South African Bhynchota. 417 



on apical area all the transverse veins are infuscate, the upper apical 

 area including the stigma dark fuscous brown ; wings hyaline, the 

 extreme margins and venation of apical area fuscous. 



Long. excl. tegm., 6|-7 mm.; exp. tegm., 13-15, mm. 



Sab. Transvaal (Brit. Mus.) ; Pretoria (Coll. Dist. and Pret. 

 Mus.). 



Allied to P. apicata, Melich. from North-East Africa, but differing 

 from the description of that species by its much smaller size, 

 different markings, &c. 



EHABA, gen. nov. 



Cephalic process long, slender, of about equal breath throughout 

 from before eyes to apex, margins carinate, under side or face only 

 slightly extending behind eyes, its lateral margins crenulate, its disk 

 sulcate, between eyes the head is hollowed between the carinate 

 margins ; clypeus globose centrally obscurely carinate ; pronotum 

 about as long as eyes, centrally strongly carinate ; mesonotum about 

 twice as long as pronotum, finely tricarinate ; abdomen moderately 

 long ; anterior tibiae not dilated ; posterier tibiae with four spines the 

 basal one short ; rostrum reaching the posterior coxae ; tegmina 

 long, more than three times longer than broad, venation longitudinal 

 to apical area where there are transverse veins ; wings much 

 broader than tegmina. 



Type : A. fasciata, Dist. 



Ehaba fasciata, sp. n. 



Head ochraceous, the lateral ridges to anterior process above 

 black, and beneath spotted with black ; pronotum brownish- 

 ochraceous with a 

 central pale ochra- 

 ceous fascia ; meso- 

 notum black with a 



central longitudinal ^-*?' ~ 1 J| / S8|i 



pale ochraceous ^HE 



fascia, the lateral 

 carinations also of 

 the same colour ; 

 abdomen above 

 black with two 

 waved macular 

 ochraceous fasciae on each lateral area, the lateral margins spotted 



