On Rhynchota from New Caledonia. l-iS 



Left-s unarmed (38, 35, 34, and 41 mm.). Metatarsus T. 

 and II. scopulated 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. Josd 

 Pinto da Fonseca. 



Type. A fenia4e, in the collections of the S. Paulo Museum. 



XIX. — 111 lyncliota from New Caledonia. 

 By W. L. Distant. 



This collection of Rhj'nchota was made during the expedition 

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

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

 and flora of this most interesting Frencii colony *. Tlie 

 expenses o£ the expedition were largely defrayed by grants 

 from the Koyal Society^ the Percy JSladen 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 atn 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 Rhynchotal collection is now contained 

 in the British Museum. 



Part I. 



HETEROPTERA. 

 Fam. PentatomidsB. 



Subfam. ScUTELLEBIN^. 



Genus ColeOTICHUS, White f. 

 Coleotichiis costatus. 

 Coleotichus costatus, Fabr. Maut. ii. p. 282 (1787). 

 Hah. Mt. Dore, Noumea. 



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



t C. artensis, Montr. (Scutelkra artensia), 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 Boux which I previously worked out (Nov. 

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



