14 E. Be.rgroth: 



aiul the two t'xterior ones of the three Himihir claval lines placed 

 extremely close to each other both on the corium and on the clavus, 

 all these five lines composed of very small points; membrane varie- 

 gated with whitish and fuscous, the veins pale. Body beneath 

 piceous, almost impunctate, acetabula pale ferruginous. Legs 

 stramineous, all coxae and the fore femora pale ferruginous, the 

 latter with a spine a little in front of the middle and a row of very 

 small teeth between the spine and the apex, fore tibiae almost 

 straight. Length, ? 3 mm. 



Victoria. 



This fine little species is somewhat similar to the Mediterranean 

 T. nervosus, Fieb. , but the posterior pronotal lobe is more marked 

 with fuscous vittae, the antennae are differently coloured, etc. 



The genus Taphropeltus, Stal, was hitherto known only from the 

 western Palearctic region, but seems to be widely dispersed in the 

 Old World. I have an undescribed Taiihropeltus from Java, and 

 Scolojiostethus putoni, B. White, from New Zealand, probably 

 belongs here, as Buchanan White compares it with Sc. contractus, 

 H. Sch., which is a Taphropeltus. 



Myooara, n. gen. 

 Body elongately ovate. Head a little shorter than pronotum. 

 slightly broader than the pronotal apical collar, but a little nar- 

 rower than the pronotum just behind the collar, immersed almost to 

 the eyes, Tinpunctate, distinctly longer than broad, the anteocular 

 part also longer than broad, triangularly produced in front of the 

 antennae, acute at apex, clypeus scarcely longer than juga, the 

 sj^ace between eyes and base of antennae shorter than an eye, the 

 small ocelli almost contiguous to the eyes, throat horizontal, bucculae 

 very short, semicircular, antennae rather long and slender, first 

 joint passing apex of head by half its length, second twice as long 

 as first, third somewhat shorter than second and a little longer than 

 fourth, which is not thicker than the others, rostrum reaching far 

 beyond base of venter, first joint as long as first antennal joint, l>ut 

 not reaching base of head. Pronotum (in the brachypterous form) 

 but a little broader than long, at the base almost twice broader than 

 head, gradually a little narrowing from the base to near apex, 

 where it is rather strongly roundedly narrowed to the depressed 

 ■collar which is separated from the impunctate anterior pronotal 

 lobe by an impressed punctate line, the lateral margins narrowly 

 •depressed, not sinuate, apical and basal margins straight, the some- 

 what convex anterior lobe twice as long as the thickly punctate 



