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SOME UNDESCEIBED GENEEA AND SPECIES OF SOUTH 



AFEICAN EHYNCHOTA. 



By W. L. Distant. 



So far as I am aware this short paper contains the first record of 

 the Family Phymatidce being found in the Ethiopian region, and as 

 the two species here described must necessarily constitute a very 

 meagre representation of these interesting insects, it is to be hoped 

 that South African entomologists at least will endeavour to increase 

 our knowledge. 



Little is known of the Homopterous fauna of this region beyond 

 the Cicadidge and the larger Fulgoridse ; I therefore cannot help 

 appealing to the same quarter for help in the elucidation and record 

 of these somewhat neglected insects. 



HETEROPTERA. 



Family PHYMATID^. 



NAEINA, gen. nov. 



Head long, margins subparallel, postocular portion a little longer 

 than the anteocular ; ocelli placed a little nearer to base than to 

 eyes ; antennae short, robust, basal joint about as long as from eyes 

 to apex of head, robust, coarsely granulate, second and third joints 

 short, cylindrical, apical joint longest, fusiform, distinctly narrowed 

 at apex, a little narrowed at base ; rostrum extending to about middle 

 of prosternum, first joint robust, nearly reaching middle of postocular 

 portion of head, second joint a little shorter than first, apically 



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