396 Mr. W. L. Distant on Pentatominfe. 



Genus Men I DA. 

 Menida histrio. 



Cimex histrio, Fabr. Mant. ii. p. 296. n. 176 (1787). 



Rhophigaster strachioides, Walk. Cat. Het. ii. p. 365. n. 63 (1867). 



Menida apicalis. 

 Rhaphigaster apicalis, Dall. List Hem. i. p. 28o (1851). ■ 



Menida megaspila. 

 Antestia megaspila, Walk. Cat. Het. iii. p. 559 (1868). 

 Scutellum very broad — Menida ? 



Menida lahecula, sp. n. 



Ocliraceous, thickly, coarsely, brovvnly punctate. Head 

 with the lateral and basal margins and the margins of the 

 central lobe piceous. Pronotum with two transverse foveate 

 spots on anterior area. Scutellum with a large discal casta- 

 neous spot near base and two smaller spots of the same colour 

 near apex, behind which is a smaller linear spot ; apex paler 

 and less punctate. Connexivum ochraceous, spotted with 

 castaneous. Body beneath and legs ochraceous, lateral 

 margins and apical segment of abdomen castaneous j a cluster 

 of black punctures near anterior cox£e and some silky piceous 

 transverse patches on lateral areas of meso- and metasternum. 

 Antennse ochraceous, second joint a little shorter than third, 

 apical joints sometimes castaneous. 



Long. 5 millim. 



Hab. Ceylon [Green: Brit. Mus. Lewis: Coll. Dist.). 



A short and broad species allied to M. distincta, Dist. 



Men ida pmcila. 



Rhaphigaster pcecilus, DaU. List Hem. i. p. 287. n. 38 (1851); Leth. & 

 Sev. Cat. G^n. H^m. t. i. p. 200 (1893). 



Closely allied to M. lythrodes, Germ. 



Meitida pallipes. 



Rhaphigaster pallipes. DaU. List Hem. i. p. 287. n. 39 (1851); Leth. & 

 Sev. Cat. G^n. H6m. t. i. p. 200 (1893). 



Lethierry and Severin, in their most useful catalogue, 

 remark {Antestia, sec. Distant). Some confusion must have 

 arisen. The Antestia pallipes^ J)ii\\.,-=-Fentatoma jmllipes, 

 Dall. List Hem. i. p. 239. n. 17 (1851). 



