On Ii/if/ncJiot.ifrom the Aru Islands. 



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LIV. — Rhynchota from the Aru Islands, 

 hy W. L. Distant. 



Mr. W. "W. Fkocgatt has recently sent me a small collection 

 ot liii\ ncliota made at the Aru Islands. The British Museum 

 is rich in specimens tVom these islands, collected by Dr. A. \i. 

 Wallace, and described by \V'alker, Stal, and some by myself. 

 The following is a list o£ the species obtained through 

 I\lr. Fio^gattj all of which are now in the National Collection: — 



Catacnnthus sumptuo^iis, Dohrn. 

 Li/raniorp/iti diluta, 8tal. 



Heteroptkra. 



Mictis aruana, sp. n. 



IIOMOPTERA. 



Platypleura canesceiis, ^^'alk. 

 Saicda froiji/aiti, sp. ii. 

 Diceropyija obtccf.a, Fabr. 

 Batumi e.chaustft, Guer. 

 A/'/taiia reversa, Walk. 

 Paricana cunufera, Dist. 

 liicania caliijiiiosa, Walk. 

 lurida, Walk. 



Ricania trimacula, Guer. 

 Juiricaiiia concinna, Stal. 

 Cdhjar p^r acuta, Wallv. 

 PJij/moides rubroniacidatus, Dist» 

 Neovronvia bistriyuttata, StSl. 

 Clovia subju?uta, Walk. 

 Cosmoscarta urvillei, St. Farg. 

 Tartessus sp. 



Genus Mictis. 



Midis, Leach, Zool. Misc. i. p. 92 (1814). 

 Type, M. prof ana, Fabr. 



2Iictis aruana, sp. n. 



Head black, sparingly greyishly pilose; pronotura, scu- 

 tellum, corium, and sternum thickly, shortly, greyishly 

 pilose; membrane dark shining olivaceous; lateral margins 

 of pronotum (not reaching aj)ex), base of lateral margins to 

 corium, and lateral margins of first and second abdominal 

 segments ochraceous ; three large carmine-red spots on each 

 side of sternum, one on each segment. 



cJ . Antennae black, shortly tinely pilose, first joint almost 

 as long as head and pronotum together, second shorter than 

 first, slightly longer than third (fourtli mutilated in typical 

 specimen) ; rostrum not quite reaching the intermediate 

 coxai ; pronotum subequal in lengtii to breadth at base, the 

 lateral margins oblique and shortly crenulate, lateral angles 

 not prominent ; membrane very distinctly cellular at base ; 



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