178 Mr. W. L. Distant on RcduviidiB. 



tuborculatclj elevated; corium pale fuscous brown, lateral 

 margins and subapical area luteous, a distinct brown spot 

 near inner angle; membrane pale dull ochraceous, the 

 marginal areas darker ; connexivum ampliately produced 

 from about centre and lobatelj angulate, transversely dull 

 castaneous at the lobate angles ; abdomen beneath with a 

 distinct central ridge ; rostrum luteous, lateral areas of first 

 joint, apex of second, and the remaining joints dark brown; 

 })rosternum very distinctly longitudinally sulcate. 



Long. 21 millim. 



Brazil: Iguarassee {G. Eamage, Brit. Mus.). 



Genus Oncocephalus. 



Oncocephalus cingalensis. 



Oticocephalus cvujalensis, Walk. Cat. Ilet. \iii. p. 2G. u. IG (1873). 

 Pronotum with two transverse oehraceous S[)ots at base. 

 Uah. Ceylon; Singapore; Borneo: Sandakan (Brit. Alus.). 



Oncocephalus annul i pes. 



07icoccphalus annvUpes, StSl, (Efv. Vet.-Ak. Forli. 1855, p. 44. 1 ; En. 



Hem. iv. p. 88 (1874). 

 Oncocepliahis chu/alensis, Kirbv (nee Walk.), Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool. 



xxiv. p. 117 (1891). 



Stal identified this species, which he described^ from 

 Caffraria, Sierra Leone, Philippines, Australia, and New 

 Caledonia. The Brit. Museum also contains specimens from 

 (Ceylon, Singapore, Java, Borneo, and East Ahica. I took 

 the species in the Transvaal. Some recent writers — lleuter, 

 Lethierry and Severin — have considered it as confined to 

 South Africa ; but this seems clearly erroneous. 



Oncocephalus Uneaius. 

 lieduvius Uneaius, Walk. Cat. Ilet. \ii. p. 200, n. 61 (1873). 



Genus Cantiiesancus. 



Canthesancus gem'culatus^ sp. n. 



Dull brownish oehraceous ; head with a broad centra] 

 fascia and another on each lateral area black, the central 

 fascia attenuated at the area of the eyes and again at base, 

 and more or less margined on each side with reddish oehra- 

 ceous ; antennae black, third joint (excluding apex) oehra- 

 ceous; pronotum with the lateral and posterior margins and a 

 central and anteriorly attenuated fascia on posterior lobe black, 



