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Podisus turbidus. 

 Anna turbida, Walk. Cat. Het. i. p. 140. n. 43 (1867). 



This species is still represented only by the unlegalized 

 type specimen in the British Museum. It is allied to 

 P.fuscescens, Dall. 



Rostrum dark castaneous, the second joint black. 



Podisus cynicus. 



Pentatoma cynica, Say, New Harm. Ind., Dec. 1831 ; Conipl. Writ. i. 



p. 312. n. 1 (1859). 

 Anna grandis, Dall. List Hem. i. p. 96. n. 3 (1851). 

 Podisus cynicus, Leth. & Sev. Cat. Gen. H<5ni. t. i. p. 217 (1893). 

 Podisus grandis, Leth. & Sev. loc. cit. p. 218. 



Uhler (Check-list Hem. Het. N. America, 1886, p. 4) 

 correctly sank Dallas's species as a synonym of the above ; 

 but as the authors of our best catalogue have kept them as 

 distinct, it is necessary to again draw attention to their being 

 conspecific. 



Genus Tylospilus. 



Tylospilus megaspilus. 

 Hoploxys megaspilus, Walk. Cat. Het. i. p. 141. n. 2 (1867). 



Genus Anasida. 

 Anasida funebr is, sp. n. 



Pitchy black ; eyes and a spot at base of head ferruginous. 

 Head thickly and finely punctate, with a small impunctate 

 space before each, eye ; antennae with the second and third 

 joints subequal in length, remaining joints mutilated. Pro- 

 notum coarsely punctate and rugulose, the sublateral carina} 

 near posterior angles very distinct and prominent. Scutellum 

 coarsely punctate and rugulose. Corium more opaque, 

 smooth, somewhat more sparingly punctate. Membrane 

 shining bronzy. 



Long. 16 millim.; exp. pronot. angl. 7 millim.; abd. 

 7^ millim. 



Hab. Natal (Oueinzius : Brit. Mus.). 



Allied to the West- African type of the genus, A. tenebrio, 

 Karsch, but differing by the scutellum being more elongate 

 and distinctly and angularly narrowed at about two thirds 

 from base; abdomen narrower, with the connexivum much 

 les prominent, &c. 



