Ml. W. L. Distiuit on l.yg;eiJie. 539 



Allied to N. speciosus, Dist., from wlilcli it can be at once 

 separated by the different colour of the proiiotuui and pro- 

 sternum. 



Genus Arocatus. 

 Ai-ocattis rusdcus. 



Tetralaccus rusticux, St;^l, Berl. ent. Zeit. x. p. 163 (186fij. 

 Astacops? califjntus, Walk. Cat. Het. v. p. Sti. u. 14 (1872). 

 Lygteus sub/ectus, Walk. loc. cit. p. 62. n. 137. 

 Lyg(Bus ruficoUis, Walk. luc. cit. p. 64. n. 143. 



Genus CiEXOCORIS. 

 Ccenocoris Nerii. 



Lygeeus Nerii, Germ. Faun. Eur. p. 24. 



Ccenocoris Nerii, Fieber, Europ. Hem. p. 166 (1861). 



Lygmissemirubes, Walk. Cat. Het. v. p. 58. n. 117 (1872). 



I possess specimens from Sind, which may probably be the 

 locality of the "E. Indian" specimens in tha British MusRum. 

 My Sind examples are indistinguishable from others collected 

 by Mr. Trovey Blackmore in Morocco. 



Genus Nysius. 

 Xyslns jamaicensis. 



Nysiusjamaicensis, Dall. Li-st Hem. ii. p. o55 (1852). 

 Nysius providiis, vars., Uhler, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1893, p. 705. 

 Nysius providux, Uhler, loc. cit. 1894, p. 182. 



Prof. Uhler enumerated the species in 1893 {supra), but 

 described it in the following year (1894). The specimens he 

 first denominated as providus, vars., he returned labelled 

 N. scolopax, Say, var. ; but Uiiler remarks " the true N. scolo- 

 pax, Say, has a rostrum which reaches to the middle of the 

 venter, which is not the case in the species here described." 



Nysius scolopax. 



Lygeeus scolopax, Sav, New Harm. Ind., Dec. 1831 ; Compl. Writ. i. 



■p. 330. 8 (1859). " 

 Belonochilus? scolupa.i; St£l, En. Hem. iv. p. 122 (1874) ; Leth. & Sev 



Cat. G^n. H<5m. t. ii. p. 150 (1894). 

 Nysiris scohpar, Uhler, Pro.". Zool. Soc. 1894, p. 182. 



Species not belonging to the Lygaiidte. 



Coreidae. 

 Serinetha suhrufescena. 



Lygeeus suhrufescens, Kirby, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1888, p. 553 ; Moungr. 

 Christmas Island, p. 128. n. 3. 



Mr. Kirby was evidently misled by the displacement of a 



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