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(Haas); Kassongo (Rom); Chutes de Semlia (Mocquereys); 



Stanley-Falls (Malfeyt). 

 Schismatops gelei Dist. — Kassongo (Rom); Umangi (Wilverth) ; 



Ibembo (De Smet); Popocabacca(Loos) ; Borna (Tschoffen). 

 Gouopsis maiira Dist. — Popocabacca (Loos); Bena Bendi (Gloetens). 

 Macnna juvenca Burm.— Haut-Congo (Boulengé); Lukungu (Haas); 



Chutes de Semlia (Mocquereys); Stanley-Falls (Malfeyt); 



Kassongo (Rom); Bena Bendi (Gloetens); Uzongoda (Ver- 



bacque). 

 Gellia dilatata Sign. — Banziville (H'ermans). 



NOTES AND DESCRIPTIONS. 



Chiastosternum unicolor. 



Sphœrocoris? unicolor Dali. List Hem. I, p. 7, n. 1 (1851). 

 Asolenidium unicolor Bredd., Ent. Nachr. XXIII, p. 339 (1897). 

 Chiastosternum mutahile Karsch., Ent. Nachr. XXI, p. 266(1895). 

 Chiastosternum unicolor Bredd. 



Var. Uneatus Dist. 



Resembling var. flavo-notatus Dali., but wanting the five ochra- 

 ceous spots tothe scutellum. The submarginal ochraceous fasciaat 

 the base of scutellum is also narrower and not widened posteriorly. 



Hab. : Lukungu (Haas); Umangi (Wilverth); Bena Bendi (Gloe- 

 tens); Zongo (Tllkens). 



Caura ?ntermedia sp. n. — Fuscous; basai joint of antennse, 

 latéral and apical margins of head and a basai spot a little behind 

 and before eyes, latéral margins of pronotum, basai latéral margins 

 of pronotum, abdomen above and connexivum, body beneath basai 

 joint of rostrum, coxge and trochanters sanguineous. Body beneath 

 with five séries of black spots one central and two latéral — of 

 thèse the outermost are irregular in size and largest, and the central 

 are arranged in groups of three. 



Pronotum unarmed ; latéral margins of head and pronotum 

 distinctly reflexed ; second and third joints of the antennae subequal, 

 or third slightly longer than second. 



Long. 13 to 15 mill. 



Hab. : Congo, Lukungu (Ch. Haas). 



A species intermediate between C. pugillator Fabr. and C. rufi- 

 ventris Germ. From the first it is separated by the absence of the 

 pronotal spines; from the second apart from other characters by the 

 difïerently coloured margins of the head and pronotum. 



Carbula scapularis sp. n. — Ochraceous, thickly nd darkly 

 punctate. Head with a slightly roseate hue, about as long as the 



