Mr. W. L. Distant on African l*enf:itoiniil;u. SI 



8traniiiieoiis spot, lateral areas darker and more darkly puue- 

 tate ; lej^s l)laek ; margins of head, pronotum, and corium 

 loiifjiy pilose ; head thiekly finely {)unetate ; antenn;e 

 hlaf'k, seeond joint not jjassing apex of head; pronotnm 

 thickly and somewhat finely punctate, with an obscure 

 central longitudinal line, somewhat obscurely transversely 

 dej)ressed near middle ; seutellura thickly and a little more 

 coarsely punctate, with an obscure, somewhat paler, central 

 longitudinal line (in some specimens with the central line 

 and the lateral margins distinctly brownish oehraceous) ; 

 corium thickly punctate ; membrane dark fuliginous or 

 piceous, the veins prominent ; rostrum brownish testaceous, 

 its apex black and reaching the intermediate coxtc; body 

 beneatii more or less finely punctate; posterior tarsi with 

 the basal joint only slightly longer than the following 

 joints together. 



Long. ()-7 mm. 



JIab. Congo Free State ; Katanga, W. of Kambove, 

 Lufira 11. {Neave, Brit. Mus.). 



Genus Pododus. 

 rododus, Amy. & Serv. Hist. Ili^m. p. 101 (1843). 



Type, P. orbicularis, Burm. 



Pododus ovulus. 



Sciocoris ovulus, Dall. List Ilem. i. p. l'.V2 (1861). 



Pododus ovulus, Di3t. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (7) iv. p. 430 (1899). 



Pododus striatus, Uist. Eut. Month. Mag-, xxviii. p. 'IZS (1892). 



Hub. S. Africa. 



AVhen I described P. striatus I had not discovered that 

 the Sciocoris ovulus, Dall., was a Pododus, which I did when 

 rearranging the Brit, Mus. Coll. in 1891) [supra). 



Is the Sciocoris muudus, Germ., a still older name for this 

 species ? 



Dreoea, gen. uov. 



Flatly compressed, somewhat broadly ovate ; head long, a 

 little shorter than pronotum, considerably narrowed to apex, 

 the lateral margins straight to a little in front of eyes and 

 then a little concavely sinuately narrowed to apex, the lateral 

 lobes considerably hniger than the central but not meeting 

 beyond it ; the antenniferous tubercles are remote from the 

 lateral margins of the head and inside longitudinal lines 



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