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Until we learn whether the name Spudaeus Gistl has a show 
of legitimacy, if ever so little, I think there is no reason to 
abandon the name Spudaeus Dall. (Of the names proposed by 
Gistl in Hemiptera one at most can be used: Eupheno for the 
preoccupied name Macrops Burm. in the Reduviide). 
Paramenestheus nercivus Dall. 
Sciocoris nercivus Dall., placed in our catalogues in the genus 
Menestheus Stal, ought to be transferred to Paramenestheus 
Bredd. It is true that Stal cited nercivus as the type of 
Menestheus, but from the information which Distant in Ann. 
and Mag. of Nat. Hist. (8) VI. p. 469, gives of Dallas’s type 
it is clear that Stal had wrongly identified nercivus, with which 
his description of the head and antennz does not at all agree. 
Menestheus was probably founded on a still undescribed spe- 
cies allied to M. cuneatus Dist. Judging from the description 
it is probable that M. doddi Dist. belongs to neither of these 
genera. 
Turrubulana plana Dist. 
Distant has totally misunderstood the systematic position of 
this insect, placing it in the Halyinae near the African genus 
Atelocera Lap. It pertains to the true Pentatominae and is 
closely allied to the Australian genus Lubentius Stal, from 
which it differs principally by the longer and narrower, later- 
ally bisinuated and apically not rounded head, by the second 
antennal joint not reaching the apex of the head, the longer 
second rostral joint (reaching the middle coxz), the slightly 
elevated, more deeply sinuate apical pronotal margin, the long- 
er frena, and by having the tips of the membranal veins united 
by a more or less continuous transverse vein parallel to the 
margin of the membrane. The membrane is described as 
“black” with “the apex paler,” but it is subhyaline with brown 
veins. It appears to be black on account of the underlying 
black dorsal surface. The ground color of the upper side is 
normally reddish ochraceous. I have another allied new genus 
which will be described in a forthcoming paper on Hemiptera 
from Central- Australia. 
