Mr. W. L. Distant on African Pentatomidce. 99 



anterior area more or less ochraceous, the posterior area pale 

 castaueous brown, the first sparsely darkly punctate, the 

 latter more thickly punctate, a series of black punctures 

 before the anterior margin, the cicatrices levigate and dull 

 greyish ; scutellum ochraceous, with a pale levigate spot at 

 each basal angle and with castaneous punctures on basal area, 

 a little behind middle a transverse posteriorly angulate casta- 

 neous fascia, the apical area punctured with castaneous ; 

 corium castaneous brown, with a large black spot a little 

 before middle; membrane blackish; body beneath ochra- 

 ceous, thickly castaneously punctate (imperfectly seen in 

 carded typical specimen) ; antennae pale castaneous brown, 

 second joint a little shorter than third, fourth and fifth 

 longest and subequal in length ; scutellum almost impunc- 

 tate on anterior disk ; corium thickly finely punctate ; mem- 

 brane scarcely passing abdominal apex. 



Long. 1\ mm. ; exp. pronot. angl. 5 mm. 



Hab. Congo. 



Differs from both E. signoreti, Stal, and E. mashonce, 

 Dist., by the shorter and broader structure, the distinct 

 punctures on the anterior area of the pronotum, the angulate 

 fascia to the scutellum, the blackish membrane, the non- 

 sinuate margins of the scutellum, &c. 



Genus Anasida. 

 Anasida, Karsch, Berl. ent. Zeitschr. xxxvii. p. 481 (1892). 

 Type, A. tenebrio, Karsch. 



Anasida funebris. 



Anasida funebris, Dist. Ann. & Ma<?. Nat. Hist. (7) vi. p. 59 (1900). 

 inasida tenebrio, Sellout, (part.) Rhynch. yEthiop. i. fasc. 2, p. 191 

 (1905) ; id. in Wysm. Gen. Insect, fasc. 52, Asopinae, p. 53 (1907). 



My friend Dr. Schouteden has fallen into error with the 

 above species. A. funebris is an altogether narrower and 

 more slender species than that figured by Karsch, and both 

 again are distinct from the figure given by Schouteden as 

 A. tenebrio {supra, pi. iii. fig. 12), which has the apex of the 

 scutellum narrow and pointed, and not broad and more or 

 less truncate, as in A. tenebrio, Karsch, and A. funebris, Dist. 

 For the species represented by Schouteden' s figure I propose 

 the name of A. ? schoutedeni. 



A. funebris I only know from Natal (Brit. Mus. and S. Afr. 

 Mus.). A. tenebrio was described from W. Africa; Malange 

 (Berlin Mus.). A. ? schoutedeni is from the Congo. 



[To be continued.] 



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