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appendages absent ; ventral pair thicker at base and very thin and rounded at apices ; four 

 left conjunctival appendages as in Text-fig. 150 ; frontal conjunctival appendages paired, 

 left slightly longer and straighter ; four right lateral conjunctival appendages as in Text-fig. 

 150 ; a pair of dorsal conjunctival appendages as in Text-fig. 150 without second spine-like 

 appendage. 



$. Very similar to $ in general appearance, colour and measurements ; posterior margin of 

 seventh abdominal sternum medially strongly indented, forming rounded processes on either 

 side (Text-fig. 151). 



$ genitalia : First gonocoxae not concealing a large portion of ninth paratergite, rounded 

 at apices ; intervalvular sacs absent ; spermatheca broad, curved, with a short coiled tube. 



Type material. Holotype <J, Uganda : Entebbe, xii.1912 (C. C. Gowdey), 



B.M.(N.H.) 

 B.M.(N.H.) 



B.M.(N.H.) 



; allotype $ and paratypes, 1 ^, 2 $, with same data as holotype, 

 ; shores of L. Isolt or Wanala, 3,800 ft., 1 $, 7-8.1.1912 (S. A. Neave), 

 ; Bugma Forest, Ruwenzori Range, 6,500 ft., Kimbe, Tero Forest, 



Semliki Plain, near south shore of L. Albert, 2,200 ft., 4 <$, 4 $, ii, vii, ix, xii.1912, 



i.1913 (various collectors), B.M.(N.H.). 



Other material. Sierra Leone : 4 <$, 1 $ ; Ghana : 4 <$, 1 $ ; Nigeria : 1 $ ; 

 Cameroons : 1 <$ ; Congo : 155 <$, 141 $ ; Uganda : 2 <$, 1 $. 



This is a West African species. Its range extends in the east into central Africa, 

 Congo and East Africa, Uganda and in the west into Sierra Leone. Adults have been 

 collected in every month of the year but it seems that it is abundant in the months of 

 April and May. 



05 mm. 

 Figs. 148-150. Stenocoris sordida, $ 



inner and outer views 



148, terminalia, dorsal view ; 149, claspers, 

 150, aedeagus (inflated), ventral view. 



