On Asopinse and Tessaratominse. 55 



VII. — Rhynchotal Notes. — V. Heteroptera : Asopinas and 

 Tessaratominse. By W. L. Distant. 



The present communication calls for little comment. The 

 Asopinse still require more generic revision to bring them 

 into line with the main division of the Pentatomidae, to which 

 they belong. The cause is not difficult to see, and is an 

 adherence to supposed authority. Stal treated the Asopinse 

 in the first part of his ' Enumeratio Hemipterorum,' and 

 there used subgenera for what in the later parts of his work 

 he would distinctly have regarded as genera. 



This paper refers to Walker's genera and species belonging 

 to the above two subfamilies, as contained in vols, i.-iii. of 

 his ' Catalogue of Hemiptera-Heteroptera.' 



Asopinx. 

 Genus Heteroscelis. 



Heteroscelis bimaculata. 

 Platynopus bimaculatus, Walk. Cat. Het. i. p. 124. n. 6 (1867). 



Genus MlNEUS. 



Mineus triangularis. 



Strachia triangularis, Walk. Cat. Het. ii. p. 323. n. 42 (1867). 



Genus Cermatulus. 



Cermatulus nasalis. 



jElia nasalis, Westw. in Hope Cat. i. p. 32 (1837). 



Rhaphigaster pentatomoides, Walk. Cat. Het. ii. p. 370. n. 81 (1867). 



Asopus binotatus, Walk. Cat. Het. i. p. 144 (1867). 



Walker gives Brazil as a habitat for his A. binotatus, 

 which is clearly an error, there being not the slightest doubt 

 that it is a synonym of the common Australian species. 



Genus Dorycoris. 



Dorycoris fuscosus. 



Asopus fuscosus, Germ, in Silb. Rev. p. 187 (1837). 

 Rhaphigaster perornatus, Walk. Cat. Het. iii. p. 567 (1868), 



