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stramineous spot, lateral areas darker and more darkly punc- 

 tate ; legs black ; margins of head, pronotum, and corium 

 longly pilose ; head thickly finely punctate ; antennae 

 black, second joint not passing apex of head ; pronotum 

 thickly and somewhat finely punctate, with an obscure 

 central longitudinal line, somewhat obscurely transversely 

 depressed near middle ; scutellum thickly and a little more 

 coarsely punctate, with an obscure, somewhat paler, central 

 longitudinal line (in some specimens with the central line 

 and the lateral margins distinctly brownish ochraceous) ; 

 corium thickly punctate; membrane dark fuliginous or 

 piceous, the veins prominent ; rostrum brownish testaceous, 

 its apex black and reaching the intermediate coxae; body 

 beneath more or less finely punctate ; posterior tarsi with 

 the basal joint only slightly longer than the following 

 joints together. 



Long. 6-7 mm. 



Hab. Congo Free State ; Katanga, W. of Kanabove, 

 Lufira R. (Neave, Brit. Mus.). 



Genus Pododus. 

 Pododus, Amy. & Serv. Hist. H6m. p. 101 (1843). 



Type, P, orbicularis, Burm. 



Pododus ovulus. 



Sciocoris ovulus, Dall. List Hem. i. p. 132 (1861). 



Pododus ovulus, Dist. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (7) iv. p. 430 (1899). 



Pododus striates, Dist. Ent. Month. Mag. xxviii. p. 238 (1892). 



Hab. S. Africa. 



When I described P. striatus I had not discovered that 

 the Sciocoris ovulus, Dall., was a Pododus, which I did when 

 rearranging the Brit. Mus. Coll. in 1899 (supra). 



Is the Sciocoris mundus, Germ., a still older name for this 

 species ? 



Dreoea, gen. nov. 



Flatly compressed, somewhat broadly ovate ; head long, a 

 little shorter than pronotum, considerably narrowed to apex, 

 the lateral margins straight to a little in front of eyes and 

 then a little concavely sinuately narrowed to apex, the lateral 

 lobes considerably longer than the central but not meeting 

 beyond it ; the antenniferous tubercles are remote from the 

 lateral margins of the head and inside longitudinal lines* 



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