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triradiate impuiictate elevation. Breast finely and rather thickly 

 punctate with blackish on the propleurae, Avith pale brownish on 

 tiie meso- and nietapleurae. Henielytra (cT) reaching a little beyond 

 apex of abdomen, coriuni witli tlnee percurrent rows of very small 

 tliick-set brown punctures, first row in its basal third running near 

 the costal margin, then gradually somew^hat deviating from it, 

 second row placed in the middle, third near the claval suture and 

 continued from its apex along apical margin of corium to apex of 

 first row, cluvus parallel in its basal third, then a little widening 

 toward the connuissure which is a little longer than half the length 

 of the scutellum, with two rows of punctures similar to those of 

 the corium, one along basal half of outer margin, the other along 

 the commissure and continued a little way along the inner margin, 

 basal part of clavus moreover Avith some extremely fine almost 

 colourless punctures partly forming a row, corium and clavus for 

 the rest impuiictate. Abdomen impunctate, third, fourth, and fifth 

 connexival segments partially exposed, extending a little beyond the 

 co.stal margin of the closed hemelytra ; male genital segn)ent semi- 

 circular, beneath Avith a small round pit a little before apex. 

 Length, 3' 4.7 mrn., inch membrane, 5 mm. 



Steven.son River. 



Allied to G. roseohistrinfini. Kirk, (by its describer Avrongly re- 

 ferred to the genus Geocoris). but with the head broader as com- 

 pared to the pronotum, different colouring of the head, scutellum, 

 and abdomen, etc. 



N.B. — Montandon has separated from Gertnolus a species from 

 Xew Caledonia as belonging to a distinct genus, Neogermahis. 

 The only difference is that in yeogerinalus the ocular peduncle has 

 the anterior margin shorter and the posterior margin more ap- 

 proaching or even contiguous to the latero-anterior margin of the 

 pronotum, and that the eyes thei'efore are more oblique. The 

 length and direction of the ocular peduncle are, hoAA-ever, very 

 inconstant in the genus Gernialiis, and some of its described species 

 certainly form distinct and gradual transitions from species Avith 

 longer ocular peduncle directed a little forAvards to such Avith 

 shorter peduncle directed more or less backwards. In my opinion 

 generic characters cannot, either in Germalas or in Geocoris, be 

 taken from the shape and direction of the ocular peduncles. The 

 more new species are detected, the more numerous the transitions 

 l)ecome. The same is true of the size of the scutellum. It therefore 

 seems to me that Neoc/ermaliisi cannot be ranked as even subgeneri- 

 cally distinct from Germain fi. Montandon holds Ophthalmicus 



