i 4 I. AHMAD 



Body comparatively robust, pale tinged black. Head only a third longer than broad with a 

 pair of brownish black spots behind ocelli ; occipital suture medially concave ; paraclypeae 

 thicker in middle and pointed at apices. Antennae dark brownish black with underside of 

 first, articulations between first and second, second and third and about basal half of fourth 

 pale. Rostrum short, hardly reaching second coxae. Lateral black line extending from 

 antenniferous tubercles on to posterior of propleuron. Pronotal disc pale, posteriorly tinged 

 black with two smooth black spots anteriorly on either side, black spots on latero-posterior tips 

 absent. Legs pale with apices of femora, tibiae and tarsi tinged black. Hemielytra tinged 

 brownish black with prominently pale veins. Posterior margin of seventh abdominal tergum 

 slightly produced in middle ; pygophore round, posterior margin medially acutely produced 

 (Text-fig. 10). 



o" genitalia : Claspers extending behind pygophore, strongly curved in middle, more or 

 less " S "-shaped, blunt at apices ; both dorsal and ventral pairs of thecal appendages present, 

 ventral, sac-like, 2 pairs of asymmetrical spiculed lateral appendages ; membranous appendage 

 short with a small round terminal appendage ; frontal, dorsal and supporting conjunctival 

 appendages wanting ; vesica with a minute gonopore (Text-fig. 14). 



$ very similar to o* in colour, general appearance and measurement. Posterior margin of 

 seventh abdominal sternum concave in middle with a small median fold (Text-fig. 15). 



$ genitalia : First gonocoxae almost conical when viewed externally, lobe-like at apices ; 

 two pairs of intervalvular sacs, anterior round and posterior pair oval, spermatheca flask-shaped, 

 thicker in middle with a very short tube (Text-fig. 13). 



Type material. Holotype $, Uganda : Southern Toro, Mbarara, Fort Portal 

 Road, 3,888-4,200 ft., 22-24. x. (S- A.Neave), B.M.(N.H.) ; allotype $ and paratypes, 

 4$, 5 $, data as holotype, B.M.(N.H.) ; Tero Forest, 2 J, 2 $, vii.1912 (C. C. Gowdey), 

 B.M.(N.H.). 



Other material. Uganda : 10^,13 9 ; Congo : 26 $, 19 $ ; Cameroons : 16^, 

 16$. 



This species seems to be very common in Congo and its range extends into Uganda 

 in the east and Cameroons in the west. The adults have been collected in every 

 month of the year except January, August and September. 



This species is isolated in the genus Stenocoris with the characters of blunt " S "- 

 shaped claspers, rounded pygophore, concave posterior margin of $ seventh abdom- 

 inal sternum and pale basal half of apical antennal segment. 



Blote described this species under the subgenus Rhabdocoris Kolenati of Leptocorixa 

 Berthold. During the present study Rhabdocoris is synonymized with Leptocorisa 

 and the latter has been separated from other subgenera with Oriento-Australian 

 species, previously considered under the subgenus Rhabdocoris. This species, being 

 different from Leptocorisa in generic characters, is placed under the monotypic 

 subgenus Pseudohptocorisa as described here. 



STENOCORIS (ERBULA) Stal. 



Erbula Stal, 1873 : 86 ; Blote, 1937 : 2 & 2 ; Villiers, 1955 : 1141, 1963 : 229 



Type-species : Stenocoris (Erbula) southwoodi sp. n. 



Body comparatively short. Head usually only slightly longer than broad ; paraclypeae 

 short and rounded at apices ; ocelli close together but distance between an ocellus and an eye 

 about half again as long as interocellar distance. Antennae with apical segment pale only at 



