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Until we learn whether the name Spudaeus Gistl has a show 

 of. legitimacy, if ever so little, I think there is no reason to 

 abandon the name Spudaeus Dall. (Of the names proposed by 

 Gistl in Hemiptera one at most can be used: Euphcno for the 

 preoccupied name Macrops Burm. in the Reduviidae). 



Paramenestheus nercivus Dall. 



Sciocoris nerchms Dall., placed in our catalogues in the genus 

 Menestheus Stal, ought to be transferred to Paramenestheus 

 Bredd. It is true that Stal cited nercivus as the type of 

 Menestheus, but from the information which Distant in Ann. 

 and Mag. of Nat. Hist. (8) VI. p. 469, gives of Dallas's type 

 it is clear that Stal had wrongly identified nercivus, with which 

 his description of the head and antennae does not at all agree. 

 Menestheus was probably founded on a still undescribed spe- 

 cies allied to M. cuneatus Dist. Judging from the description 

 it is probable that M. doddi Dist. belongs to neither of these 

 genera. 



Turrubulana plana Dist. 



Distant has totally misunderstood the systematic position of 

 this insect, placing it in the Halyinae near the African genus 

 Atelocera Lap. It pertains to the true Pentatominae and is 

 closely allied to the Australian genus Lubentius Stal, from 

 which it differs principally by the longer and narrower, later- 

 ally bisinuated and apically not rounded head, by the second 

 antennal joint not reaching the apex of the head, the longer 

 second rostral joint (reaching the middle coxa;), the slightly 

 elevated, more deeply sinuate apical pronotal margin, the long- 

 er frena, and by having the tips of the membranal veins united 

 by a more or less continuous transverse vein parallel to the 

 margin of the membrane. The membrane is described as 

 "black" with "the apex paler," but it is subhyaline with brown 

 veins. It appears to be black on account of the underlying 

 black dorsal surface. The ground color of the upper side is 

 normally reddish ochraceous. I have another allied new genus 

 which will be described in a forthcoming paper on Hemiptera 

 from Central Australia. 



