On Rhynchota from New Caledonia. 143 



Legs unarmed (38, 35, 34, and 41 mm.). Metatarsus I. 

 and II. seopulated almost to base ; metatarsus III. in the 

 apical two-thirds ; IV. without scopula. 



Palpal tarsus strongly bowed at basal third ; beyond curved, 

 hollow, depressed, with three longitudinal series of little 

 black cuspids. 



Hah. Marianna (Estado de Minas Geraes). Coll. Jose* 

 Pinto da Fonseca. 



Type. A female, in the collections of the S.Paulo Museum. 



XIX. — Rhynchota from New Caledonia. 

 By W. L. Distant. 



This collection of Rhynchota was made during the expedition 

 to New Caledonia during the whole of 1914 by Mr. P. W. 

 Montague and Prof. R. H. Compton to investigate the fauna 

 and flora of this most interesting French colony *. The 

 expenses of the expedition were largely defrayed by grants 

 from the Royal Society, the Percy Sladen Trust Fund, and 

 the Worts Fund of the University of Cambridge. 



Prof. R. H. Compton subsequently presided at the Botanical 

 Gardens, Cape Town, S.A., but Mr. Montague was a victim 

 in the late great war. I am informed by Mr. Hugh Scott, of 

 Cambridge, that " Montague went over a trench in Macedonia 

 and was never heard of again." 



The whole of the Rhynchota! collection is now contained 

 in the British Museum. 



Part I. 



HETEROPTERA. 

 Fam. Pentatomidae. 

 Subfam. &cutellemn&. 

 Genus COLEOTICHUS, White f. 

 Coleotichus costatus. 

 Cokotichus costatus, Fabr. Mant. ii. p. 282 (1787). 

 Hab. Mt. Dore, Noumea. 



* ' The Geographical Journal,' xlix. p. 81 (1917). 



t C. artensis, Montr. (Scutellera artensis), A. S. Linn. Lyon. v. p. 259 

 (1858), is also contained in the Brit. Mus. from both New Caledonia and 

 Moreton Bay, Australia, but is not included in this collection nor in the 

 one made by Sarasin and Roux which I previously worked out (Nov. 

 Caled. Zool. i. L. iv. 10 (1914). 



