58 Mr. W. L. Distant on 



Platynopus Icetus. 



Platynopus Icetus, Walk. Oat. Het. i. p. 127. n. 19 (1867). 



Platynopus dotatus, Walk. loc. cit. p. 128. n. 20. 



Platynopus semiscitus, Walk. loc. cit. p. 129. n. 21. 



Canthecona decorata, Voll. Faun. Ind. Neerl. iii. p. 9, pi. ii. fig. 2 (1868). 



Platynopus melacanthus. 



Pentatoma melacantha, Boisd. Voy. Astrol., Ent. p. 628, pi. ii. fig. 7 



(1835). 

 Platynopus tenellus, Walk. Cat. Het. i. p. 127. n. 18 (1867). 



Platynopus splendidulus. 



Cimex splendidulus, Fabr. Syst. Rhyng. p. 163. n. 40 (1803). 

 Platynopus splendidulus, Stal, Hem. Fabr. i. p. 16. n. 1 (1868). _ 

 Oplomus elongatus, Dall. Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1852, p. 6, pi. i. fig. 1. 



Dallas gave the habitat of his species as " in Brasilia ? " 

 Specimens exactly agreeing with his description, which repre- 

 sents the form described by Fallou as P. metallicus (Rev. 

 d'Ent. x. p. 5, 1891), are in the British Museum from Sierra 

 Leone and in my own collection from West Africa and the 

 banks of the River Aruwini (Central Africa) . 



Genus Canthecona. 



Canthecona cognata. 



Canthecona cognata, Dist. Ent. Month. Mag. xix. p. 157 (1882). 

 Canthecona insularis, Kirby, Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool. xxiv. p. 79, 

 pi. iv. tig. 4 (1891). 



Genus PlCROMERUS. 



Picromerus obtusus. 



Picromerus obtusus, Walk. Cat. Het. i. p. 133. n. 6 (1867). 

 Picromerus nigrivitta, Walk. loc. cit. n. 7. 



Genus Podisus. 



Podisus modestus. 



Anna modesta, Dall. List Hem. i. p. 101. n. 13 (1851). 

 PJiaphigaster aggressor, Walk. Cat. Het. ii. p. 359. n. 19 (1867). 



Podisus semialbatus. 

 Mormidea semialba, Walk. Cat. Het. iii. p. 553 (1868). 

 A species allied to P. falcatus, Dist. 



