346 Mr. G. W. Kirkaldy's Memoir on the 



Dysdercus cingulatus, Fabricius. 



Cimcx cingulatus, Fabr. 1775, Syst. Ent., p. 719. 

 Dysdercus cingulatus, Kirk., J. Bombay Soc, XIV, p. 301, 

 pi. A., figs. 11 and 12 (except some of the synonymy). 



Hah. Birara (Willey). Widely distributed over the 

 Australian and Oriental Regions. 



Dysdercus poecilus, Herr Schaff. 



Pyrrhocoris poecilus, Herr Schaff., 1844, Wanz. Ins., VII, 

 p. 17, fig. 699 ; Breddin, Wien. Ent, Zeit., XX, p. 84^ 



Hab. Birara ( Willey). A very similar distribution to 

 that of cingulatus. 



Genus Ptochiomera, Say. 



Ptochiomera, Say, 1832, Descr. Heteropt. (New Harmony). 

 Plociomera, Leth. and Sev., 1. c, II, p. 194. 

 Distributed over America ; also Japan, etc. 



Ptochiomera kydippe, sp. nov. 



Belongs to Stal's divisions dd. Covered all over, more 

 thickly on head and pronotum, with silvery hair. 



Head, pronotum, scutellum and under-side dull black ; a silvery 

 posterolateral spot on anterior lobe of pronotum. Posterior margin 

 of pronotum narrowly fulvescent. Elytra pale yellowishd;>rown, 

 clouded and punctured with blackisb-brown. Connexivum pallid 

 brown. Membrane fumate, irregularly marked with pallid. First 

 and fourth antennal segments, more or less blackish, 3rd and 4th 

 fulvous. Legs brownish, apical half of femora black. Rostrum 

 fulvous, first and fourth segments darker. Stink orifices black. 

 Head and eyes wider than anterior margin of pronotum. Fourth 

 segment of antennae twice as long as the first, a trifle longer than the 

 second, which is a quarter longer than the third. Pronotum somewhat 

 deeply impressed transversely, anterior area three-fifths longer than the 

 posterior ; lateral margins rounded, lateral margins of posterior area 

 widely divergent roundly, base slightly sinuately emarginate. 



Long, to apes of elytra 5 mm. 



Hab. Lifu (Willey). 

 Genus Pachymerus, Auctt., olim. 

 Pacliymerus, Lep. and Serv., 1895, Encycl., X, p. 322. 

 Aphanus, Leth. and Sev., 1. c, II, p. 215 (nee Laporte). 



Distributed throughout the Old World. 



