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Genus MORMIDEA. 

 Mormidea punctifer. 



Eysarcoris punctifer, Walk. Cat. Het. ii. p. 274. n. 13 (1867). 



Genus Galedanta. 



Galedanta truncata, sp. n. 



Galedanta myops, Dall. (nee Fabr.) List Hem. i. p. 199 (1851). 

 Galedanta bituhercnlata, Dall. (nee Am. & Serv.) loc. cit. 



Body and legs ocbraceous, thickly and darkly punctate; 

 pronotum with two anterior black discal spots ; a raised 

 black shining tubercular spot in each basal angle of the 

 scutellum. Antennae with the first and second joints pale 

 ocbraceous, speckled with blackish ; third joint piceous, with 

 its base narrowly ocbraceous; remaining joints mutilated. 

 Pronotum with the lateral margins strongly serrate, the 

 lateral angles produced into spatulate processes, somewhat 

 directed upwardly, their apices truncate, rounded anteriorly, 

 bluntly toothed posteriorly. 



Long. 15-18 millim. ; exp. pronot. angl. 11-13 raillim. 



Hah. Brazil. Four specimens (Brit. Mus.). 



At once separable from the other two species of the genus, 

 O. myops, Fabr., and G. hitvhercidata , A. & S., by the 

 broad and apical ly truncate produced lateral angles of the 

 pronotum *. 



Genus EUSCHISTUS. 

 EuscMstus basalts. 



Mormidea basalts, Walk. Cat. Plet. ii. p. 257. n. 28 (1867). 



EuscMstus hrevis. 



Mormidea brevis. Walk. Cat. Het. ii. p. 256. n. 26 (1867). 



EuscMstus crenator. 



Cimex crenator, Fabr. Ent. Syst. iv, p. 101 (1794). 

 EuscMstus contertninus, Walk. Cat. Het. ii. p. 248. n. 38 (1867). 

 Mormidea melanocantha, Walk. loc. cit. iii. p. 552 (1868). 

 Euschistus bifihulus, Uhler (nee Pal. Beauv.), Proc. Zool. Soc. 1893, 

 p. 705. 



* The Museum now possesses the three species of the genus, 

 G, bituberculata agrees better -with Herrich-Schaifer's description of its 

 synonym Brochymcna unicolor than with its dilterential characters given 

 by Stal in his " Hemiptera Fabriciana.'' 



