XI. RHYNCHOTA MALAY ANA. 



PART II. 



By W, L. Distant. ' 



The present contribution again largely refers to the Rhynchota 

 of Borneo. The collections made by Wallace in his memorable 

 Malayan expedition contained much Bornean horaopterous 

 material which was worked out by Walker, but this was evidently 

 only a sample of the rich Rhynchotal fauna of that island. The 

 Homoptera of the Dutch islands are still practically unknown. 

 Bierman . commenced the study of the Javan insects and might 

 have adequately undertaken those of Celebes, but we have, un- 

 fortunately, to deplore his early decease. The Malay Peninsula 

 is still somewhat unworked ground as regards the Homoptera. 

 Annandale and Robinson have lifted the veil from the Siamese 

 Malay States, but we cannot expect the same enthusiasm to be 

 displayed by residents in the collection of Rhynchota as I still 

 gratefull}^ remember was the case with butterflies when I prepared 

 my '' Rhopalocera Malayana." As regards the Philippines, of 

 course, Stal's " Hemiptera insularum Philippinarum " is an object- 

 lesson to other workers. 



Sub-order HETEROPTERA. 

 Fam. PENTATOMID^.. 

 Sub-fam. Tcssaratominae. 



Genus Tessaratoma. 



Tessaratoma, Lep, and Serv., Encycl. Meth., x, p. 590 (1825). 

 Type T. papulosa, Drury. 



Tessaratoma kinta, sp. nov. (PI. x, figs. 8, 8a, 8b.) 



Head, pronotum and scutellum stramineous; lateral margins 

 of head and apex of scutellum black ; abdomen above black ; body 

 beneath stramineous; head beneath, rostrum, disk of prosternum, 

 margins (more or less contentious) of meso- and metasterna, legs, 

 and three longitudinal series of transverse segmental spots (one 

 largest and central and one on each lateral margin) black ; corium 

 stramineous; membrane very pale stramineous; wings piceous- 

 black, the costal and basal areas pale ochraceous ; antennae black, 

 second and third joints subequal in length (remainder mutilated 

 in all the specimens now before me) ; rostrum passing the anterior 



