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ZOOLOGICAL LITERATURE. 
Teiicrus^ g. n., Sttl, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. v. p. 168. Allied to Eiirhinocoris ; 
thick, tuberculate ; head thick, deflexed, lateral lobes meetihg in front ; buc- 
culae much elevated j posterior angles of thorax slightly prominent posteriorly j 
scutellum large, covering the inner half of the hemelytra, with a large tu- 
bercle; membrane with longitudinal veins; sternum sulcate. Sp. Tarisa 
dromedariiis (Voll.). 
Ilotea acuta, StSl, Hem. Afr. i. p. 55, from Calabar; II. denticulata, Sthl, 
1. c. p. 60, from Madagascar. 
Alphocoris indalus, StSl, 1. c. p. 01, from Cafliaria ; A. crassus, StSl, ibid., 
from Senegal. 
Trigonosoma lehmanni, Fieb. Wien. ent. Mon. viii. p*. 334, Turcomania ; 
T. obemm, Stal, 1. c. p. 84, from Egypt. 
Odontoscelides. 
The following species are figured by Douglas & Scott, Brit. Ilem. i. pi. 2 : 
— Corimelana scarabceoides, fig. 2, and Odontoscelis ftdiyinosus,^i^. 3. 
Eticoria, g. n., Mulsant & Bey, Pun. de France, p. 12. Allied to Coi'ime- 
IcBna (?) ; joint 2 of antennae scarcely one-fifth the length of 3 ; middle lobe 
passing the lateral ones; tibiae not spinous. Sp. E. marginipennis, sp. n.. 
Mills. & Bey, 1. c. p. 13, from Marseilles. 
Plataspides. 
Tarichea, g. n., StSl, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. v. p. 103. Allied to Plataspis ; 
head narrower ; ocelli further from each other than from the eyes ; scutellum 
suddenly enlarged at base. Sp. Plataspis chinensis (Dali.) and P. nitens 
(Dali.). 
Calacta, g. n., StSl, 1. c. p. 163. Allied to Plataspis ; ocelli nearly twice as 
far from each other as from the eyes ; lateral margins of thorax rotundato- 
dilated, anterior angles produced as far as apex of head ; hemelytra with the 
costal margin widely lobate at base. Sp. C. lugubris, sp. n., StSl, 1. c., £i*om 
Hong-Kong ; C. rufo-notata, sp. n., StRl, p. 164, from Siam. 
Poseidon, g. n., Vollenhoven, Tijdschr. voor Entom. 1865, p. 63. Allied to 
Heterocrates, but with the head armed with three horns in the d , semicir- 
cular in $, with lateral lobes meeting; antennae of five joints, first long, 
second minute, third shorter than first, fourth and fifth decreasing ; ocelli 
much nearer to each other than to the eyes. Sp. P. malaganus, V^oll. p. 64, 
from Malacca. 
Coptosoma conspersum, StSl, Hem. Afr. i. p. 12, from Calabar ; C. afzclii, 
StSl, p. 13, from Sierra Leone ; C. pictidum, StSl, p. 14, from Natal ; C. in- 
clusum, St§,l, p. 17, from Calfraria. 
Asopides. 
The following species of this group are figured by Douglas & Scott (7 c.) : 
— Zicrona ccerulea (IJnn.), pi. 3. fig. 3 ; Julia dumosa (Idnn.), fig. 4 ; Ilhaco- 
gnathus punctatus (Linn.), fig. 5 ; Asopus luridus (Fab.), fig. 6 ; and Picromerus 
bidens (Linn.), lig. 7. 
Pentatoma schellembergii (Guer.)=P. consociale (Boisd.), according toSlal, 
and belongs to his genus Alclialia. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. v. p. 164. 
Claudia, g. n., St8,l, Hem, Afr. i. p. 74. Allied to Zicrona ; (ibilomen with 
