MERRAGATA. 



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Genus MERRAGATA. 



Memiorata, Buch. White. A. M. A". H. (4) x\, p. 1 13 (1877) ; Champ. 



Biol Ccnfr.-Jm., Rhipich. Kem.-llet. ii, p. 121 (1898). 

 Lipogomplius, Berq, Hem. Arcjent. p. i'86 (1879); id. torn. cit. Add. 



S,- Emend. ]>. IKJ (1884). 



Type, M. hebroides, Buch. White, from the Hawaiian Ishiuds. 



Distribution. Oriental and iVeotropical Ivegious ; Hawaiian Iskls. 

 Probably much more widely distributed. 



This genus is closely allied to Hcbrus and is principally to be 

 differentiated by the shorter and four-jointed antennae. Buchanan 

 AVhite described the antennae as tlve-jointed, but this, as Champion 

 has pointed out, was due to " counting the minute jointlet at the 

 base of the third joint as a true joint." Berg described the 

 posterior tarsi as three-jointed, but as Champion also remarks 

 " this cannot be correct." 



2906. Merragata pallescens, Did. A. M. N. H. (8) iii,p.498(1909). 



Head, pronotum, and scutellum pale cinnamon-brown ; corium 

 ochraceous, the claval area milky white, base of costal margin 

 narrowly black ; membrane milky white ; head beneath and sternum 

 pale cinnamon-brown ; abdomen beneath piceous ; legs and rostrum 

 ochraceous ; antennae ochraceous, with fine hairs, third joint a 

 little shorter than second, fourth piceous and about subequal in 



Fig. 71. — Merragata pallesccn.f. 



length to third ; pronotum with the lateral margins strongly 

 sinuate, the lateral angles broadly prominent, the basal margin 

 moderately concave before scutellum ; apex of scutellum broadly 

 subtruucate, very slightly angulate on each side, the disk trans- 

 versely foveately depressed. 



Length 2 millim. 



Ilab. East Bengal ; Eajshai {A)inandale). 



I have only seen a single specimen of this beautiful and 

 distinctly marked species. 



