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ZOOLOGICAL LITEllATUllE. 
Asopides. 
Blachittf g. n., Walker, Oat. Hem. i. p. 117. Allied to Cazira [?] ; ovate, 
convex; head-lobes of equal length ; antennae slender, joints 2-6 slightly in- 
creasing in length ; pronotum with 2 long acute spines ; scutellum broad 
throughout, short ; anterior femora unispinose, tibiu) much dilated. Sp. B. 
ducalis, sp. n., Walk. 1. c, p. 117, Siam. 
Cecyrina, g. n.. Walker, 1. c. p. 118. Allied to Cazira [?] ; body elongate; 
head produced, lobes of equal length ; thorax unarmed ; anterior femora uni- 
spinose and tibiae much dilated. Sp. C. platyrhinoides, sp. n.. Walk. 1. c. 
p. 119, India. 
Bodetria, g. n., Walker, 1. c. p. 119. Body fusiform ; head long, narrow, 
lateral lobes much longer than middle one; joints 2-6 of antennae nearly 
equal; thorax transversely sulcate, with acute spines; scutellum narrow; 
ventral spine not passing hind coxae ; legs robust ; anterior tibiae much di- 
lated. Sp. B. hreiithoideSy sp. n.. Walk. I, c. p. 119, Amazons. 
Gilva, g. n., Walker, 1. c. pp. 141 and 239 (corrected character). Allied to 
Hoploxys ; thorax unarmed ; ventral spine 0 ; antennae slender, joint 4 
longest, 2 compressed, 1 very short. Sp. G. varipes^ sp. n., AValk. /. c. pp. 
142 and 239, Amazons. 
Walker (Cat. Hem. i. pp. 114-146) describes many new species belong- 
ing to the following genera : — Cazira Oplomus 4:, Platynopus 10, Canthe-^ 
corn 1, Glypsics 1, Picromerus 2, A7-ma 9, Iloploxys 1, and Asojnis 1. 
Cydnides. 
The following figures of species of this group are given by Mulsant & Bey 
(Ann. Soc. Linn. Lyon, xiv. pi. 1 ) : — CephalocteuSy hemelytra &c. (fig. 1) ; 
Cydnusjlavicornis, belly (fig. 2) ; C. nigi'ita, fore tibia and head (figs. 3 & 4) ; 
Cydnus, sp., intermediate leg (fig. 6) ; Ge^tomas punctulatus (Costa), fig. 6. 
Walker (Cat. Hem. i. pp. 147-171) describes new species belonging to 
the genera : — Cyrtomenus 1, JEtJms .22, Acatalectua 2, Stiharopus 2, and 
Schirus 2. 
Sciocorides, 
Mulsant & Key (Ann. Soc. Linn. Lyon, xiv. p. 4) divide their Sciocoriens 
(see ‘ Kecord,’ 1866, p. 536) into 2 ‘^rameaux,” namely, the Oploscelates,\i\ih. 
the head semicircular and the tibiae very spinose, and the Sciocoratesy with the 
head subrotundate or ogival and the tibiae with short spines or nearly unarmed. 
The former group includes only the genus Oploscelis (M. & K.), of which 
the type 0. ciliata (M. & K.) is identical with Sciocoris arenicolus (Scholtz), 
and is figured under the first name (/. c. pi. 1. fig. 7) ; and the latter the 2 
genera Sciocot'is and Byrodei'es. 
Sdocot'is. According to Mulsant & Key (/. c.), S. sidcatus (Fieb.)=aw^«5^/- 
peimis (M. & K.) ; S. bremcollis (¥\Qh.')=.imihrmus (Wolff). 
New species : — 
Walker (Cat. Hem. i. pp. 171-192) describes several new species belong- 
ing to the following genera : — Sciocoris 3, Pododus (?) 2, Dictyotus 2, Disco- 
cq)hala 10, Di'yptocephala 1, and Cephaloplatus 1. 
Oploscelis dohmiamiy Mulsant & i^ey, Ann. Soc. Linn. Lyon, xiv. p. 9, 
Sicily. (Forms a subgenus, Oroceplialus, M. & K.) 
