42 Mr. W. L. Distant 07i 



the three basal joints black, first ochraceous at base, remaining 

 joints mutilated. Rostrum reaching the third abdominal 

 segment. 



Long. 10 millim.; lat. 7 millim. 



Hab. Peru (coll. Bi'st.}. 



Polytes granulatus. 



Symphylus gramUatus, Walk. Cat, Het. iii. p. 516 (1868). 



I place this species in the genus Polytes , though Stal's 

 diagnosis of that genus is very obscure. In his original 

 description (CEfv. Vet.-Ak. Forh. 1867, p. 492) he gives the 

 type (" Pachycoris hehr'aicus^ P. B., ad hoc genus est refe- 

 rendus "). But in his subsequent ' Enumeratio Hemipte- 

 rorum,' i. p. 10, he places hebraicas in the genus Diolcus, 

 Mayr. Both genera stand in his ' Enumeratio,' and no 

 further explanation is given. 



Genus AscANius. 

 Ascanius cassidoides. 



Pachycoris cassidoides, Walk. Cat. Het. i. p. 48. n. 16 (1867). 



Genus Achates. 



Achates trmotaius. 



I'acht/coris trinotatus,Wa,\k. Cat. Het. i. p. 51. n. 35 ^1867). 

 Achates ramosus, Dist. Biol. Centr.-Am., Rhynch.-Het. Suppl. p. 311, 

 pi. XXX. tig. 4 (1889). 



Achates vittatus. 



Sym2)hyhis vittatvs, Walk. Cat. Het. i. p. 55. n. 10 (1867). 



Achates leucotelus. 



Pachycoris leucotelus, Walk. Cat. Het. i. p. 52. n. 36 (1867). 



Achates neotropicalis, sp. n. 



Ochraceous, spotted and striped with castaneous. 



Head sparingly and coarsely punctate ; two castaneous 

 spots at base ; eyes castaneous, apical half of central lobe 

 and the antennee black. Pronotum coarsely and sparingly 

 punctate, with the lateral angles and five central fascise casta- 

 neous, of which the outermost on each side is bent and does 

 not reach the anterior margin. Scutellum coarsely and 

 sparingly punctate, ^Yith two central longitudinal fascias, on 

 each of which is a broken fascia consisting of three spots and 



