Rhynchotal Family LygseidaB. 489 



Masons transvaaliensis, Dist. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (7) 

 xviii. p. 290 (1906). 



The type of this species was from the Transvaal (Pretoria) ; 

 the Brit. Mus. now contains two other specimens from 

 Angola which are slightly larger, measuring in length 

 4^ mm. The type has only a dimension of 3£ mm. 



Oxycarenus collaris, Muls. & Rev. Ann. Soc. Lin. Lyon, 

 1852, p. 102 ; Oshan, Verz. Pal. Hem. Bel. 1, Heteropt. 



p. 300 (1906). 



This Palearctic species, as hitherto understood, must now 

 he also included in the Oriental fauna, as the British Museum 

 has recently received specimens from the Agricultural Col- 

 lege, Poona. It was found "infesting in large numbers 

 the capsules of the saftiower plant grown in Poona" 

 (Harold Mann) . 



Maruthas bicolor. 



Maruthas bicolor, Dist. Nov. Caledon. 1, L. iv. p. 371', pi. xi. fig. 5 



(1914). 

 Oxycarenus bicoloratus, Bergr. Phil. Journ. Sci. xiii. p. 73 (1918). 



Uab. New Caledonia." 



Clerada apicicornis, Sign, in Maillard, Notes sur Pile dc la 

 Reunion, Ins. p. 28, pi. xx. fig. 8 (1862). 



This very widely distributed species can now be recorded 

 from Queensland ; Kuranda (F. P. Dodd). 



Pamera tricolor ata, sp. n. 



Head, pronotum, and scutellum black; corium dark cas- 

 taneous ; apex of scutellum and lateral marginal area of 

 corium to beyond middle ochraceous, on apical area of 

 corium two pale ochraceous or greyish spots in transverse 

 series, in some specimens these spots are united and in 

 others they are practically absent; membrane brownish 

 ochraceous; body beneath and legs black ; apices of femora, 

 basal areas of intermediate and posterior femora, and the 

 whole of the tibiae and tarsi ochraceous ; antennae piceous, 

 second joint paler, fourth joint with basal half pale ochra- 

 ceous, second joint a little longest, third and fourth almost 

 subequal in length ; anterior lobe of pronotum with a distinct 

 anterior collar, convex, a little longer than posterior lobe 

 but narrower, the posterior lobe somewhat coarsely punctate; 

 scutellum centially longitudinally carinate, the carination 



