32 Mr. W. L. Distant on 



Damelia circuliferus. 



Sphcerocoris circuliferus^ Walk. Cat. Het. i. p. 7. n. 18 (18(57). 

 Australia [DameVs coll.). 



Genus Sph^rocoris. 



Sphcerocoris ocellatus. 



Tetyra ocellata, Klug, Symb. v. pi. xliii. figs. 1-3 (1834). 



This species is generally distributed throughout South and 

 East Africa. The British Museum contains specimens from 

 Angola, from which locality also comes the West-African 

 species 8. annulus. This is the only locality known to the 

 writer in which both species occur. 



Sphcerocoris annulus. 



Cimex annulus, Fabr. Syst. Ent. p. 697 (1775). 



Sphcerocoris annularis, Westw. in Hope, Cat. Hem. i. p. 13 (1837), 



This truly West-African species, like others from the same 

 area, seems gradually spreading eastwards across the con- 

 tinent. In the British Museum is a specimen collected by 

 Mr. Scott Elliot in the district between Salt Lake and 

 Wawamba Country in East Central Africa. 



Sphcerocoris poectlus, Dallas, List Hem. Lis. i. p. 9 (1851). 



This species, originally described from Gambia and re- 

 described by Stal from Nubia, was found by Mr. Scott Elliot 

 in the same district of East Central Africa as S. annulus. 



Genus ASOLENIDIUM. 

 Asolenidium um'color. 



Sjyhceroeoris ? unicolor, Dallas, List Hem. Ins. i. p. 7 (1861). 



Var. Jlavonotatus. 

 Sphcerocoris? Jlavonotatus, Dallas, loc. cit. p. 7. 



Var. olivaceus, nov. 



Above dark uniform olivaceous, beneath piceous ; head 

 beneath, prosternum, and femora dull castaneous; tibiae and 

 tarsi piceous. 



Bab. West Africa, Cameroon Mts. (Brit. Mus.). 



