398 E. BERGROTH 





dam includente prope commissuram, macula magna postme- 

 diana transversim subtriangulari (hac venis tribus pallidis per- 

 secta) maculaque parva rotunda costali nonnihil ante apicem 

 I *V^^ j nigris vel fuscis, membrana ochreo-cinerea, margine basali et 

 ^^■■^ venis nigris, acetabulis luteis; antennae testaceae, articulis 

 secundo apicem versus et duobus ultimis totis fuscis; rostrum 

 fusco-testaceum, apice nigrum; pedes testacei, dimidio basali 

 et annulo subapicali femorum piceo-nigris, tibiis saepe medio 

 late infuscatis. Caput impunctatum, articulo secundo anten- 

 narum primo ^/^ longiore, tertio primo aeque longo, quarto 

 tertio sesqui longiore. Pronotum lobo antico impunctatum, 

 Jobo postico remote fusco-punctatum. Scutellum impunctatum. 

 Corium sparsim, hie et illic subseriatim fusco-punctatum. Pec- 

 tus solum in metapleuris remote punctatum. Segmentum sex- 



tum ventrale maris quinto et quarto conjunctis pallulo brevius. Long. 4,5 — 



5,3 mm.» 



Masatierra. i J*, 3 ?, and a larva. 



»In spite of the long corium it must be considered a subbrachypterous 

 form. The coria are apparently fused together along the whole commissure, 

 the hindwings are in all probability lacking, and the insect is thus incapable 

 of flying. It is not likely to have a macropterous form. Should such a form 

 contrary to all presumption exist, it will prove to have the pronotum broader 

 behind, the coria free and considerably shorter, and the membrane much longer.* 



Fam. Reduviidae. 



4. Ploeariodes rubromaculatus Blackb., Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. 

 (2) III, 349 (1889). — P. Euryale Kirk., Ann. cit. XXXIII, 372 (1908). — 

 P. calif omica Banks, Psyche XVI, 46 (1909); Bergr., Not. Ent. II, 50 & 78 

 (1922). — P. Froggatti Horv., Ann. Mus. Hung. XII, 643 (1914). 



Masatierra. A few specimens beaten from bushes. 



This species is almost cosmopolitan. It was originally described from 

 Hawaii and has since been described under different names from the Fiji Is- 

 lands, California, and New South Wales. Mr. J. G. Myers has recently sent 

 me specimens of it from New Zealand, and Mr. Malloch (who has pointed 

 out to me the synonymy of Euryale and californicd] informs me that he knows 

 the species also from the Atlantic coast of U. S. A. and from Madeira. 



Ploeariola Reut. has now proved to be generically inseparable from Ploea- 

 riodes B. White. 



5. Ploearia Huttoni Scott. 



Masafuera. 3 specimens. - 



This species is so characteristic both structurally and in its colouring that 

 I think there can be no doubt as to the identification. The two pale spots 

 on the abdominal tergal segments, which in Scott's two type specimens were 



