86 E. Bergroth: 



jnemhraneus, Montr., as the type of N eager malus, but I think there 

 can be no doubt that the insect described by him under tliat name is 

 quite distinct from Montrouzier's species. Montrouzier says in his 

 description : " dessus du corps brun-fonce ou meme noir," and the 

 length of his species is 5.5 mm., \vhercas all species of GevDmlus are 

 very pale in colour, and the length of the species described as 

 memhraneus by Montandon is 4^. '5 — 5 nun. There is nothing in 

 Montrouzier's sliort description indicating that lie had a (rermaln>i 

 before him, and his species lielougs in all likelihood to the genus 

 Geocoris. Being a nomen false citatum, Montandon's membranenx 

 cannot according to the nomenclatural rules be maintained, and I 

 propose for this species the name (Jermalus montandoni. — Under 

 the specific name dissidens Montandon has described, as question- 

 ably belonging to Germalus, a species with black head, pronotum, 

 and scutellum; but this species differs from Germalus, apart from 

 the colour, by the structure of the metasternal orificia, which is 

 always of great systematic importance and never varia])le to any 

 great extent in the same genus. It clearly lielongs to a distinct 

 genus which may be briefly characterised thus : 



Nesogermahts, n. gen. — Antenniferous tubercles on the outer side 

 armed with a tooth. Metasternal orificia constructed as in Geocoris, 

 subrotundate, callosely margined, not produced in a ridge. Other 

 characters as in Germalus, Stal. — Type : Germalus ! dissidens, 

 Mont. 



25. Stenophyella sabulicola, n. sp. 



Whitish testaceous, head with a l>lack lateral spot behind the 

 eyes, tergum of abdomen with two percurrent black vittae well 

 visible through the pellucid hemelytra but in the dorsal genital seg- 

 ment resolved into small subconfluent V)lack points, mesosternum in 

 the middle with two pale brown vittae and between them with a 

 narrow impressed percurrent median blackish vitta continued, 

 though not impressed, througli the metasternum ; thickly and finely 

 punctured, corium and clavus more coarsely and subseriately punc- 

 tate, abdomen beneath extremely finely, almost imperceptibly punc- 

 tulate, the puncturation concolorous with the following exceptions : 

 a cluster of black points on outer side of antenniferous tubercles 

 and in the middle of the two brownish mesosternal vittae. a longitu- 

 dinal band composed *of black points near anterior half of pronotal 

 lateral margins and somewhat within lateral margins of venter from 

 its base to apical margin of fifth segment. Head slightly shorter 

 than pronotum in the middle, and with the eyes but slightly pronii- 



