RHYNCHOTA. 



By W. L. Distant. 



The 20 species of Rhynchota here enumerated belong to the sub-order Heteroptera. 

 The collection also contained one or two species of small Homoptera belonging to obscure and 

 little worked groups, which it is better to leave for the present, and identify when I have 

 revised and worked up the Families to which they belong in the ensuing volumes devoted 

 to my description of the Rhynchota of British India. 



All the specimens are found in British India and mostly have a wide dispersal in that 

 region. One Serinetha abdominalis Fabr. occurs in the Island of Sokotra : another, Eusarco- 

 coris guttiger Thunb., is not uncommon in China and Japan ; Graptostethus servus Fabr. has an 

 eastern range to China and Australasia, and a western one from the South Palaearctic region 

 to South Africa, a distribution which may probably be equalled by that of the aquatic species 

 Anisops sardea Herr.-Schaeff. As ftxr as this collection allows a conclusion to be formed, the 

 Rhynchotal fauna of these islands consists entirely of migrants fi-om the coasts of India and 

 Ceylon. 



HETEROPTERA. 



Fam. Pentatomidae. 



Subfam. Cydninae. 

 1. Geotoinus pygmaeus. 



Aethus pi/ginaeus Dall. List Hem. i. p. 120 (1851) ; Geotomus pygmaeus Sign. Ann. Soc. 

 Ent. Fr. (G), iii. p. 51, t. 3, f 160 (1883); Dist. Faun. Brit. Ind. Rhynch. I. p. 98, fig. 49 

 (1902); Cydnus rarociliatus Ellenr. Kat. Tijdsclir. Nederl. Ind. xxiv. p. 139, f 7 (1862); 

 Cydnus paUidiconiis Voll. Faun. Ind. Need. Pent. p. 17 (1868); Aethus palliditarsus Scott, 

 Trans. Ent. Soc. 1880, p. 309 ; Geotomus subtristis and jucundus Buch-White, Ann. Mag. Nat. 

 Hist. (4) XX. pp. 110, 111 (1877); Aethus nanulus and platysomoides Walk. Cat. Het. I. pp. 

 162, 163 (1867); Aethus omicron Walk. loc. cit. III. p. 534 (1868). 



Minikoi; Hulule. Generally distributed throughout British India, Malay Peninsula, and 

 Malayan Archipelago. 



G. II. 109 



