440 Mr. W. L. Distant on 



The pronotum is sliglitly transversely ridged between the 

 posterior angles, which are subprimiinent ; the corium is 

 visible for a little more than half the length of the scutellum. 



Long. 4-4^ millim. 



Hab. Ceylon {G. Lewis). Coll. Dlst. 



Genus Aspavia. 



Aspavia injictta. 



Mormidea inficita, Walk. Cat. Het. ii. p. 260. n. 50 (1867). 



Aspavia Jiastator. 



Coreus hastator, Fabr. Eut. Syst. iv. p. 129. ii. 8 (1794). 

 Mormidea? ventralis, Walk. Cat. Het. ii. p. 260. n. 51 (1867). 



This is quite distinct, and not even congeneric with the 

 species described by Walker (Cat. Het. iii. p. 555, 1868) from 

 Australia under the same name, and which belongs to the 

 genus Dictyotus, 



Genus Carbula. 

 CarhuJa lateralis. 

 Mormidea lateralis, Walk. Cat. Het. ii. p. 263. u. 61 (1867). 



Carbula socia. 



Mormidea socia. Walk. Cat. Het. ii. p. 262. n. 60 (1867). 

 Mormidea similis, Kirby, Journ. Liuii. Soc, Zool. xxiv. p. 82 (1892). 



Mr. Kirby described a fresh specimen ; Walker's type is 

 founded on a faded example. 



Carbula contigua. 

 Mormidea contiffua, Walk. Cat. Het. ii. p. 264. n. 63 (1867). 



Carbula crassiventris. 



Pentatoma crassive7itre, Dall, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. v. p. 189 (1849). 



The type is from Boutan. The British Museum also 

 possesses specimens from the island of Loo-Chow. 



Genus Gyenica. 



Oyenica rustica, sp. n. 

 Dark ochraceous brown ; pronotum with the lateral spines 



