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le base, and the median sulcus present though obscure ; 

 e first recurrent nervure received before the middle of 



near the 



and the 



the second cubital cell, whereas in numeria and mendana it 



is received in the middle. In Valeria the third abscissa of 



the radius is as long as the second, but it is shorter in the 



typical form and in mendana. 



Bab. Solomon Islands (Froggatt). 



X. — Rhynchotul Notes.— -LI. By W. L. Distant. 



African Pentatomidae. 



Genus Odontotarsus. 

 Odontotarsus, Lap. Ess. H6m. p. G8 (1832). 



Type, O. purpureohneatus, Rossi. 



Odontotarsus druryi, sp. n. 



Head ochraceous, with two central longitudinal piceous 

 fasciae, the lateral areas strongly greyishly pilose ; antennas 

 with the first and second joints ochraceous, the third piceous 

 ochraceous at base (remainder mutilated in typical specimen) ; 

 pronotum ochraceous, sparingly coarsely punctate, two central 

 longitudinal fasciae and two on each lateral area, the outer- 

 most of each series more or less margined with greyish, a 

 short black line on each side of the central fasciae at anterior 

 area, posterior angular areas more or less greyishly pilose ; 

 scutellum ochraceous, sparingly darkly punctate, with two 

 central longitudinal sinuate piceous fasciae, bordered on 

 each side with greyish white, the lateral margins broadly 

 greyish, a semilunate piceous spot inwardly margined with 

 greyish white on each side of base ; body beneath ochra- 

 ceous, more or less greyishly pilose, the sternum strongly 

 pilose, the abdomen less so and thickly darkly punctate ; legs 

 ochraceous, more or less greyishly pilose, and with some 

 dark punctures, coxae piceous. 



Form and shape of O. caudatus, Burm., but narrower and 

 more elongate, pronotum with the lateral margins oblique, 

 the posterior angles not prominent ; apical area of the 

 scutellum centrally sulcate, the extreme apex strongly eraar- 

 ginate, not truncate. 



Long. 11^ mm. ; exp. pronot. angl. 5 mm. 



