NEZARA.—BANASA. 79 
ANTILLES, Cuba 202223, Jamaica 18, St. Domingo118, St. Vincent®; Conompra ??; 
VENEZUELA 18; Guiana, Cayenne5. Evropz ? 16, Madeira # 18, Teneriffe 1°, Arrica 74, 
Morocco (Blackmore), Algeria 13, Abyssinia 17, West Coast 1? 1621 (coll. Dist.). SourH 
Arnica !8 21, Cape of Good Hope § 185, Natal (coll. Dist.) ; Mapacascar!®, Asta4; 
Curva !!; Japan 28; Corza!8; Inpra 35, Bombay (Leith), Cuna’, N. Bengal 14, Assam *°; 
Matacca (coll. Dist.); Java®4®; Puiuupines'®; CeLmpes (coll. Dist.). AUSTRALIA, 
Queensland (coll. Dist.). 
Two specimens received from Costa Rica represent the typical form of the species 
(Var. a, Stil). Very few observers appear to have paid much attention to this widely 
spread insect. It is probable that its wide dissemination has been greatly assisted by 
the winds; and the writer, on his return from India a few years since, found several of 
this species which had been blown on board when more than a hundred miles south- 
west of Madagascar. 
3. Nezara viridans. 
Rhaphigaster viridans, Stal, Eug. Resa, Ins. p. 228. 21°. 
Nezara viridans, Stal, En. Hem. ii. p. 41. 7’. 
Hab. Panama 12,—Gatapagos Istes!?; Peru, Callao ? 2, 
I insert this species, which I have not seen, on the authority of Stal. 
4. Nezara marginata. (Tab. VII. fig. 23.) 
Pentatoma marginata, Palis. Beauv. Ins. p. 147, Hém. t. 10. f. 1’. 
Nezara marginata, A. & 8. Hist. des Hém. p. 145. 2°; Stal, En. Hem. ii. p. 42. 10°. 
Rhaphigaster spirans, Dall. List Hem. i. p. 280, 17*;' Stal, Stett. ent. Zeit. xxiii. p. 106. 80°. 
Pentatoma (Nezara) marginata, Guér. in Sagra’s Hist. Cuba, Ins. p. 374°. 
Nezara jurgiosa, Stal, Sett. ent. Zeit. xxiii. p. 106. 81’. 
Hab. Mexico 2457 (coll. Sign., Mus. Vind. Ces., Mus. Berol.); Guaremata, San Juan, 
Vera Paz, Capetillo, Aceituno, Duefias (Champion); British Honpuras, river Sarstoon 
(Blancaneaux), Costa Rica, Irazu (Rogers) ; Panama (Boucard).—AntTILLES, Cuba 36, St. 
Domingo !2; Cotomsia °, Bogota (coll. Dist.). 
A Mexican specimen is figured. 
BANASA. 
Banasa, Stil, Rio Hem. i. p. 24 (1860). 
Nezara (part.), Stal, Ofv. Vet.-Ak. Férh. 1867, p. 580. 
Atomosira, Uhler, Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. xiv. p. 98 (Feb. 1871). 
This genus is closely allied to Nezwra. The body is subovate and less oblong, head 
sinuated on each side, lobes of equal length, and apex rounded. This is another of 
those genera in which the differences seem more apparent than real; the shape of the 
body and different coloration gives Banasa a more distinct appearance from the genus 
