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45- Oncocephalus velutinus (Montr.). 

 Sasfrapada vrhitiiin Montr. Ann. Soc. Linn. Lyon (2), XI. p. 239 (1864). 

 Distribution: New Caledonia. 

 Locality: Canala. 



Farn. Notonectidae. 



Subfam. Notoiicctinac. 



Gen. Enithares Spinola. 



Distribution: Ethiopian, Oriental, Australasian and Neotropical regions; also 

 found in China. 



46. Enithares bergrothi Mont. 



Eiiilliarrs lirrgrofhi Montand. Rev. d'Ent. XI. p. 75 (1892I. 



Distribution : New Caledonia. 



Localities: Tchalabel; neighbor. of Cone. 



A set of specimens of this very variably coloured species from the palest tu the 

 most melanic form. 



Gen. Anisops Spinola. 



Distribution: In all the principal zoological regions. 



47. Anisops Hyperion Kirk. 

 ^[iiisops hyprrioii Kirk. Wien. ent. Zeit. XVII, p. 141 (1898). 

 Distribution: New Caledonia. 

 Localities: Neighbor. of Cone; Canala. 



48. Anisops Cleopatra n. sp. (Plate XI. fig. 8). 



Locality: New Caledonia; Neighbor. of Cone. 



Head and pronotum pale greyish-ochraceous; scutellum bright testaceous with 

 three dark castaneous spots, the central spot longest and a smaller one at each basal 

 angle; eyes and hemelytra bright bluish-grey; head beneath, sternum, rostrum, and 

 legs pale ochraceous; abdomen beneath blackish with the margins ochraceous; posterior 

 legs streaked with black; vertex of head, distinctly and strongly narrowed at base, 

 where it is not more than half the width at apex; pronotum with the anterior margin 

 angularly produced between bases of eyes, posterior margin a little concave before 

 scutellum, about as long as vertex; scutellum about or almost two thirds as long as 

 broad at base. 



Long. 5'/-' niill. 



Allied to ^i. assimilis Buch.-White, from New Zealand, but with the vertex 

 much more attenuated at base; colour and markings also difterent. 



