232 Mr. W. L. Distant on Dinidorinae, 



Elasmostethus Lewisi, sp. n. 



Ochraceous ; pronotum, scutellum, and coriura coarsely 

 and darkly punctate ; scutellum with a central cordate levi- 

 gate spot surrounded by castaneous shading, in which is a 

 short central dark lineate spot above and beneath ; extreme 

 a))ices of pronotal angles, apical margins or only angles of 

 coriuni, a small spot at base of membrane, and the apical 

 abdominal segmental angle black ; abdomen above reddish, 

 with its lateral margins ochraceous ; membrane hyaline, 

 slightly brownish on inner and outer margins. 



Antennse ochraceous, second joint distinctly longer than 

 the third, apical joint somewhat int'uscated ; head transversely 

 wrinkled ; pronotum with two transverse levigate callosities 

 on anterior area ; corium with the whole marginal area very 

 finely and concolorously punctate. 



Long. 8 millim. ; exp. pronot. angl. 4^ millim. 



Hab. Ceylon ; Punduloya (Atkins. Coll., Brit. Mus. ; 

 G. Lewis, CoW. Dist.); Nilgiri Hills; Utakamand (Brit. 

 Mus.). 



Elasmostethus delicatulus. 



Acanthosoma delicatula, Walk. Cat. llet. ii. p. 397. n. 24 (1867). 

 Monnidea erythronpila, Walk. loc. cit. iii. p. 5jo (18(38), 



Elasmostethus lineus. 

 Acanthosoma linea, Dall. List Hem. i. p. 308. n. 15 (1851). 



Elasmostethus emeritus. 



Cimex emeritus, Fabr. Syst. l-ut. p. 705 (1775). 

 In Banksian Coll. (Brit. Mus.). 



Summarized Disposition of Walker^s Genera and Species. 



Dinidorinae, Phyllocephalinse^ Urolabidinae, and 

 Acanthosominse. 



Genera considered valid. 



Enada, Walk. Cat. Het.iii. p. 485 (1868) {Tessaratomina). 

 Thcdma, Walk, loc. cit. p. 503. 

 Urusa, Walk. loc. cit. p. 504. 



Genera treated as synonymic. 



Erya, Walk. Cat. llet. iii. p. 485 (1868), = Gen. Axona, StSl. 

 T'cia, Walk. loc. cit. ii. p. 407 (18G7), =Geii. Pnna-tius, StSl. 

 Ehora, Walk. loc. cit. iii. p, 415 (1868), =Geu. Notim, Dall, {I'entato- 



[mince. 

 Bessida, Walk. loc. cit. p, 577, =Gen, Gonopsis, Amy. & Serv. 



