Rhynchota collected in New Guinea. 485 
Antenne very narrowly reddish at base, first, second, and fourth 
joints subequal in length, third joint shortest, rostrum long, 
reaching the penultimate segment of the abdomen. 
Var. a. Abdomen beneath without the blackish lateral series of 
spots. Long. 20 to 22 mm. 
This species is arranged in the British Museum 
collection under the above apparently manuscript name. 
Dysdercus simplex, n. 8. 
Head red; eyes, antenne, and a basal spot behind each eye, 
black. Pronotum ochraceous, a transverse spot before anterior 
margin red, narrowly bordered with fuscous, the posterior disk 
sparsely punctured with fuscous. Scutellum black, the apex 
triangularly reddish ochraceous. Corium pale fuscous, the costal 
margin broadly ochraceous, the claval and inner margins very 
narrowly ochraceous. Membrane dark fuscous. Body beneath 
castaneous, margins of prosternum, posterior margins of meso- 
and metasterna, and posterior margins of abdominal segments, 
very pale luteous. Legs and rostrum blackish. Antenne with the 
first and fourth joints longest and subequal in length, second 
longer than third, which is very short. Rostrum passing the 
posterior coxe. Long. 12 mm. 
REDUVIIDA. 
REDUVIINA. 
Helonotus exsugiens. 
Helonotus exsugiens, Stal, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr., ser. 4, 
vol. 8, p. 29, 2 (1868). 
Previously recorded from New Guinea and the neigh- 
bouring islands. 
Paloptus bicolor, n.s. (Pl. XIII, fig. 10). 
Shining blackish ; posterior lobe of the pronotum and the corium 
brownish ochraceous. The head, rostrum, anterior lobe of pro- 
notum, and legs are somewhat very dark castaneous, the scutellum 
and abdomen more bluish black. The lateral margins of the 
anterior lobe of the pronotum are unarmed; the posterior lobe 
possesses two discal, long, suberect spines, the lateral angles are 
also strongly spinous, all the spines subacute, slightly recurved, 
and blackish in hue. The abdomen on each side is angularly 
ampliated. Long. 13 to 14 mm. 
Allied to P. longispinus, Stal. 
