14 PELOGONIDJ,. 



Champion, who has examined many specimens of Central- 

 American species, states : — " The males have the seventh ventral 

 segment split down the middle, leaving the terminal genital 

 segment exposed, and they are very apt to be mistaken for the 

 opposite sex." 



1483. PelogonilS marginatus, Latr. (Acanthia) Hist. Ins. xii. p. 242 

 (1804) ; id. (Ochtheriis) Gen. Ins. iii, p. 143 (1807) ; Aini/. ^ Sero. 

 (Pelogonus) Hem. p. 409 (1843); Fieb. Eur. Hem. p. 103 

 (1861) ; Sm, Hem. Afr. iii, p. 170 (1865) ; Montand. Ann. 

 Mils. Civ. Gen. xxxvii, p. 365 (1897). 



Pelogonus caffer, Stdl, Ofv. Vet.-Ak. Fork. 1855, p. 46. 



relogonus iudicus, Guer. Rev. Zool. 1843, p. 113. 



Piceous-black ; apical margin of head, 

 basal two joints of antennae, lateral 

 and posterior margins of pronotum (the 

 last variable in width), lateral spots to 

 corium (of which the basal is elongate 

 and the others transverse, sometimes 

 obsolete), anterior margins of the ante- 

 rior acetabula, legs, and sometimes small 

 marginal spots to abdomen beneath, stra- 

 mineous or ochraceous. 



Length 4 to 6 ; breadth 2| to 3| 

 millim. 



Hah. India {fide Guerin). Burma ; 

 Karennee (Fea). — Cochin - China {Coll. 

 ^^S 11- Distant). South Africa. Central Europe. 



Peloffonus marffinaius. rj.^^ specimen figured is a variety from 



Burma, collected by Fea and enumerated by Montandon. 



Subfamily II. MONONYCHIN^. 



Mononychinae, Montand Bull. Sac. Sci. Bucarest, vni, p. 392 (1899). 



Body broadly ovate ; head vertical, triangular ; eyes sub- 

 reniform ; rostrum short, four-jointed ; anterior legs raptorial, 

 their femora inerassate ; tarsi heteromerous, anterior tarsi single- 

 jointed, posterior tarsi with two joints. 



Genus MONONYX. 



Monouyx, La]). Fss. Hem. p. 16 (1832) ; Amy. Sf Serv. Hem. p. 425 

 (1843) ; Fieb. Gen. Hydr. p. 12 (1851) ; Stkl, Hem. Afi: iii. p. 171 

 (1865) ; id. En. Hem. v, p. 138 (1876) ; 3Iontand. Bull. Soc. Sci. 

 Bucarest, viii, p. 394 (1899). 



Type, M. 7-aj)toruis, Fabr., a Neotropical species. 

 Distribution. jVeotropical, Australasian, and Oriental Regions. 



