so Mr. W. L. Distant on African PentatomidsB. 



punctate, these lateral margins are somewhat rounded and 

 their anterior angles slightly bnt distinctly spined, a central 

 pale longitudinal fasciate line traverses head, pronotum, and 

 8cuicllum, the latter ochraceous, sparingly, coarsely, blackly 

 punctate, more regularly and densely along the lateral 

 margins and on each side of the central pale line, four 

 obscure blackish punctate spots at basal margin and a 

 levigate pale spot near each basal angle ; corium brownish 

 ochraceous, irregularly blackly punctate, the costal area 

 paler and less punctate ; membrane reaching the abdominal 

 apex, pale purplish brown ; connexivum stramineous, with a 

 small black marginal spot at the incisures ; body beneath 

 ochraceous, thickly darkly punctate, broad lateral margin to 

 the prosternum and broad lateral abdominal margin uni- 

 formly pale ochraceous, the latter with a marginal black 

 spot at each incisure, on inner side of the spiracles on each 

 side is a distinctly black longitudinal fascia, and also a 

 central longitudinal fascia of the same colour ; femora 

 ochraceous or brownish ochraceous, tibiae and tarsi black ; 

 rostrum ochraceous, reaching the intermediate coxae. 



Long. 11^ mm. 



Hub. Congo Free State; W. of Kambove, 3jO0 to 4500 

 feet {Neave, Brit. Mus.). 



Genus Tropicorypha. 



Tropicorypha, Mayr, Verh. zool.-bot, Ges. Wien, 18G4, p. 910 ; id. 

 Reise, Novara, Hem. p. 59 (1866). 



Type, T. bifida, Thunb. 



Tropicorypha scoruba. 



Peniato7na scoruha, Dall. List Hem. i. p. 243 (1851). 

 Halyomorpha scoruha, Leth. & Sev. Cat. Gen. Hem. i. p. 118 (1893) ; 

 Kirk. Cat. Hem. (Het.) i. p. 50 (1909). 



Hab. Congo (type in Brit. Mus.). 



Tropicorypha capitata. 



Halyomorpha capitata, Uist. Kat. iu Transv. p. 249, f. iii. f 3 

 (1892). 



Hab. Transvaal. 



Tropicorypha preioriee. 

 Halyomorpha pretorice, Dist. Xat. ill Tiaiisv. p. 250, t. iii. f. 4 (1892). 

 Hab. Transvaal. 



