HEMIPTERA i6i 



aplati, legerement carene a I'extremite, qui est tres acuminee. Elytres brunes avec une 

 large bande laterale testacee. Abdomen carene. Pattes jaunes." 



Hab. " Taken by beating dead branches of a species of palm in mountain forests " 

 (F. B. White). Also obtained from Reunion (Signoret) ; Celebes, Bengal, Cuba, St 

 Thomas, Venezuela, etc. 



Subfam. CYMINAE. 

 Sephora gen. nov. 



Very like Cyiiiodciim Spinola, but the antennae have a much longer second segment. 

 From Arplnms Stal it differs by the tylus not exceeding the bucculae. Also very like 

 Cyimis Hahn, but more elongate and the elytra more parallel-sided, the eyes remote 

 from the pronotum, rostrum much shorter, etc. 



Elongate, subparallel-sided ; closely punctured ; vertex a little flatter than in Cynius 

 and the eyes distinctly not nearly touching the anterior margin of the pronotum. 

 Rostrum reaching to the middle of the mesosternum, first segment reaching: to the 

 middle of the prosternum. Anterior lobe of pronotum scarcely carinate. Anterior 

 femora a little more swollen medianly than in Cyunts. 



$. Abdominal segments beneath, parallel ; abdomen apically rounded. 



$. Abdominal segments: fourth segment slightly angularly-emarginate, fifth and 

 sixth apically acutangularly emarginate ; abdomen apically acuminate. (Segments as in 

 Cynnts but proportions slightly different.) Type S. crinigcr. White. 



( I ) Sepkora criniger, F. B. White. 



Cyimis criniger F". B. White, iSSi, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (5) iv. p. 57. 



Plate V. fig. 45. 



The head, the base of the anterior lobe of the pronotum (widely), the anterior part 

 of the scutellum, etc., are black (as described by White), but these parts are so densely 

 and closely covered by the pallid pilosity that they appear — in fresh specimens — to be 

 pale flavescent. 



In one of the specimens (from Lanai) the left antenna is deformed, consisting of 

 two stout, soldered, segments, which are twisted subobliquely. In another specimen, 

 the second segment of the antennae is distinctly longer on the left side than on the 

 right; antennal irregularities are not uncommon in this family'. The average antennal 



' J. W. Douglas has discussed this at some length in the Ent. Monthl. Mag. u. p. 270, in. p. 200, and 

 -xm. p. 1S9. Douglas seems to believe that these malformations are due to reproduction of missing segments 

 in the imaginal instar, destroyed by predaceous Coleoptera, etc. ; but I believe that, in most cases at least, 

 they are due to damage suffered in the ultimate or penultimate nymph-instars. In the same Magazine, 

 F. B. White (xiv. p. 93) and F. Buchan-Hepburn (xiv. p. 256) record similar abnormalities in Cimicidae, 

 Miridae, etc., while scattered details have been noted elsewhere from time to time. 



