Mr. W. L. Distant on African PentatoiniLl;e. 90 



aiitci'iorarca more or less ochraocous, the i)ostcrior area pale 

 castaiicons brown, tlie first sparsely darkly punctate, the 

 latter more thickly punctate, a series of black punctures 

 before the anterior margin, the cicatrices levigate and dull 

 grcvish ; scutelluni ochraceous, with a ])ale levigate spot at 

 eacli basal angle and with castaneous punctures on basal area, 

 a little ijchind middle a transverse jiosteriorly angulate casta- 

 neous fascia, the apical area punctured with castaneous ; 

 corium castaneous brown, with a large black spot a little 

 before middle; membrane blackish; body beneath ochra- 

 ceous, thickly castaneously punctate (imperfectly seen in 

 carded typical specimen) ; antennte pale castaneous brown, 

 second joint a little shorter than third, fourth and fifth 

 longest and subcqual in length; scutellum almost impunc- 

 tate on anterior disk ; corium thickly finely punctate ; mem- 

 brane scarcely passing abdominal apex. 



Long. 7^ mm. ; exp. pronot. angl. 5 mm. 



Hah. Congo. 



Differs from both E. siynoreti, Stal, and E. mashona^ 

 Dist., by the shorter and broader structure, the distinct 

 punctures on the anterior area of the pronotura, the angulate 

 fascia to the scutellum, the blackish membrane, the non- 

 sinuate margins of the scutellum, &e. 



Genus Axasida. 

 Amisida, Karsch, Berl. ent. Zeitschr. xxxvii. p. 481 (18'J2). 

 Type, A. tenebrio, Karsch. 



Anasida funehris. 



Anasida funebris, Dist. Ann. & Maj?. Nat. Hist. (7) vi. p. 59 (1900). 

 Anasida tembrio, ScLout. (part.) llhynch. ^Ethiop. i. fa^c. 2, p. 191 

 (190o) ; id. in Wysm. Gen. Insect, fasc. 52, Asopinae, p. 53 (1907). 



!My friend Dr. Schoutcden has fallen into error with the 

 above species. A. funebris is an altogether narrower and 

 more slender species than that figured by Karsch, and both 

 again arc distinct from the figure given by Schoutcden as 

 A. tcnebrio {supra, pi. iii. fig. 12), which has the apex of the 

 >cutelhuu narrow and pointed, and not broad and more or 

 less truncate, as in A. tenebrio, Karsch, and A. funebris, Dist. 

 For the species represented by Schouteden's figure I propose 

 ihe name of A.? schouiedeni. 



A. funebris I only know from Natal (Brit. Mus. and S. Afr. 

 Mus.). A. tenebrio was deserd)ed from W. Africa; ]\Ialange 

 (Berlin Mus,). A. ? srhuutedeni is from the Congo. 

 [To be coutinut'd.] 



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