8() Mr. \V. L. Distant on African Pentatomidse. 



punctate, these lateral margins are somewhat rounded and 

 their anterior angles slightly but distinctly spined, a central 

 pale longitudinal fasciate line traverses head, pronotum, and 

 scutellum, the latter ochraceous, sparingly, coarsely, blackly 

 punctate, more regularly and densely along the lateral 

 margins and on each side of the central pale line, four 

 obscure blackish punctate spots at basal margin and a 

 levigate pale spot near each basal angle ; coriuin brownish 

 ochraceous, irregularly blackly punctate, the costal area 

 paler and less punctate ; membrane reaching the abdominal 

 apex, pale purplish brown ; connexivum stramineous, with a 

 small black marginal spot at the incisures ; body beneath 

 ochraceous, thickly darkly punctate, broad lateral margin to 

 the presternum and broad lateral abdominal margin uni- 

 formly pale ochraceous, the latter with a marginal black 

 spot at each incisure, on inner side of the spiracles on each 

 side is a distinctly black longitudinal fascia, and also a 

 central longitudinal fascia of the same colour ; femora 

 ochraceous or brownish ochraceous, tibia? and tarsi black ; 

 rostrum ochraceous, reaching the intermediate coxa?. 



Long. 11| mm. 



Hab. Congo Free State; W. of Kambove, 3500 to 4500 

 feet (Neave 3 Brit. Mus.). 



Genus Tropicorypha. 



Tropicorypha, Mayr, Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, 1864, p. 910; id. 

 Keise, Novara, Hem. p. 59 (1860). 



Type, T. bifida, Thunb. 



Tropicorypha scoruba. 



Pentatotna scoittla, Dall. List Hem. i. p. '243 (1851). 

 ll<ilyo»iorpha scoruba, Leth. & Sev. Cat. Gen. Hem. i. ]). 118 (1898) ; 

 Kirk. Cat, Hem. (Ilet.) i. p. 50 (1909). 



Hab. Congo (type in Brit. Mus.). 



Tropicorypha capifata. 



Hah/omorpha capitata, Hist. Nat. in Transv. p. 249, t. iii. f. 3 

 (1892). 



Hab. Transvaal. 



Tropicorypha pretorue. 

 Halyomorpka preterite, IHst. Nat. in Transv. p. 250y t. iii. f. 4 (1892). 

 Hab. Transvaal. 



