1900.] ON THE RHYNCHOTA IN THE HOPE COLLECTION. 807 



diffuse. White lineation of body much reduced ; the upper 

 shoulder-stripe very short on one side in the single skin and 

 absent on the other. Lower shoulder-stripe broken into spots. 

 Vertical bands inconspicuous, three on one side and four on the 

 other, but only the two middle bands at all prominent. Five 

 stripes mentioned in Heuglin's description, 



Female. General colour bright rufous, but the nape and the 

 middle line of the back over a breadth of about 4 to 6 inches 

 fuscous brown, in unusual contrast to the rufous sides. White 

 stripes numerous and conspicuous ; the lower shoulder-stripe pro- 

 minent, well-developed, continuous, rather longer than usual ; 

 upper shoulder-stripe, on the other hand, narrow and little developed. 

 A r ertical stripes very numerous, 9 on one side and 10 on the other, 

 therefore more in number (though hardly so broad and sharply 

 defined) than in T. s. scriptus. 



Basal length of male skull (c.) 196 mm., greatest breadth 90. 

 Horns (in straight line) 258 mm. 



Fernale skull: basal length 193 mm., greatest breadth 86, 

 orbit to muzzle 107. 



This Nilotic form of the Common Busbbuck is distinguished 

 by having its female more numerously striped than the male, the 

 sexes being about equal in this respect in T. s. senptus, and the 

 male more striped than the female in T. s. ornatus • also by its 

 well-haired neck, which separates it from T. s. fasciatus. 



Singly the sexes may be distinguished — the male by its few 

 and the female by its many stripes from the corresponding sexes 

 of the allied subspecies, and the female is also characterized by the 

 contrasted fuscous area on the back. 



4 Revision of the Rhynchota belonging to the Family 

 Pentatomida in the Hope Collection at Oxford. By 

 W. L. Distant. 



[Received June 18, 1900.] 



(Plates LII. & LIH.) 



Iu the years 1837 and 1842 there were published at Oxford 

 Parts 1. and II. of ' A Catalogue of Hemiptera in the Collection 

 of the Rev. F. W. Hope,' which still form part of the well-known 

 " Hope Collection '* in the Oxford Museum. Part I. bears no name 

 of author, and the descriptions therein have very often been ascribed 

 to Hope, as his name is appended to the nomenclature. Part II. 

 is stated to have been written by the late Prof. Weslwood, and 

 there is no doubt that he was the author of both, and that conclusion 

 is now generally followed by entomologists. 



The publication consists of short Latin descriptions of a con- 

 siderable number of species considered as then undescribed ; but 

 of these many now rank only as synonyms ami mostly require 

 generic revision — a result which causes little surprise when the 



