214 Pentatominae. 
Tribe 9. 
Discocephalini. 
This tribe is entirely American, the occurrence of one Neotropical species in 
“The Peninsula” being no doubt due to accidental importation. Almost all the 
species are Neotropical, scarcely a dozen passing into Central America and Mexico, 
while two are Antillean, 
Stal 1867 O. V. A. F. XXIV. 499—501 (table of 13 genera). 
Dryptocephala. 
and one is reported from the Galapagos Islands. 
Dryptocephala Laporte 1832 Essai Hém. 55 a. 56; Fieber 1851 Abh. béhm. G. W. 
(5) VII. 482; 
Stal 1872 Svensk. Vet. Ak. Handl. 10. no. 4. p. 4 (type brullez). 
Storthia Perty 1833 Delect. An. 215; H-S. 1844 Wanz. VII. 41, Pl. 229. A—C (type 
livida = brullei). 
1 asperula ; 
Storthia asperula Perty 1834 op. cit. 216. 
2 brullei ; ; 
Dryptocephala brullei Laporte 1832 op. cit. 56; Fieber 1851 
op. cit. 434; Stal 1872 1. ¢. 
Phioea lividia (!) Perty 1833 op. cit. 168, Pl. 33. f. 13. 
Storthia livida Perty 1833 op. cit. 215. 
Dryptocephala do. Fieber 1851 op. cit. 482. 
3 eydnoides 
Storthia cydnoides Perty 1833 op. cit. 216. 
4 dentifrons 
Pentatoma dentifrons Latreille 1811 Humb. Obs. Zool. I. 265, 
Pl. 17. f. 8; and 1815 Germar’s Mag. Ent. I. 117. 
5 intregra 
Drytocephala integra Walker 1867 Cat. Het. I. 190 (laps. cal.). 
6 latiloba 
Dryptocephala latiloba Stal 1872 1. ec. 
7 lurida 
Storthia livida H-S. 1844 Wanz. VII. 42, f. 718 (not Perty). 
Dryptocephala lurida Erichson 1848 Schomb. Reise Br. Guiana 
Ill. 609. 
D. truncata Fieber 1851 op. cit. 433. 
8 obtusiceps 
Dryptocephala obtusiceps Stal 1872 1. c.; Distant 1880 B.C. 
A;, Het. I. 44, Pl. 4. £23: 
9 punctata 
Dryptocephala punctata Amyot et.Serville 1843 Hém. 112; 
Fieber 1851 op. cit. 435. 
D. dentata Fieber 1851 op. ‘cit. 433. 
D. divergens Vollenhoven 1868 Vers]. Ak. Amst. (2) II. 178. 
10 spinosa 
Dryptocephala spinosa Mayr 1864 Verh. zool. bot. Ges. Wien 
XIV. 907; and 1866 Novara Exped. Hem. 41, f. 5. 
Trincavellius. 
? Brazil. 
Brazil. 
? Brazil. 
Peru. 
Brazil (Amazons). 
Brazil (Rio de Ja- 
neiro). 
Colombia; Br. Guiana. 
Colombia; Panama. 
Brazil (Rio de Ja- 
neiro); Argentine. 
Brazil. 
Distant 1900 T. E. 8. London 163 (type galapagoensis). PL 2 F\4 | 
— 
galapagoensis 
Sciocoris galapagoensis Butler 1877 P. Zool. S. London 88. 
Discocephala. 
— 
deplanata 
Discocephala deplanata Walker 1867 Cat. Het. I, 185. 
Galapagos Is. 
Discocephala Laporte 1832 Essai 55 a. 57; Stal 1872 op. cit. p. 5 (type marmorea). 
Brazil. 
