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V. Descriptions of new genera and species of Neotropical 
Rhynchota. By W. L. Distant, F.E.S. 
[Read December 7th, 1892. | 
Tr following descriptions were written eight years ago 
at the request of Mr. Whymper for inclusion in the 
Natural History Appendix to his ‘Travels amongst the 
Great Andes of the Equator.’ This publication appeared 
in the spring of the present year, and my species and 
genera are only indicated by name, as I was refused an 
opportunity of correcting proof with the woodcuts inserted 
in the text, and therefore declined to allow the sheets to 
go to press. It thus becomes a duty I owe to my brother 
students of the order to publish the full descriptions, 
while the above explanation will serve as comment to a 
footnote which Mr. Whymper has chosen to place to the 
first page of my contribution. I also correct some errors 
in what was thus printed without my supervision. 
DESCRIPTIONS AND CORRECTIONS. 
Suborder HETEROPTERA. 
Fam. PENTATOMIDA. 
Subfam. PENTATOMINA. 
Nezara nebulosa, in Whymper’s Travels Great Andes, 
Append., p. 112 (1892). 
I originally considered a specimen collected by Mr. 
Whymper in the ‘‘ Forests above the Bridge of Chimbo”’ 
as sufficiently distinct from N. stictica, Dall., to be indi- 
cated as N. nebulosa, n. sp., but the subsequent examina- 
tion of a long series of specimens collected throughout 
Central America proved the character to be of a varietal 
nature only (Biol. Central Am. Rhynchot. Heterop., 
p- 338, ‘£1890’’). 
This is one of the errors to which I have referred, and 
N. nebulosa as a new species would have disappeared in 
the correction of the proof. 
TRANS, ENT, SOC. LOND, 1893,—PART I. (MARCH.) G2 
