THE ANNALS 
MAGAZINE OF NATURAL HISTORY, 
[SEVENTH SERIES.] 
No. 71. NOVEMBER 1903. 
XLVI.—Rhynchotal Notes—XIX. By W. L. Distant. 
Tue following descriptions refer to species recently acquired 
by the British Museum, of which a collection from the 
neighbourhood of the Abutsi River, Nigeria, is the most 
important. 
Examples and types of the newly described species collected 
during the Grant and Forbes expedition to the island of 
Sokotra have now been added to the National Collection, and 
some remarks are submitted on the list already published and 
a fuller and revised enumeration proposed. 
I.—RuyncnHota FROM THE ErHiopiaAn REGION. 
HETEROPTERA. 
Fam. Pentatomide. 
Neodius ethiopicus, sp. u. 
Ochraceous, somewhat thickly fuscously punctate, the 
marginal punctures to basal half of scutellum and to the 
median vein of corium almost constituting linear narrow 
fascie ; fourth and fifth joints of antenne black ; margins of 
body beneath strongly blackly punctate, on abdomen the 
punctures forming two somewhat broad sublateral fasciz ; 
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