58 Mr. W. L. Distant on 



Platynopus Icttus. 



Platyytopm l<etus, Walk. Cut. Het. i. p. 127. n. 19 (1867). 



riaiyuopug dotntus, Walk. he. cit. p. 128. n. 20. 



Platiinopu.t semiscitus, Walk. he. eit. p. 129. n. 21. 



Canihecona decorata, \o\\. Faun. Ind. Neerl. iii. p. 9, pi. ii. fig. 2 (1868). 



Platynopus tnelacanfhus. 



Peiitatoma melacantha, Boisd. Voy. Astrol., Ent. p. 628, pi. ii. fig. 7 



(1835). 

 Platynopus tenellus, Walk. Cat. Het. i. p. 127. n. 18 (1867). 



Platynopus .fplendi'dulus. 



Cimex splendidulw, Fabr. Syst. Rhyng. p. 163. n. 40 (1803). 

 Platyfiopiis splendiduli/s, StSl, Hem. Fabr. i. p. 16. n. 1 (1868). 

 Oploimis elonyatus, Dall. Trans. Ent. Soc. Loud. 1852, p. 6, pi. i. fig. 1. 



Dallas gave the habitat of his species as " in Brasilia?" 

 Specimens exactly agreeing with iiis description, which repre- 

 sents the form described by Fallou as P. vietalUcus (Rev. 

 d'Ent. X. p. 5, 1891), are in the British Museum from Sierra 

 Leone and in my own collection from West Africa and the 

 banks of the River Aruwini (Central Africa). 



Genus Canthecona. 



Canthecona cognata. 



Cantheeona cognata, Dist. Ent. Month. Mag. xix. p. 157 (1882). 

 Canthecona inmlaris, Kirbv, Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool. xxiv. p. 79, 

 pi. iv. tig. 4 (1891). 



Genus PiCROMERUS. 



Picromerus obtusus. 



Picromerus obtusus, Walk. Cat. Het. i. p. 133. n. 6 (1867). 

 Picromerus nigrivitta, Walk. he. cit. n. 7. 



Genus PoDisus. 



Podisus modestus. 



Artna modesta, Dall. List Hem. i. p. 101. n. 13 (1851). 

 Phaphigaster aggressor, Walk. Cat. Het. ii. p. 359. n. 19 (1867). 



Podisus semialhatus. 

 Mormidea semialia. Walk. Cat. Het. iii. p. 553 (1868). 

 A species allied to P. falcatus, Dist. 



