ATA Mr. W. L. Distant on Rhynchota 
Long. 7 millim. 
Fernando Po (Brit. Mus.). 
This species is, so far as known at present, unique in 
having the eyes meeting on upper surface of head. 
Synonymicau Nore. 
Dr. Bergroth (Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. 1903, p. 297) has 
referred to four species of Tingidide from South Africa 
which I recently described under the genus Phatnoma, and 
states that three of these belong to the allied genus Gony- 
centrum (Telia, Fieb., nom. preoce.). He also writes: ‘ La 
structure du pronotum est la seule différence valable entre 
ces deux genres.” In these statements I do not think the 
writer has shown his usual acumen.. The structure of the 
pronotum is not the only good dividing character between 
these two genera; the transverse raised lines to the discoidal 
and subcostal areas of the elytra constitute a distinct character 
of Phatnoma, not found in Gonycentrum, besides which the 
structure of the head in both genera, as shown by Fieber’s 
excellent figures, is another point of division. 
The three species I have described and figured under the 
genus Phatnoma cannot therefore be placed in Gonycentrum, 
as Dr. Bergroth definitely states, and if they are to be sepa- 
rated from the first-named it must be by the construction of 
anew genus. To separate species from a genus to which 
they have most affinity and place them in another to which 
they do not belong tends rather to obscurantism than to 
correction. 
IJ].—RuyncHorTa FROM THE ORIENTAL REGION AND CHINA. 
HETEROPTERA. 
Fam. Pentatomidz. 
g Sepontia formosa, sp. 0. 
Head black, coarsely and thickly punctate; pronotum 
ochraceous, basal area from between the lateral angles and a 
large spot on each side of anterior margin black, the basal 
area strongly and coarsely punctured, some scattered black 
punctures on each central lateral area and at centre of ante- 
rior area, the lateral margins levigate; scutellum black, 
thickly and coarsely punctate, with two very large transverse 
luteous levigate spots near anterior margin; corium black, 
thickly and coarsely punctate, ochraceous at base ; body 
