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A LIST OF THE HEMIPTRRA OF ORlEiNTAL CHINA 



by ii'W. Hirkaldy 



PART I 



Oriental (.;hina may be (leHned roughly as the coLinlry soulh of 

 tlie Yaiig-tsz'-kiang as far eastwards as Kieu-kiaiig, contiiuiing 

 tlience in a sLraight Une to near Ning-po, so as to include Ghu-san. 

 H incliidesalso the islands of Hai-nan, Tai-wan (or Formosa), Hong- 

 Kong and Macao. North of thèse hmits, and indeed south in parts, 

 tliere is a sort of « debatable land » where palœarctic and oriental 

 forms strive for the supremacy. 



Tlie présent hst is based on a séries of Ilemiptera sent me liy 

 Mr. J.-C.-W. Kehshaw (late of Macao), principally collected at Hau- 

 \\k (or How lik) and Macao, as well as on the coast opposite the 

 latter ; also on small collections made by my colleagues Mr. F. Muir, 

 pi'incipally at Lo-fou-shan and Macao, and Mr. F.-W. Terry at 

 Hong-Kong. I hâve also added a séries from Yun-nan sent me by 

 Mr. MoNTANDON. A few species from « China » hâve been included, 

 when it is practically certain that they must inhabit the Southern 

 parts. 



Compared with other parts of the same subregion, the launa 

 must be considered as distinctly poor, a fact doubtless due to the 

 immémorial close cultivation in lowland China, only dominant 

 species, as a rule, finding survival possible. In the remuants of 

 aboriginal forest at Lo-fou-shan and Hau-lik, conditions are more 

 favourable. 



The foUowing topographical notes on the Kwang-tung coast liave 

 been written for this paper by Mr. Kershaw : 



« The conntry adjacent to Hong-Kong and Macao is largely com- 

 posed of hills of grey granité, lying in confused masses, and valleys 

 therein eut ont by the torrential rains of summer rushing down the 

 bare and treeless slopes, often not covered even with grass, for the 

 natives eut and rake away grass and brushwood for fodder and fuel. 

 The rest of the conntry near the coast is alluvial p.lain, the deposit 

 of the West River, chietly made up of rice fields, market gardens 

 and mudtlats. Rice tields extend far up the valleys in the hills, in 

 terraces, and higher still any small pièce of level ground which can 

 bc irrigated by a runnel is cnltivated as a vegetable garden. Sweet 

 potatoes and ground-nuts are the chief crops aller rice, scai-cely an^ 

 sugar-cane being grown in this district. There is no virgin fores 



