422 Mr. W. L. Distant on 



Discocephala dephmata. 



Discocephaln deplanata (part., excl. var. /3), Walk. Cat. Het. i. p. 185. 

 n. 21 (1867). 



Discocephala Daagcc^ sp. n. 



Ocliraceons, thickly covered with coarse dark brown punc- 

 tures ; scutellum with the apex pale ochraceous and with a 

 small ochraceous spot in each basal angle ; body beneath and 

 legs ochraceous, thickly brownl}'- punctate, a central sternal 

 spot and a broad central fascia to the abdomen piceous ; 

 stigmatal spots piceous ; femora sparingly punctate, the punc- 

 tures reddish ; antennse ochraceous, the two apical joints 

 wholly brownish. 



The lateral margins of the head are distinctly convexly 

 sinuate a little in front of eyes ; the lateral margins of the 

 pronotum are narrowly ochraceous and impunctatj ; the 

 scutellum is distitictly sinuate at about the centre. 



Long. 6-7 millim. 



Hah. West Indies {sic). Coll. Dist. 



Some twenty years ago I acquired five specimens of this 

 species, for which I could obtain no better locality than 

 " received from the West Indies." It has since remained 

 uiidescribed in my collection, as I hoped to obtain the name 

 of the island where it is found. This still remains an enigma, 

 and I describe the species. The convexly sinuate lateral 

 margins of the head in front of eyes is a prominent character. 



Genus Cataulax. 



Cataulax varicornis. 



Pentatoma vancornis, Walk. Cat. Ilet. ii. p. 291. u. 52 (1807). 

 Cataulax decohratm, Walk, he. cit. iii. p. 564 (1868). 



Genus Dinocoris. 

 Dinocoris guttatopunctaius. 



Edeiisa f/nttaiopvndatu.", Fabr. Svst. Rbyng. p. 152j;i803). 

 Antiteuc/ms? f/n'seui^, Dall. List Ilem. i. p. Ifio. n. 7 (1851). 

 Discocephala signata, Walk. Cat. Het. i. p. 188. n. 27 (1867). 



Dinocoris amplus. 

 Discocephala ampla, Walk. Cat. Het. i. p. 187. n. 26 (1867). 



Braunus, gen. nov. 



Head much longer than broad, in front of eyes three times 

 the length of the anteocular area ; profoundly cmarginate in 



