Rhynchola^ Familij Tjyi;a?i(la3, 489 



Masoas transvaaliensis, Dist. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (7) 

 xviii. p. :i>90 (190G). 



The type of this species was from the Transvaal (Pretoria) ; 

 tlie Brit. Mas. now contains two other specimens from 

 Angola which are slightly larger, measuring in lengtli 

 4^ mm. The type has only a dimension of 3^ mm. 



Oxycarenus collaris, ]\Iuls. & Rev. Ann. Soc. Lin, Lvon, 

 1852, p. 102 ; Oshan, Verz. Pal. Hem. Bd. 1, HeteropL. 

 p. 300 (1906). 



This Palearctic species, as liitlierto understood, must now 

 be also inchided in the Oriental fauna, as the Britisli Museum 

 has recently received specimens from the Agricultural Col- 

 lege, Poona. It was found ''infesting in large numbers 

 the capsules of tho saftlower plant grown in Poona'' 

 (Harold Mann) . 



Maruthas bicolor. 



Maruthas bicolor, Dist. Nov. Caledou. 1, L. iv. p. 371', pi. xi. fig. 5 



(1014). 

 Oxycarenus bicoloratus, Bergr. Pbil. Jouru. Sci. xiii. p. 73 (1918). 



Hub. New Caledonia. 



Clerada apicicornis, Sign, in ]Maillard, Notes sur I'lle de la 

 Reunion, ins. p. 28, pi. xx. fig. 8 (1862). 



This very widely distributed species can now be recorded 

 from Queensland ; Kuranda (F. P. Dodd). 



Famera tricolor ata^ sp. n. 



Head, pronotum, and sciitellum black; corium dark cas- 

 taneous ; apex of scutellum and lateral marginal area of 

 corium to beyond middle ochraceous, on apical area of 

 corium two pale ochraceous or greyish spots in transverse 

 series, in some sjjccimens these spots are united and in 

 others they are praciic.dly absent; membrane brownish 

 ocliraceous; body bei.eath and legs black ; apices of femora, 

 basal areas of intermediate and posterior femora, and the 

 whole. of the tibia3 and tarsi ochraceous ; antennae piceous, 

 second joint paler, fourth joint with basal half jjale ochra- 

 ceous, second joint a little longest, third and fourth almost 

 subequal in length; a:. terior lobe of pronotum witii a distinct 

 anterior collar, c-nvex, a litth* longer than posterior lobe 

 but narrower, the posterior lohe somewhat coarsely punctate; 

 scutellum centially longitudinally carinatc, the carination 



