MERRAGATA. 133 



Genus MERRAGATA. 



Merragata, Such. White, A. M. N. H. (4) xx, p. 113 (1877) ; Champ. 



Biol. Centr.-Am., Rhynch. Hem.-Het. ii, p. 121 (1898). 

 Lipogomphus, Berg, Hem. Argent, p. 286 (1879) ; id. torn. cit. Add. 



$ Emend, p. 116(1884). 



Type, M. hebroides, Buch. White, from the Hawaiian Islands. 



Distribution. Oriental and Neotropical Regions ; Hawaiian Islds. 

 Probably much more widely distributed. 



This genus is closely allied to Hebrus and is principally to be 

 differentiated by the shorter and four- jointed antennae. Buchanan 

 White described the antennae as five-jointed, but this, as Champion 

 has pointed out, was due to " counting the minute jointlet at the 

 base of the third joint as a true joint." Berg described the 

 posterior tarsi as three- jointed, but as Champion also remarks 

 " this cannot be correct." 



2906. Merragata pallescens, Dist. A. M. N. H. (8) iii,p.498(1909). 



Head, pronotum, and scutellum pale cinnamon-brown ; corium 

 ochraceous, the claval area milky white, base of costal margin 

 narrowly black; membrane milky white; head beneath and sternum 

 pale cinnamon-brown ; abdomen beneath piceous ; legs and rostrum 

 ochraceous ; antennae ochraceous, with fine hairs, third joint a 

 little shorter than second, fourth piceous and about subequal in 



Fig. 71. Merragata pallescens. 



length to third ; pronotum with the lateral margins strongly 

 sinuate, the lateral angles broadly prominent, the basal margin 

 moderately concave before scutellum ; apex of scutellum broadly 

 subtruucate, very slightly angulate on each side, the disk trans- 

 versely foveately depressed. 



Length 2 millim. 



Hob. East Bengal ; Eajshai (Annandale). 



I have only seen a single specimen of this beautiful and 

 distinctly marked species. 



