434 Transactions of the South African Philosophical Society. 



Monanthia (Conipseuta) ornatella, Stal, En. Hem. iii. p. 133 (1873). 



Monanthia ornatella, Dist., Ann. S. Afr. Mus. ii. p. 242, pi. xv., 

 fig. 9 (1902). 



Caifraria (Stockholm Mus.). Eikatla, near Delagoa Bay (Junod, 

 Coll. Montandon). 



Since I figured this species, I have further studied the othei" species 

 that have been included in the genus Monanthia, and cannot see why 

 the great structural differences should not be recognised as generic 

 •characters. 



COMPSEUTA MONTANDONI, sp. n. (Tab. VIII., fig. 15). 



Head black ; antennae luteous, the apical joint black ; pronotum 

 v^ith the anterior lobe castaneous, the posterior prolongation luteous, 

 areolate, with the centres of the areolets piceous, the central carinas 

 and lateral margins luteous, the anterior collar greyish ; elytra 

 luteous, central areas of the areolets to discoidal area and base of 

 sutural area more or less piceous ; legs luteous ; body beneath (im- 

 perfectly seen on carded specimen) with at least the lateral areas 

 black ; anterior collar to pronotum coarsely granulate ; anterior area 

 of pronotum tumid, punctate, the carinas narrow but well raised, the 

 lateral margins a little ampliated and reflexed ; apices of the tibiae 

 piceous. 



Long. 3 mm. 



Hah. Eikatla, near Delagoa Bay (Junod, Coll. Montandon). 



Allied to C. ornatella, Stal, but differing by the more elongate and 

 apically subacute posterior prolongation of the pronotum ; pronotal 

 disk castaneous, njot black. 



The following species w^ere forwarded to me for identification by 

 Mr. Lounsbury, the Government Entomologist of the Department of 

 Agriculture, Cape Town ; and I have to thank Mr. C. W. Mally, the 

 assistant entomologist, for the excellent manner in which they reached 

 my hands. Some of the Tingididae previously described were also in 

 the collection, and I have added the notes on habits, &c., which 

 accompanied the specimens. 



Family 1.YGJE1DJE. 



Blissus diploptekus, sp. n. 



Head, antennai, pronotum, scutellum, abdomen above, ])ody 

 beneath, rostrum, and femora, black; lateral margins of abdomen 



