42 Mr. W. L. Distant on 



the three basal joints black, first ochraceous at base, remaining 

 joints mutilated. Rostrum reaching the third abdominal 

 segment. 



Long. 10 millim. ; lat. 7 millim. 



Ilab. Peru {coll. Dist.). 



Polytes granulatus. 



Spnpht/Ius granulatus, Walk. Cat. Het. iii. p. 516 (18G8). 



I place this species in the genus Polytes, though Stal's 

 diagnosis of that genus is very obscure. In his original 

 description (CEfv. Vet.-Ak. Forh. 1867, p. 492) he gives the 

 type (" Pachycoris hebraicuSj P. B., ad hoc genus est refe- 

 rendus "). But in his subsequent ' Enumeratio Hemipte- 

 rorum,' i. p. 10, he places hehraicus in the genus JDiolcus, 

 Mayr. Both genera stand in his ' Enumeratio,' and no 

 further explanation is given. 



Genus ASCANIUS. 

 Ascamus cassidoides. 



Pachycoris cassidoides, Walk. Cat. Ilet. i. p. 48. n. 16 (1867). 



Genus Achates. 



Achates trinotaius. 



rachjcoris <nnoto^ws, Walk. Cat. Het. i. p. 51. n. 35 (1867), 

 Achates ramosus, Dist. Biol. Centr.-Am., llhvuch.-Het. Siippl. p. 311 

 pi. XXX. lig. 4 (1889). 



Achates vittatus. 



Symjyhylus vittatus. Walk. Cat. Het. i. p. 55. n. 10 (1867). 



Achates leucotelus. 



Pachycoris leucotelus, Walk. Cat. Het. i. p. 62. ii. 36 (1867). 



Achates neotropicalis, sp. n. 



Ochraceous, spotted and striped with castaneous. 



Head sparingly and coarsely punctate ; two castaneous 

 spots at base ; eyes castaneous, apical half of central lobe 

 and the antennje black. Pronotum coarsely and sparingly 

 punctate, with the lateral angles and five central fasciie casta- 

 neous, of which the outermost on each side is bent and does 

 not reach the anterior margin. Scutellum coarsely and 

 sparingly punctate, with two central longitudinal fasciae, on 

 each of which is a broken fascia consisting of three spots and 



