DISTANT—RHYNCHOTA. PART I: SUBORDER HETEROPTERA 151 
37. Pachygrontha confusa, sp. n. 
Closely allied to the preceding species P. bipunctata but differing by the longer 
antenne, much longer than the body, first joint as long as head, pronotum and scutellum 
together, second joint distinctly longer than third, shghtly longer than head and pronotum 
together ; rostrum slightly passing the anterior cox ; in some specimens the small black 
spot at about middle of apical margin to corium is distinct, in others it is absent, while 
the submarginal black or piceous fascia to the abdomen beneath as in P. bipunctata is 
much paler and-more testaceous in hue, or entirely absent ; sometimes the lateral margins — 
of the pronotum are distinctly darkly punctate, but this is a varietal character found in 
both species. 
Long. 7 to 8 mm. 
Loc. Seychelles. Mahé: near Morne Blanc, about 1000 feet; Port Victoria ; 
Cascade Estate, 800—1000 feet; Long Island. From grass in plantations &c., mostly 
near coast, not in mountains. 
Bergroth recorded P. bipunctata from Mahé, and possibly overlooked the fact that 
two species exist there; P. confusa in this collection is the more abundant. 
Subfamily Oxycarenine. 
Genus MARUTHAS. 
Maruthas Dist., Faun. Brit. Ind., Rhynch., v. p. 44 (1910). 
Oxycarenus Horv. (nec Fieb.), Ann. Mus. Hung., x. p. 609 (1912). 
The type of this genus was received from Ceylon. The structural differences 
between Maruthas and Oxycarenus were detailed (supra), and these Horvath seems to 
have ignored. 
38. Maruthas fumigatus, sp. n. (Plate 12, fig. 1). 
Head black ; pronotum pitchy-brown with a broad transverse piceous fascia on the 
anterior half and near the anterior margin, which is dull ochraceous; scutellum piceous ; 
corium dull ochraceous, the lateral margins paler, membrane very pale fuliginous ; body 
beneath (as best seen in unique carded type) and legs castaneous ; tibize ochraceous, their 
bases and apices more or less castaneous ; antennze with the first joint black, not reaching 
apex of head, second longest, ochraceous with its apex black, third and fourth black, their 
bases more or less ochraceous ; head longer than broad, attenuate and obtusely angulate 
anteriorly ; thickly finely granulate and pilose ; pronotum longer than broad, transversely 
impressed near middle, before which it is transversely subglobose and centrally depressed, 
thickly coarsely punctate, the lateral margins longly pilose ; scutellum coarsely punctate ; 
membrane not quite reaching abdominal apex ; anterior femora robust and strongly spined 
beneath. 
Long. 4 mm. 
Loc. Cosmoledo, 1907 (Thomasset). 
