavus more coarsely punctate ; 

 legs with thick long pilosity ; membranal veins somewhat coarse. 



Long. 8-9 mm. 



Belgian Congo : Eala, on cinchona (R. Mayne). 



Lycidocoris thoracicus, sp. nov. (fig. 2). 



In colour markings closely allied to the preceding species, L. modestus, bub 

 structurally distinct by the slightly longer and anteriorly broader pronotum, the 



Fig. 2. Lycidocoris thoracicus, Dist., sp. n. 



collar being much broader and longer ; the central longitudinal carination on the 

 scutellum is also somewhat less pronounced anteriorly, but distinctly tuberculate 

 near apes ; tegmina a little darker and more opaque. 



Long. 9 mm. 



Belgian Congo : Eala, on indigenous rubiaceous plant (R. Mayne). 



Genus Chamus. 



Chamus, Dist., Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (7), xiii, p. 197 (1904) ; Beut. & Popp., Trans. 

 Ent. Soc. Lond., 1911, p. 413 ; Popp., Acta Soc. Scient. Fenn., xli. p. 192 (1912). 



Chamus bellus, sp. nov. (fig. 3). 



Head and pronotum black ; antennae pale stramineous, the basal joint black ; 

 scutellum black ; hemelytra very pale ochraceous, basal area of clavus black, before 

 cuneus a broad transverse dark castaneous fascia ; body beneath and legs very 

 pale ochraceous ; head between the eyes, and the lateral areas of the prosternum, 

 black ; basal joints of the antennae robust, very coarsely hirsute, much attenuated 

 at base, second joint much longer than third, fourth shortest, and in one specimen 



