orientalis (Anasida) Distant 1910: 195–196 . [Figs 138–140]

Original data: “ ♂”; “ ♀ ”; “ Hab. Bombay Province; Dharwar. [...] found by Dr. Harold Mann among stones in a railway cutting.” [syntypes (male and female)]

SYNTYPE ♂: blue-margined syntype disc; red-margined type [H. T.] disc; “Dharwar (Mann)”; “ Anasida orientalis type Dist. [Distant’s handwriting]”; “Distant coll 1911–383.”; “NHMUK 010592344”. Fifth right antennomere missing (Fig. 138).

SYNTYPE ♀: blue-margined syntype disc; “Dharwar (Mann)”; “ Distant coll 1911–383.”; “NHMUK 010592345”. Antennae missing (Fig. 139) .

SYNTYPE ♂:blue-margined syntype disc;“Dharwar(Mann)”;“ Anasida orientalis Dist. [Distant’s handwriting]”; “NHMUK 010592346”. Fourth and fifth right antennomeres, and second to fifth left antennomeres missing (Fig. 140).

Current status: Anasida orientalis Distant, 1910 .

Note: Thomas (1994: 160) stated: “Distant’s male Holotype in BM[NH] was examined.” We know that Distant had at least two specimens as he mentions male and female. The mention of “Distant’s male Holotype in BM[NH]” can therefore not constitute a valid designation of lectotype by inference of “ holotype ” (see ICZN 1999: Art. 74.5). We have found three specimens, 2 males and 1 female; we consider them all syntypes.