Mr. W. L. Distant on African Pentatomidse. 97 



Pentatoma mentiens, Walk. Cat. Het. ii. p. 296 (1867). 

 Nezara viridula, Stal (part.), En. Hem. ii. p. 41 (1872). 

 JEthemenes unicolor, Stal, En. Hem. v. p. 74 (1876). 

 Nezara chloris, Dist. Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1900, p. 813. 

 Nezara cethiops, Dist. Trans. Eut. Soc. Load. 1900, p. 813. 

 JEthemenes chloris, Schout. Ann. Mus. Congo Belg., Zool. iii. sect. ii. 



t i. fasc. i. p. 58 (1909). 

 JEtliemenes cethiops, Schout. loc. cit. 

 JEthemenes stalianus, Kirk. Cat. Hem. (Het.) i. p. 47 (1909). 



Hah. Sierra Leone (fide Westwood). Gambia (Brit. Mus.). 

 Congo (Coll. Dist.). Brit. Centr. Africa; Karonga (An- 

 drews, Brit. Mus.). Zanzibar (Zanquebar) (Brit. Mus.). 

 N.E. Rhodesia; Serenje Distr. (Neave, Brit. Mus.). Blue 

 Nile [Flower, Brit. Mus.). 



This species varies in coloration from bright green, as iu 

 typical chloris, to purplish brown, as in typical cethiops. 



Genus Nezara. 

 Nezara, Amy. & Serv. Hist. Hem. p. 143 (1843). 



Type, N. viridula, Linn. 



Nezara rinaspus. 



Rhaphigaster rinaspus, Dall. List Hem. i. p. 277 (1851). 



Menida rinaspus, Bergr. Rev. d'Ent. x. p. 210 (1891). 



Nezara rinaspus, Dist. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (7) v. p. 392 (1900) ; 



Schout. Ann. Mus. Congo Beige, Zool. ser. iii. t. i. fasc. i. p. 61 



(1909). 



The type from Sierra Leone is still alone represented in 

 the British Museum. Dr. Schouteden has recorded it from 

 Kilimandjaro and Meru (Sjostedt's Exped.), and I had 

 already seen examples from the Haut-Congo (Ann. Soc. Ent. 

 Belg. 1901, p. 27). 



Bergroth (svpra) stated that the species "est sans doute 

 une Menida" which evidently led Lethierry and Severin 

 astray in enumerating it as a Menida in their Cat. Hem. 

 (1893). 



Amatembuna, gen. nov. 



Head about as long as breadth at base including eyes, the 

 lateral margins sinuate, lobes about equal in length, the 

 apices of the lateral obliquely rounded ; ocelli near base and 

 much nearer to eyes than to each other ; antennae with the 

 basal joint not reaching apex of head, second joint shorter 

 than third, fourth and fifth longest and subequal in length ; 

 rostrum reaching the posterior coxse, second and third joints 



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