Mr. W. L. Distant on Coreide. Dall 
Mentisa smaragdina. 
Mentisa smaragdina, Walk. loc, cit. n. 1. 
Walker’s type and unique specimen in the British Museum 
is strongly carded, and thus afforded no opportunity for 
examination of the ventral segments. ‘This, in conjunction 
with its distinct coloration, made me strongly doubt it be- 
longing to the Cydnine at all; but Dr. Bergroth now informs 
me that he has received the species from Central Brazil 
and that the arrangement and number of ventral segments 
prove it to belong to that subfamily. I therefore gladly 
locate it in that position on his authority. Walker described 
the antenne as four-jointed, but his specimen is mutilated in 
that respect, and Dr. Bergroth informs me that in normal 
specimens the number of the antennal joints is five. 
PENTATOMINE. 
CROLLIUS, gen. nov. 
Body very much depressed, subovate. Antenne four- 
jointed ; basal joint shortest and stoutest, slightly passing 
the apex of the head, second joint longest; head about as 
long as broad between the inner margins of eyes, the lateral 
lobes sublaminate and reflexed, longer than the central lobe 
and meeting beyond it, their apices rounded but separated ; 
antenniferous tubercles outwardly and prominently spined, 
Pronotum with the anterior and posterior margins concavely 
sinuate, the lateral margins slightly reflexed and sinuate, the 
anterior angles with a small tubercle or spine, the posterior 
angles slightly notched or angulated. Scutellum broad, 
about as long as the corium, its lateral margins sinuate, its 
apex angularly rounded. Membrane short, reaching the apex 
of the abdomen, longitudinally veined. Rostrum about 
reaching the anterior coxee, fourth joint almost equal in length 
to that of third joint. Prosternum strongly sulcated ; meso- 
sternum with a slight central ridge. 
I have placed this genus near Platycoris, Guér., with which 
it has many affinities. 
Crollius conspersus. 
Podops conspersus, Walk. Cat. Het, 1. p. 71. n. 9 (1867) 
Hab. Natal (Gueinzdus, Brit. Mus.) ; British East Africa 
(C. 8. Betton, Brit. Mus.). 
