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and lateral and posterior margins) ocliraceously punctate ; 

 clavus ocliraceous ; corinni and nienibrune pale hyaline ; 

 antetinee dark ocliraceous ; apices of second and third joints 

 fuscous; eyes fuscous ; bod}' beneath and leg.s stramineous ; 

 lateral margins of head beneath and sternum ochraceous. 



Long. 3 mm. 



Bah. Island of St. Vincent (//. Smith, Brit. Mus.). 



Tiiis species has little in common with Annona decoloris^ 

 Dist. 



Fam. Gelastocoridae. 



Subfam. MoNONTCRINM. 



Mononyx luteovarius, sp. n. 



Fuscous ; lateral margins of head and pionotum^ clavus, 

 basal lateial margins of corium and connexivum pale luteous, 

 spotted with tuscous ; body beneath bhick ; head beneath pale 

 luteous with coirei-pDiiding marginal markings to those above ; 

 femora dark brownish castaneous j apices of femora and the 

 tibiai and tarsi ochraceous ; anterior tarsi and bases and apices 

 of intermediate and |)osterior tarsi jjiceous. Head with two 

 prominent tubercles between eyes, apex concavely sinuate, 

 with two obtuse sj)ines and another similar spine on each side 

 nearer eyes ; pronotum with the disk profoundly excavated, 

 a transverse impression a little behind anterior margin and 

 another beyond middle, the last crossed hj three prominent 

 stria*, lateral margins ampliately rotundately produced; head, 

 pronotum, and scutelkun thickly punctate ; apjx of scutelluin, 

 mottlings to corium, and apical margin to membrane pale 

 luteous. 



Long. 8^; exp. pronot. angl. 6|- millim. 



llab. Queensland: Townsville {F. P. IJodd, Biit. Mas.). 



Fam. Nepidse. 

 Genus Laccotrephes. 

 Laccotrephes Jlavovenosa. 



Nepa Jlavo-venosa, Dohrn, Stett. ent. Zeit. xvi. p. 409 (1860). 

 Laccotrephes japoneiisis, ycott, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (4) xiv. p 450 

 (1874J. 



The British Museum contains specimens from India 

 Ceylon, tSiam, Formosa, China, and Japan, including Scott's 

 type. 



