422 Mr. W. L. Distant' s first report on the 



This species structurally differs from M. leivisi in the 

 following respects : — The anterior angles of the pronotum 

 are more truncate and acute, and less rounded ; the base 

 of the pronotum is not truncate, but slightly though dis- 

 tinctly concave ; and the scutellum is very different, the 

 lateral margins being concavely narrowed nearly to the 

 apex, and not abruptly sinuate a little beyond the middle, 

 as in Scott's species. Long. 12 — 13 mm. 



Hob. Nagasaki. 



Palomena angulosa. 



Cimex angulosus, Motsch., Etud., 10, p. 28 (1861). 



This species varies from green — the prevalent and 

 normal colour — to luteous above, thus approaching to 

 P. rubricornis, Scott ; a species not contained in the col- 

 lection, and which, judging from the description and the 

 absence of any " differentia specifica," appears to have 

 been separated by the red antennse. 



Sepontia cenea, n. s. 



Above, dark bronzy-green ; anterior and lateral margins 

 of the pronotum and three well separated spots at base 

 of scutellum (the central largest), bright luteous; basal 

 disk of pronotum and some discal suffusions to scutellum 

 ochraceous : antennae ochraceous, 4th and 5th joints 

 darker, sometimes pitchy ; eyes brownish ; body beneath 

 bronzy-green ; lateral margins of sternum (widest at 

 prosternum), and an abdominal marginal segmental 

 row of spots (sometimes extending to sternum), luteous ; 

 legs ochraceous ; the femora, and a basal and subapical 

 annulation to tibiae, bronzy-green. The head and pro- 

 notum are very thickly and coarsely punctate, the scu- 

 tellum somewhat more finely punctate, especially near the 

 base. Antennae with the 2nd joint slightly shorter than 

 the third, 4th longer than the 3rd, but shorter than the 

 5th. The body beneath is thickly and coarsely punctate. 

 Long. 3^ — 4 mm. ; lat. 3 — 3^ mm. 



Hab. Yuyama, Kumamoto. 



This interesting genus was founded by Stal to contain 

 two species, one from South Africa, the other received 

 from Java and the Philippines ; from the last the 

 Japanese species is very distinct, both in colour and 

 also by the relative lengths of the 2nd and 3rd joints of 

 the antennae. 



