Hemiptera. 129 



Family BRACHYRHYXCHID^. 



4. Brachyrhynclius lignicolus, spn. (PI. XV, Fig. 4.) 



Long. Corp. 6inm. ; lat. 2"5mm. 



Dull red, the upper part of the head, the middle of the pronotum, 

 the scutellum, the corium, and the membrane black ; the clavus 

 testaceous ; and the segments of the connexicum often with large 

 dusky markings. Head square, obliquely sloping outvrards, with 

 a projecting point laterally behind the eyes, and another projecting 

 on each side in front of the antennce, between which it is tri- 

 angularly narrowed as far as the broad frontal process, which 

 extends beyond this point for about one-third of the total length 

 of the head ; it is slightly denticulated at the sides, and slightly 

 bifid at the extremity. Antennae with the four joints all of nearly 

 equal length. Pronotum slightly contracted in front, where it is 

 rounded, and slightly concave in the middle, with slight denticula- 

 tions on the sides in front ; on each side of the median line of the 

 front half is a black, iiTegularly-shaped space. The greater part 

 of the insect is moderately coarsely punctured ; the spaces between 

 the veins of the membrane look like large depressed pits. Femora 

 thickened and, as well as the tibiae, very finely denticulated. Under- 

 surface varied with black and red. 



A large number of specimens found under bark in rotting wood. 

 ITearest allied to some specimens of B. ruhrescens, Walker (which 

 probably includes more than one species), but with the markings 

 more clearly defined. 



FamUy HALOBATID^. 

 5. Halobates princeps. 



Salobatet princeps, Buchanan TVTiite : Rep. Pelagic Heniipt. (Challenger Eep., 

 xix), p. 44, pi. i. fig. 3 (1883). 



Three specimens, Flving Fish Cove, August, 1897, 

 The type, now in the British Museum (2?^atural History), was 

 brought from the Celebes Sea. 



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6. Halobates proavus. 



Halobates proavus, Buchanan "Wliite : Eep. Pelagic Heniipt. (Challenger Eep., 

 lix), p. 54, pi. ii, fig. 1 (1883). 



Two specimens, Flying Fish Cove, August, 1897. 

 Originally described from Gilolo. 



