556 Mr. W. L. Distant on 



LXX. — On some recently received Rhyncliota. 

 By W. L. Distant. 



Heteeopteea. 



Coreidae. 



Namacus nympha, sp. n. 



Head, pronotum, and scutellum pale testaceous, more or 

 less thickly blackly punctate ; corium dull ochraceous, 

 thickly blackly punctate, the apical margin narrowly dull 

 testaceous; membrane bronzy olivaceous; body beneath 

 ochraceous ; legs fuscous brown in male, black in female, 

 the femora in male streaked beneath with ochraceous ; 

 antennae black, third joint annulated at base with ochraceous, 

 first joint incrassated, slightly curved, second joint a little 

 longest, fourth moderately thickened, central lobe triangularly 

 somewhat laminately produced in front of the antenniferous 

 tubercles ; rostrum reaching the intermediate coxa? ; ocelli 

 much nearer eyes than to each other ; pronotum with the 

 anterior angles acutely, porrectly prominent, a transverse 

 impression near anterior margin defining a broad anterior 

 collar, thickly punctate with a faint central longitudinal 

 linear impression, the posterior angles slightly nodulose, the 

 basal area distinctly, transversely depressed; membrane with 

 the veins prominent, only slightly furcate ; anterior femora 

 in male distinctly shortly spined beneath in apical area. 



Long., $ 15 mm., $ 17 mm. 



Hab. Brit. Guiana ; New Amsterdam, Public Gardens ; 

 on stems of aquatic plants (6r. E. Bodkin). 



Apparently allied to N. prominulus, Stal, from Surinam, 

 but that species is described as having " lobus medius capitis 

 prope basin denticulo armatus/' the lateral angles of the 

 pronotum in N. nympha are slightly nodulose; membrane 

 not black, but bronzy olivaceous, &c. 



Lygaeidse. 

 Paromius pallidus. 



Plociomerus pallidus, Montrouz. Ann. Soc. Linn. Lyon. 1865, p. 229. 

 Plociomerus seychellesus, Walk. Cat. Het. v. p. 120 (1872). 

 Paromius seychellesus, List. Faun, lirit. hid., Rhynch. ii. p. 50, fig. 37 

 (1904). 



Montrouzier's name must now take precedence over that 

 of Walker. I have seen a specimen of the first-named from 



