Bhynchota collected in Birara and Lifu. 361 



examples, (a) allied to var. tongtv, Boisduval; bluish, a 

 small median spot on the pronotum anteriorly, a spot near 

 each anterolateral angle of pronotum, anterior margin 

 presternum, base of abdomen and incisures of abdominal 

 sternites (also apparently part of beneath abdominal 

 tergites) sanguineous. (/3) very near typical hanhsii, 

 Montrouzier (which is not var. hanhsii, Donovan, but is 

 near diopkthalmics, Thunberg). Pale luteous above, testa- 

 ceous below ; lateral margins of tylus, vertex behind the 

 eyes, two anterior submedian wedge-shaped spots on 

 pronotum — brownish-black with a suspicion of metallic 

 green. Connexivum (except extero-lateral margin 

 narrowly), antennce, a sublateral spot on each pleuron, 

 apex of femora, the tibiae and tarsi metallic green. 



Hob. Lifu (No. 319, Willcy); extended over the whole 

 of Malaysia from Java eastward, Australia, Polynesia, etc. 

 (Woodlark) ; Isle of Pines, New Caledonia, Art, Isles to 

 the north of New Caledonia, etc., on Hibiscus tillaceus 

 {Montrouzier); "Elle vit a Woodlark en troupes, depose 

 un tres-grand nombre d'eeufs en forme de bardlet, 

 d'abord blancs, et prenant une teinte de plus en plus 

 rougeatre a mesure qu'ils approchent du temps de 

 l'eclosion " (Montrouzier). 



Genus Cantao, Am. Serv. 



Cantao, Amyot and Serville, 1843, Hist. Nat. Hem., p. 29. 



Distributed over the Oriental region up to Formosa and 

 to Australia and Polynesia. 



1. Cantao variabilis, Montrouzier. 



Scutellera variabilis, Montr., 1855, 1. c, (2) VII, p. 93 [not 



(2) I, as in Leth. and Sev. Cat.] 

 Cantao variabilis, Stal, 1873, Svensk. Akad. Handl., p. 10, 



11, No. 2. 



Hob. Birara ( Willcy) ; Moiou {Montrouzier). 



This is a very variable species. 



Montrouzier in speaking of the Scutcllcrinx of Oceania 

 (I, p. 91), says : " Les mceurs de ces Scutelleres sont 

 interessantes. Plusieurs d'elles deposent leurs ceufs sous 

 le revers des feuilles pour les mettre a l'abas de la 

 pluie, les coudrent de leur corps, et quand ils sont eclos, 

 conduisent leurs petits et les protegent jusqu'a ce qu'ils 



