.4 PPENDIX— RHYNGHOTA 1 1 1 



RHYNCHOTA.' 



By W. L. distant, F.Z.S. 



Suborder HEMIPTERA-HETEROPTERA. 



Fam. PENT A TOMID.-E. 



Subfain. Cydnin.*;. 



1. Gcotomus nvjrocinctus, Sign. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. (1883), p. 40, 8, t. xvii, 

 f. 148. 



Hah. Pacific slopes (below 1400 feet). A single example. This species 

 has only recently been described from a specimen in the Vienna Museum 

 with the habitat " Brazil." 



Sul)fom. PENTATOlIINi-E. 



•2. Thyanta i)enlitor. Cimex perditor, Fabi\, Ent. Syst., iv, p. 102, 90 (1794). 

 Thyanta perditoi; Stal, En. Hem., ii, p. 34, 1 (1872) ; Dist, Biol. 

 Centr. Am. RhyncL, i, p. 66, 1 (1880). 



Hah. Machaclii (9-10,000 feet). A single exauipk-. 



This is not only a variable, but an extremely widely distributed species. 

 Its variable nature has caused it to be described under many different names, 

 all of which will be found in the synonymy of Stal and myself as referred to 

 above. The one specimen collected by Mr. Whymper has the ground colour 

 bright pale olivaceous green, and has the lateral angles of the pronotum 

 spinously produced (this is an inconstant character in the species). It is 

 both a Nearctic and Neotropical .species. In North America it has been 



1 It was found necessary to publish Mr. Distaut's coutributiou to the Supplementary 

 Appendix to Travels amongst the Great Andes of the Eqimtor uijon December 17, 1886, 

 iu advance of the volume. It is stated, however, that this paper contains errors ; and, 

 as it has not been found possible either to obtain corrections of these errors, or the 

 return of the specimens upon which the descriptious were founded, the descriptions are 

 now omitted. — E. W. 



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