Bhynchota collected in Birara and Lifu. 351 



RlPTORTUS IMPERIALIS, sp. II. 

 Allied to B. rdbustus, Dallas. 



Head, beneath, juga, base of vertex, pronotum, scutellum, extreme 

 base of elytra, first, second and apical two-thirds of 3rd segment of 

 antennae, rostrum, sterna and pleura (except as below), coxae, 

 trochanters, and posterior femora, a broad median longitudinal 

 black hand on abdomen below, spots on the apical segments of con- 

 nexivum above, etc., black or blackish-brown, the posterior femora 

 beneath very polished. Tylus, base of third antennal segment, 

 abdomen above, and laterally below, a broad almost continuous, very 

 smooth, stripe from apex of head to base of metanotum, reddish. 

 Apical segment of antennae, anterior and intermediate tibia?, and all 

 the tarsi, a somewhat indefinite pale ochreous. Posterior tibiae 

 blackish laterally, reddish above and below. Elytra pale ochreo- 

 fulvous, membrane yellowish-brown hyaline. Pronotal spines, 

 acuminate, prominent ; pronotum minutely granulate with black. 

 Rostrum reaching to nearly base, fine at sternum. Posterior femora 

 with three or four larger spines and a number of smaller ones. 

 Fourth antennal longer than the first and second together, second 

 and third subequal. 



Long. Vlh mm., lat. 4 mm. 



Hah. Birara {Willey). 



(?) RlPTORTUS ATRICORNIS, Stal. 



Biptortus atricomis, Stal, 1873, Sv. Vet. Ak Handl., 11, 

 No. 2, p. 94. 



A specimen from Lifu {Willey) is placed here with 

 some little diffidence. B. atricomis was described from 

 Australia and Java. 



Genus Cletus, Stal. 



Cletus, Stal, Eugenies Resa, Hem., p. 236. 

 Beniseomus, Spinola, in Signoret, 1861, Ann. Soc. Ent. 

 France, 4, 1, p. 66 [nov. syn.]. 



Distributed over Oriental, Ethiopian, and Australian 

 regions, also from North America. 



Cletus amyoti, Montrouzier. 



Gonoccrus amyoti, Montr., 1861, 1. c, p. 66. 

 Hob. Lifu (Montrouzier and Willey), 



