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narrowed and passing base of head, third joint short and slender, 

 about half the length of second ; presternum channelled for the 

 reception of the rostrum ; pronotum sinuately narrowed to apex 

 from lateral angles which are prominent and apically subtruncate, 

 lateral margins obscurely crenulate, anterior angles subprominent, 

 anterior margin truncate, posterior margin subtruncate and about 

 as wide as base of scutellum, disk with two central slightly diverging 

 carinations ; scutellum considerably longer than half the length of 

 abdomen, its apex a little narrowed and convexly rounded, its lateral 

 margins strongly carinate ; abdomen moderately convexly rounded 

 on each side ; membrane slightly passing abdominal apex ; anterior 

 coxae longest. Allied to the Oriental genus Ambly thy reus, Westw. 

 Type : N. capensis, Dist. 



Narina capensis, sp. n. 



Stramineous ; head, disk of pronotum, broad apex to scutellum, 

 membrane, and first, second, and third joints of antennae pale 



castaneous ; lateral and basal margins of 

 head, narrow anterior margin, four discal 

 spots in transverse series, lateral pos- 

 terior angles, and posterior margin of 

 pronotum, broad basal angles and narrow 

 apical angles of corium, and a small sub- 

 apical spot on each lateral margin of 

 scutellum, piceous ; apices of intermediate 

 and posterior tarsi black ; antennae granu- 

 late, the first and second joints more promi- 

 1 J nently so ; head and pronotum finely and 



somewhat greyishly granulate, the latter levigate on anterior disk 

 and near anterior lateral margins and with two short discal pos- 

 teriorly divergent narrow discal carinations, apices of posterior 

 lateral angles subtruncate ; scutellum reticulately granulate, the 

 apex rugose ; corium finely wrinkled and punctate ; connexivum 

 granulose. 



Long. &J mm. ; exp. pronot. angl., 3 mm. 



Hob. Cape Good Hope ; Table Mountain (W. Bevins — Brit. 

 Mus.). 



Narina elizabetha, sp. n. 



Purplish-red ; basal joint of antennae, anterior, posterior, and 

 lateral margins of head, two short fasciae on anterior area of 



