On Rhynchota from the Aru Islands, 389 



LIV. — Rhynchota from the Aru Islands. 

 By W. L. Distant. 



Mr. W. AV. Feoggatt has recently sent me a small collection 

 of Rhynchota made at the Am Islands. The British Museum 

 is rich in specimens from these islands, collected by Dr. A. R. 

 Wallace, and described by Walker, Stal, and some by myself. 

 The following is a list of the species obtained through 

 Mr. Froggatt, all of which arenowin theNatioual Collection: — 



Hetkroptera. 



Catacanthus sumptuo-ms, Dohrn. I Mictis aruana, sp. n. 

 Lyramorpha diluta, Stal. | 



HOJIOPTERA. 



Platy pleura canescens, ^^'alk. 

 Saiodafroygatti, sp. u. 

 Diceropyya obtecta, Fabr. 

 Bceturia exhausta, Guer. 

 Aphcena reverso, Walk. 

 Paricana currifera, Dist. 

 Iticajiia caliginosa, Walk. 

 luridu, Walk. 



Ricania trimacida, Guer. 

 Ewiccmia concinna, Stal. 

 Colgar p'Tucuta, Walk. 

 Phymoides rubroinacidatus, Dist. 

 Neocromna histriijuttata, Stal. 

 Clovia suhjimcta, Walk. 

 Cosmoscarta urvillei, St. Farg, 

 TartessHS sp. 



Grenns MiCTiS. 

 Mictis, Leacla, Zool. Misc. i. p. 92 (1814). 



Type, M. prrfana, Fabr. 



Mictis aruana, sp. n. 



Head blacli, sparingly greyishly pilose ; pronotum, scu- 

 tellum, corium, and sternum thickly, shortly, greyishly 

 pilose; membrane dark shining olivaceous; lateral margins 

 of pronotum (not reaching apex), base of lateral margins to 

 corium, and lateral margins of first and second abdominal 

 segments ochraceous ; three large carmine-red spots on each 

 side of sternum, one on each segment. 



cJ . Antennse black, shortly finely pilose, first joint almost 

 as long as head and pronotum together, second shorter than 

 first, slightly longer than third (fourth mutilated in typical 

 specimen) ; rostrum not quite reaching the intermediate 

 cox£e ; pronotum subequal in length to breadth at base, the 

 lateral margins oblique and shortly crenulate, lateral angles 

 not prominent ; membrane very distinctly cellular at base j 



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