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fluent blackish punctures ; antennae black, fourth joint with a broad 

 central ochraceous annulation (fifth joint mutilated) ; scutellum with 

 five small ochraceous spots on the basal margin, the apex more sparsely 

 punctate ; membrane dark fuscous, its apical margin somewhat paler ; 

 connexivum dark brownish, coarsely punctate and somewhat obscurely 

 annulated with ochraceous ; body beneath and legs as above ; coxae 

 and bases of the femora obscure ochraceous ; tibiae blackish, with a 

 broad central ochraceous annulation ; rostrum brownish, with the 

 apex piceous. Long. 18 mm. Lat. pronot. angl. 9 mm. 



W. L. Distant. 

 +5. Afrania brachyptera, Schaum. 



Agonoscelis brachyptera, Schaum, Ber. Akad. Berl., 1853, p. 357 ; 

 id. in Peters's Reise Mossamb., Zool. v. p. 37, pi. 2, f. 2 (1862). 



16. Nezara viridula, Linn, et auctt. ; Stal, Enum. Hem., ii. p. 41 



(1872). 



t7. Aspongopus Japetus, Distant, n. sp. 



Ochraceous ; head, antennae, two large transverse spots near 

 anterior margin of pronotum, membrane, connexivum, body, abdomen 

 above, and body beneath and legs black. 



The antennae have the second joint considerably longer than the 

 first and very slightly longer than the second, the fourth longest and 

 distinctly incrassated (fifth mutilated). The body is finely and 

 somewhat obscurely punctate both above and beneath. The femora 

 are not spined, but the tibiae are longitudinally serrate or spinous. 

 Long. 18 mm. Lat. pronot. angl. 10 mm. 



This species is allied to the Indian A. Janus, Fabricius, from which 

 it is superficially discriminated by the unicolorous scutellum, the 

 different colour of the connexivum, etc. W. L. Distant. 



t8. Dalsira asperata, Distant, n. sp. 



Testaceous, very coarsely punctate ; head and anterior third of 

 pronotum ochraceous, the punctures testaceous ; pronotum with two 

 transverse testaceous foveae near anterior margin ; scutellum with 

 three small ochraceous basal spots, two near basal angles and one 

 central ; corium, with basal third of costal margin, claval suture, 

 and a submarginal basal line, ochraceous ; membrane pale fuscous, 

 the apical margin pale hyaline spotted with fuscous. Body beneath 

 testaceous, thickly punctured with fuscous ; margins of the sternum 

 and abdominal spiracles ochraceous, rostrum and legs testaceous, 

 apex of rostrum fuscous. Antennae testaceous, second joint a little 

 longer than first (remainder mutilated). Eyes blackish. 



The pronotum and base of scutellum are rugulose; the pronotum has 

 the lateral angles broadly rounded, the lateral margins nearly straight. 

 Long. 17 mm. Lat. pronot. angl. 10 mm. 



The nearest allied species is D.foveata, Dallas. 



W. L. Distant. 



