46 I. AHMAD 



Body linear, pale, tinged with black. Head at least a third as long again as broad ; occipital 

 suture medially concave, arms curving outwards towards sides ; paraclypeae long, uniformly 

 thin and rounded at apices. Antennae with underside of basal segment, middle of second and 

 third and bases of fourth, pale. Rostrum long, extending well beyond apices of second coxae. 

 Lateral black line usually represented by two black dots on sides of antenniferous tubercles and 

 collar. Pronotal disc tinged with light brown, posterior angles with brownish black spots. 

 Legs with apices of femora tinged with red. Hemielytra blackish, anal and claval areas with 

 black punctures. Abdomen with dorsum, excluding connexiva, red, venter pale ochraceous. 

 Posterior margin of seventh abdominal tergum truncate ; pygophore small, rounded, with 

 emarginate posterior margin. 



o* genitalia : Claspers thicker in middle with a long thin neck, apices pointed ; dorsal 

 thecal appendages absent, ventral pair curved in middle and rounded at apices ; four left 

 lateral conjunctival appendages as in Text-fig. 121 ; frontal appendages paired, very long, 

 uniformly thin and curved near bases and apices ; four right lateral conjunctival appendages 

 as in Text-fig. 121 ; dorsal appendages as in Text-fig. 121. 



$. Body length, 14-5-16-0 mm., width, 2-1-2-4 mm - Head length, 1-8-2-0 mm., width, 

 1-4-1-5 mm. Antennae, segment I, 3-1-3-2 mm., II, 2-2-2-4 mm -» HI, 2-3-2-5 mm., IV, 

 3-0-3-6 mm. Rostrum, segment I, 1-5-1-6 mm., II, 1-5-1-6 mm., Ill, 0-7-0-75 mm., IV, 

 0-75-0-85 mm. Pronotum, length, 2-4-2-8 mm., width, 2-1-2-4 mm. Hind femora, 5-9— 

 6-2 mm. Hind tibia, 6-3-6-5 mm. Distance between ocelli, 0-4-0-5 mm., distance between an 

 ocellus and an eye, 0-7-0-85 mm. 



Very similar to $ in general appearance and colour, slightly larger ; posterior margin of 

 seventh abdominal sternum almost inverted " V "-shaped in middle as in Text-fig. 124. 



$ genitalia : First gonocoxae largely concealed by seventh abdominal sternum, apices 

 rounded ; intervalvular sacs absent, spermatheca tapering anteriorly with lateral margins 

 irregular and a small, thick and coiled tube (Text-fig. 126). 



Type material. Holotype $, South Africa : Pondoland, Port St. John, x.1923 

 (R. E. Turner), B.M.(N.H.) ; allotype $, data as holotype, B.M.(N.H.) ; paratypes, 

 South Africa : Zululand, Natal, Durban, 4 <$, 3 $, 20-21.ii.1925 (C. N. Barker), 

 B.M.(N.H.) ; Umkomaas River, ig, 1847, B.M.(N.H.) ; Uganda : Siroko R., near 

 foot of Mt. Elgon, 3,600 ft., 1 S, 1-14.viii.19n (S. A. Neave), B.M.(N.H.). 



Other material. Congo : 30 $, 36 $ ; Uganda : 1 $, 2 $ ; Angola : 2 <$ ; 

 Tanganyika : 14 $, 5 $ ; Cameroons : 1 <J ; Rhodesia (N. and S.) : 2 $. 



The range of this species seems to extend in the west into Cameroons and in the 

 east into Tanganyika, but it is particularly common in southern Africa, Rhodesia and 

 Angola. The adults have been collected from May until November. 



This species is close to S. phthisica (Gerstacker), S. pallida (Blote) and S. africana 

 sp. n. in general appearance but can easily be separated from them by the long rost- 

 rum, which extends well beyond the apices of second coxae. 



Stenocoris (Stenocoris) pallida (Blote) comb. n. 



(Text-figs. 128-137) 



Leptocorixa (Stenocoris) pallida Blote, 1937 : 2 95 



Characterized by the pale unicolourous disc of pronotum, which is without black 

 spots on posterior angles, by a black dot on sides of collar and by the form of <J and $ 

 genitalia. 



