HEMIPTERA 139 



Division Halt/car /a Kirk. 



( = Laboparia Reut.) 



Nesidiorchestes gen. nov. 



Closely allied to Haliiais. Hahn, but differs by first segment of antennae reaching 

 beyond middle of clypeus, rostrum reaching beyond posterior co.xae, the stouter 

 antennae etc. 



Head (with eyes) wider than long, a little wider than pronotum anteriorly ; vertex 

 convex, not longitudinally sulcate, produced subangularly rotundately in front ot the 

 eyes, impressed transversely in front of the marginate base which slightly covers the 

 anterior margin of the pronotum. First segment of antennae stout, reaching almost to 

 apex of clypeus. Rostrum reaching beyond apex of posterior coxae. Pronotum trans- 

 verse. Clavus, cuneus and membrane not (or only very obsoletely) marked off from 

 corium, e.xcept the cuneal fracture which is very deep. Elytra apically sinuately 

 truncate, not reaching nearly to apex of abdomen. Posterior femora enormously in- 

 crassate, tibiae long and slender ; third segment of posterior tarsi the longest, second 

 the shortest. 



Only the brachypterous form has been taken. 



( I ) N'csidioirhesh's haivaiiensis, sp. nov. 



Plate IV. figs. 15 and 16. 



Head above, pronotum, scutellum and elytra flavofuscous or fulvoflavous — pale or 

 dark ; the markings darker and somewhat variable, viz. : an oblique subcrescentiform spot 

 on each side of the middle of the vertex, several marks on pronotum and scutellum ; 

 three radiating lines (which are more or less interrupted and nebulose, especially 

 apically) on elytra arising near the e.Kterobasal angle and reaching the apical margin, 

 viz. : one sublateral, one marking the obsolete claval suture, and one between the other 

 two. Rostrum brownish ; first two segments of the antennae testaceous, third blackish. 

 Eyes blackish-brown. Abdomen above basally sordid testaceous, apically concolorous 

 with the rest of the upper surface. Beneath and the legs dull violet-black ; coxae, apex 

 of femora, the tibiae and tarsi testaceous. Above and beneath covered with very short 

 and fine pallid hairs, head apically furnished with short black bristly hairs. Tibiae 

 with black bristles. Head (with eyes) twice as wide as its length (viewed dorsally), 

 a little wider than pronotum apically, a little narrower than the latter basally ; head 

 (seen from above) a little more than three times as long in the middle as one eye. 

 Vertex 2\ times as wide as one eye, two-sevenths wider than the two eyes together. 

 Base of clypeus about on a level with the anterior margin of the eyes. Eyes a little 

 incumbent on the pronotum. First segment of antennae three times as long as wide. 



