364 N. CHARLES ROTHSCHILD—NEW GENUS AND SPECIES OF CLINOCORIDAE 
the width of the eye, while some of those at the posterior portion are about as long 
as the width of the eye. Scutellum transverse and of almost the same width 
throughout, but the posterior edge is produced into a minute point in the centre 
fitting into the elytra; the lateral edges of the scutellum do not cover the dorsal 
surfaces of the pleura. The elytra transverse, widest towards the suture, and 
shortest at the sides, sutural angle completely rounded off, basal margin almost 
straight except for being incurved at the centre, apical margin rounded. The 
elytra bear at and near the lateral margin about ten hairs slightly longer than 
the width of the eye. 
Prosternum glabrous in the centre of the chitinized portion. Mesosternum 
with a patch of hairs in the centre, besides 5 or 6 longer bristles at the lateral 
edges. Metasternum very characteristic, lanceolate, being widest in the centre 
and narrowing backwards and forwards. 
The bristles of the posterior row of the abdominal tergites 1 to 5 are prolonged, 
being more than twice the length of the anterior hairs of these tergites. The 
bristles at the sides of the posterior tergites are short and hardly project beyond 
the edge of the abdomen. 
The femora are rather stout, with an irregular row of short hairs on the upper 
surface. All the tibiae possess a pseudo-joint at about four-fifths of their length, 
a very distinctive character not known in any other species.* Apical tuft of 
hair very distinct in the fore and mid-tibiae, but absent in the hind tibiae. All 
the bristles of the tibiae are pointed and not truncate. The relative lengths of 
the femora, tibiae, and tarsi of the hind leg are as follows :—46 : 55:17. 
The eighth sternite of the male is asymmetrical, with a bunch of spine-like 
truncate hairs situated on each’side. The female has numerous spine-like trun- 
cate hairs ventrally at the apex of the abdomen. 
Length, 4 mm. 
Five examples of this remarkable insect were collected by Mr. F. J. Jackson, 
C.B., C.M.G., Governor of the Uganda Protectorate, on the 12th February, 
1911, at Kalindini, near Mombasa, and were found in a house in which alterations 
were being carried on, and which contained under the roof large numbers of the 
* White-winged Bat,” most probably Taphozous hildegardeae. 
* This character is absent in all the known species of CLINOCORIDAE and is only found among 
insects in the PoLYCYTENIDAE and in some of the NYcreRrBiipDAn, both of which are parasites of 
bats. In the two species of Clinocoris previously recorded from bats (péipistrelli, Jenyns, and 
pélosellus, Horvath), pseudo-joints are absent. 
