Asoplnie and TessiiratomitiaB. 59 



J^kUsus turln'dtis, 

 Anna turbida, Walk. Cat. lUt. i. p. 140. n, 43 (1867). 



This species is still represented only by the unlocalized 

 type specimen in the British Mu.soutn. It is allioJ to 

 P. fuscescens, Dall, 



liostrum dark castjineous, the second joint black. 



Podisus cy Ulcus. 



Pentatomn ci/iiica, Sav, New Harm. Intl., Dec. 18.31 ; Compl. Writ. i. 



p. 812. n."l (18o9)." 

 Anna ijianiUs, Dall. I^ist Ilem. i. p. 06. u. 3 (1851). 

 Pudisu'x ci/nicug, Leth. & Sov. Cat. G«5n. II^iu. t. i. p. 217 (1893). 

 I'odisHs yrandis, Leih. iS: Sev. he. cit. p. 218. 



Uiiler (Check-list Hem. Het. N. America, 1886, p. -k) 

 correctly sank Dallas's species as a synonym of the above ; 

 but as the authors of our best catalogue have kept them as 

 distinct, it is necessary to again draw attention to their being 

 conspecific. 



Genus Tylospilus. 



TylospUus mecjaspilus. 

 Hoploxys meyaspUus, Walk. Cat. ITet. i. p. 141. u. 2 (1867). 



Genus Anasida. 

 Anast'da funebris, sp. n. 



Pitchy black ; eyes and a spot at base of head ferruginous. 

 Head thickly and finely punctate, with a small impunctate 

 space before each eye ; antcnnje with the second and third 

 joints subequal in len<Tth, remaining joints mutilated. Pro- 

 notum coarsely punctate and rugulose, the sublateral carina 

 near posterior angles very distinct and prominent. Scutellum 

 coarsely punctate and rugulose. Corium more opaque, 

 smooth, somewhat more sparingly punctate. Membrane 

 shining bronzy. 



Long. 16 millim. ; cxp. pronot. angl. 7 millira.; abd. 

 7^ millim. 



Ilab. Natal {Oueinzi'us : Brit. Mus.). 



Allied to the West-African type of the genus, A. tenebrio, 

 Karsch, but differing by the scutellum being more elongate 

 and distinctly and angularly narrowed at about two thirds 

 from base; abdomen narrower, with the connexivura much 

 Ics prominent, vtc. 



