384 :\rr. W. L. Distant on 



a sharp division between tlic pronotum and the sides of the 

 prothorax. 



The lai'gc protliorax extending beyond the liead, witli its 

 anterior fringe of eight stout tubercles, four on each side of 

 a median interval (the two nearest the interval on each side 

 being the largest), and the transparency of the elytra serve 

 to separate this insect from any other of the Ipida3 known to 

 me. The head is concave in front, with a semicircular row 

 of pale hairs above the mouth, rugulose and hairy behind. 

 The difference in colour of the femora and tibicC is more 

 marked than in Xykborus fornicutus. 



LI II. — Rliynchota from the Solomon Islands. 

 By AV. L. Distant. 



]\]r. W, W. FroGGAIT collected on these i.«^lands during July 

 and August, 1909. He kindly sent me lepresentatives of 

 his collection for identification and description, imd the 

 following is a list of the species thus obtained. All the 

 specimens and types are now in the British Museum. 



Heteropteha. 

 Auslrtmalaya ornatula, sp. n. | AAiagastus camlelli, Dist. 



HOMOVTERA. 



Teggiona nigrij'nis, ^Valk. 

 Zoruida scutetlaris, AValk. 

 Ixicania bdescens, pp. n. 

 lAiricaiiia tnnislucida, Moutr. 

 discigidta, AN alk. 



J^uricania glon'oga, sp. n. 

 Armacia atrofasciaUf, sp. n. 

 ^oj>/una ])uiic}ulosa, sp. u. 

 Chiiid frogg(dti, sp. ii. 

 Jariessiis nv/vmonDifif, sp. u. 



Genus Austromalaya. 



Spudfpus, Dull. Li^^t Hem. i. p. 168 (18ol), iiom. preocc. 

 Austrojralaya, Kirk. Entomologist, 1908, p. ll*4, u. uom. 



Type, A. reticulata^ Westw. 



Austroinahitja ornatula^ sp. n. 



Pitchy brown, shining, coiium opaque; head above with a 

 purplish tint, and with a short, central, longitudinal, basal 

 Jascia and a curved line before each eye, ocliraceous ; ajitennje 

 black ; prom tutn with a central, longitudinal, pale ochraccous 

 line; scutellum centrally ochraccous, attenuated posteriorly 



