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with them a fragment of the bark of a leguminous shrub, which was channeled and 
grooved by this species. About forty eggs had been disposed in double rows, but 
most of the eggs had lost their tops, caused by the fracture and escape of the larvee. 
Unfortunately the early forms of these larva? were not found. The perfect eggs 
are white, very shining, and glittering like small pearls. I figure a portion of this 
channeled bark, with some of these eggs, and the remains of empty shells still fixed 
in the crevices. 
Size, 7x4 mm. 
Habitat, —-Raniseram, S. India. 
OXYRHACHIS TANGANENSIS. 
(Plate XLIX. fig. 7.) 
This species is somewhat divergent from the form of Oxyrhachis, inasmuch as the 
pronotal horn is sinuous rather than straight, and it is free above the abdomen. 
The tegmina have the neuration of Oxyrhachis, and are smoky hyaline with brown 
veining. Body black with a pale pubescence. Metopidium high, with the 
suprahumerals pointed by the front but slightly truncated by the side view. Legs 
black and not dilated, in which respect also it rather diverges from Oxyrhachis’ 
Frons hirsute. 
Size, 8x4 mm. 
Habitat. —Tanga, South Africa. 
Genus : DAUNUS. 
Stal, Hemip. Afric. iv. p. 87. GUfv. Yet. Akad. Eorh. pp. 282-284 (18G9). 
Stal gives an insufficient diagnosis of his genus, which appears to show several 
affinities to Oxyrhachis, and to his genus Centruchus. 
In his synopsis he says: “ Cornubus lateralibus thoracis basi triquetris, sursurn 
ab anticie et postico sensim compressis apici latis et truncatis; lateribus scutelli 
distinguendis.” 
Mr. Kirby is inclined to place certain species, now in the British Museum, under 
the genus Daunus as above, and accordingly I range the following under this 
head, rather than propose a new genus, though they only partially agree with the 
diagnosis. 
Mr. Kirby gives a list of nine described species, all catalogued as Centrotus. 
DAUNUS DECISUS, Walk. 
(Plate L. figs. 1, la, lb, $ and $ ). 
Walk. l.c. p. G21. Centrotus vitta, Walk. C. truncaticornis, Walk. C. contorta, Walk. 
Dark fuscous, punctured with blunt somewhat divergent suprabumerals. 
