Rhynchota from New Caledonia and the surrounding 



Islands 



by 



W. L. Distant 



(London). 



The name of le Reverend Pere Montrouzier is inseparably connected with the 

 Rhynchota of New Caledonia, for he paid much attention to these insects during his 

 missionary sejourn on that island, and published several papers thereon (1857 — 1865), 

 as well as one on the fauna of Woodlark Island in 1857. The descriptions and generic 

 locations he gave were somewhat primitive, but in 1907, a considerable number of his 

 types came into the possession of Dr. Schouteden, who (Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. 51, 

 pp. 106— 118) gave generic fixations and supplementary specific descriptions of these. 

 Some he evidently did not see, and a considerable number are not contained in the 

 present collection. 



This enumeration of species coUected at New Caledonia and Loyalty Islands by 

 Drs. Sarasin and Roux, and at the New Hebrides by Dr. F. Speiser make a total of 

 sixty species, of which seventeen are de.scribed as new, while three new genera have 

 also been proposed. The most widely distributed species are as follows: 



Piezodonis riibrofasciafus Fabr. — India, Ceylon, Burma, Malay Peninsula and 

 Archipelago, Japan and Australasia. 



Paromiits pallidiis Montr. M — Ceylon, Burma, Japan, and the Seychelle Islands. 



Paiiiera vincfa Say. — S. Africa, Seychelles, India, Ceylon, Burma, Christmas 

 Island, Tahiti, and originally described from North America where it is not uncommon. 



Rhagovelia nigricans Burm. — Mascarene Islands, Seychelles. Ceylon, Syria, 

 Egypt, Abyssinia, West-Indies. 



Telttgo7ua sprcfra Dist. — India, Ceylon, North Australia. 



') This specific name (1865) must now take precedence over P. seychellosits Walk. (1872). 



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