Distant 1887a: 343–344 Blachia ducalis Walker, 1867 An annotated and illustrated Type Catalogue of the predacious Shieldbugs (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Pentatomidae: Asopinae) in the Collection of the Natural History Museum, London Roell, Talita Lemaître, Valérie A. Webb, Michael D. Campos, Luiz A. Zootaxa 2023 2023-02-03 5232 1 1 105 (Sesha) Distant 1887a: 343-344 Distant 343 - 344 1887 Sesha [151,639,510,537] Insecta Pentatomidae Sesha GBIF Animalia Hemiptera 52 53 Arthropoda species manifesta   Original data: “ Hab. Sikkim(Calc. Mus. and coll.  Dist.).” [ syntypes(two depositories)]   SYNTYPE♂: blue-margined syntype disc; “ Sikkim.”; “ manifesta Dist.[Distant’s handwriting]”; “NHMUK 010592140”. Fourthand fifth right and left antennomeres, left anterior leg, and right posterior leg missing. Thereare two antennomeres and two legs glued on a card pinned below the specimen ( Fig. 101). ?  SYNTYPE♂: blue-margined syntype disc; “ Sikkim”; “Atkinson Coll. 92–6.”; “NHMUK 010592145”. Secondto fifth right and left antennomeres missing ( Fig. 102).   Current status:  Blachia ducalisWalker, 1867(synonymised by Atkinson 1888: 171; see Distant 1902: 247; Schouteden 1907: 29).   Notes: Referring to  Blachia ducalis, Thomas (1994: 167)wrote: “The type series, one maleand three females, were examined in the BM[NH]. Also, from India( 1 female).” It is difficult to understand what he meant as Walker mentioned only one specimen( holotype) for  Blachia ducalisand we have found only one (or two?) male syntype(s) for its synonym,  Sesha manifestaDistant.The specimen from Atkinson’s collection was accessioned in 1892 but was reported by Atkinson (1888); Distant may have used it when he described his species. It may be the one he reported as being in “Calc. Mus.” Indeed, Edwin F. T. Atkinson (1840–1890), “Accountant- General of Bengal and President of the Board of Trustees of the Indian Museum” lived and died in Calcutta ( Walsingham, 1890: lix). The material he collected in Indiais mostly deposited at the Museo Civico di Storia Naturale (MCSN Genova) ( Poggi & Conci, 1996: 11), with the rest of his Hemipteran collection at NHMUK and Dresden ( Horn et al., 1990: 22). 5281716373 [377,1185,547,573] Dist. Sikkim 52 53 1 Sikkim syntype 5281716308 Second 52 53 2 Sikkim syntype