306 Mr. W. L. Distant on Pentatominae. 



Genus Menida. 



.Uenida histn'o. 



Cimcx fiisfn'o, Fabr. Mant. ii. p. 29(5. n. 176 (1787). 

 Rhiiphigiister strachioides, Walk. Cat. Het. ii. p. 365. n. 6.3 (1867). 



}ret}{da apicalis. 



Rhaphiifoster apicalis, Dall. List Iloni. i. p. 28o (1)^51). 



Menida mepaspila. 

 Antestia megaspihi, Walk. Cat. llet. iii. p. 559 (1868). 

 Scutellum very broad — Menida ? 



Menida lahecula, sp. n. 



Ocliraceous, thickly, coarsely, brownly punctate. Head 

 with the lateral and basal margins and the margins of the 

 central lobe piceous. Pronotum with two transverse foveate 

 spots on anterior area. Scutellum with a large discal casta- 

 neous spot near base and two smaller spots of the same colour 

 riear apex, behind which is a smaller linear spot ; apex paler 

 and less punctate. Connexivum ochraceous, spotted witli 

 castaneous. Body beneath and legs ochraceous, lateral 

 margins and apical segment of abdomen castaneous ; a cluster 

 of black punctures near anterior coxas and some silky piceous 

 transverse patches on lateral areas of meso- and metasternum. 

 Antennte ochraceous, second joint a little shorter than third, 

 apical joints sometimes castaneous. 



Long. 5 millim. 



Hah. Ceylon {Green: Brit. Mus. Lewis: Coll. Dist.). 



A short and broad sjjecies allied to M. distincta, Dist. 



Menida poecila. 



Rhaphigaster poecihis, Dall. LL^t Hem. i. p. 287. n. 38 (1851) ; Leth. & 

 .Sev. Cat. G6n. Hem. t. i. p. 200 (1893). 



Closely allied to M. lythodes, Germ. 



Menida pallipes. 



Rhaphigaster pnllipes. DaU. List Hem. i. p. 287. n. 39 (1851); Leth. & 

 Sev. Cat. Gen. H^m. t. i. p. 200 (1893). 



Lethierry and Severin, in their most useful catalogue, 

 remark {Antestia, sec. Distant). Some confusion must have 

 arisen. The Antestia pallipes, UaW. , = Pentatoma pallipes, 

 Dall. List Hem. i. p. 239. n. 17 (1851). 



