South African Tingididae. 433 



stramineous ; eyes piceous ; pronotum with the anterior area, 

 lateral and posterior margins, and carinse, very pale stramineous, 

 some transverse linear black markings at posterior margin of 

 anterior area ; margins of elytra and of discoidal area very pale 

 stramineous ; sutural area speckled with brown ; abdomen beneath 

 castaneous thickly greyishly pilose ; legs and rostrum ochraceous : 

 apex of rostrum, extreme apices of tibiae, and apices of the tarsi^ 

 ]:)lack ; pronotum finely granulate, tricarinate, central carination 

 continuous, two lateral carinations only existing on posterior pro- 

 longation ; the lateral margins and anterior area very distinct ; 

 elytra with discoidal area, excluding margins, finely rugosely 

 areolate, sutural area a little more prominently areolate. 



Long. 4 mm. 



Rah. Cape Town (C. G. H.). 



" Very common at Cape Town during the latter part of the summer, 

 working mainly on the under side of the leaves of Olea curopea, which 

 soon turn yellow and have the peculiar granular appearance often 

 caused b}' Hemiptera " (C. W. Mally). 



MoNANTHiA MiTEATA, sp. n. (Tab. YIII., fig. 14 and 14a). 



Pale piceous, mottled with obscure ochraceous; discoidal area of the 

 elytra obscure ochraceous, with two conical piceous rugosities, one at 

 middle, the other at apex ; subcostal and costal areas hyaline, with 

 the margins of the areolets piceous ; pronotum with the lateral areas 

 giobosely dilated, broadly upwardly reflexed and shell-like, central 

 disk rugose, central carination continuous and profound; body 

 beneath dark piceous ; legs brownish-ochraceous ; antennae mutilated ; 

 basal areas of the raised pronotal margins hyaline, areolate, margins 

 01 areolets, piceous. 



Long. 3 mm. 



Hah. Graham stown. 



" Very abundant at Grahamstown, where it is so destructive to 

 sagn that it is scarcely possible to grow it " (C. W. Mally). 



Genus COMPSEUTA. 



Mo7iantJda, subgen. Compseuta, Stal, En. Hem. iii. p. 133, 1873. 

 Type. 0. ornatella, Stal. 



Compseuta ornatella. 



Trojndocheila ornatella, Stal, Ofv. Vet.-Ak. Forh. 1855, p. 37, 1. 

 Monanthia (PhysatocJiila) ornatella, Stal, Hem. Afr. iii. p. 28, 3 



(1865). 



