THE GENUS MYNDUS IN THE MALAY ISLANDS 

 (HOMOPTERA) 



Of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Experiment Station, Honolulu 



Genus MYNDTJS Stal 

 Myndus Stal, Berl. Ent. Zeit. 6 (1862) 307; type, musivus Stal. 



Most of the described species of this genus inhabit North 

 America and the West Indies, thirteen species being recorded 

 from those regions. Two species are recorded from the Pa- 

 lsearctic Region, one from Fiji, and one from Samoa. The 

 present paper describes eleven species from the Malay Islands 

 and thereby gives a totally different orientation to the distri- 

 bution of this genus. These species differ from the type species 

 in having the vertex and f rons comparatively broader, especially 

 Myndus caligineus. In this respect they approach such North 

 American species as M. erotatus Van Duzee, but in this species 

 the transverse carina is indistinct and there is an indistinct 

 longitudinal median carina on the basal half of the vertex. 



The first five are all closely related; M. semialbus stands 

 by itself as does M. dolosus; M. fastiatus and M. brunneus from 

 Amboina are also isolated. The two species from Borneo, M. 

 mundus and M. caligineus, differ considerably from the others. 

 Many more species of this genus are sure to be found in the 

 Malay Archipelago, but their identification will be almost im- 

 possible unless the male genitalia are described or figured. 



The types of the new species described in this paper are in 

 the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Experiment Station collection, 

 Honolulu. Paratypes, when present, are in the Baker collection. 



Myndus maculosus sp. no v. Plate 1, fig- 1. 



Male.— Length, 2.1 millimeters; tegmen, 2.9. Width of ver- 

 tex at base slightly greater than length in middle; transverse 

 carina about middle. Length of face subequal to width, narrow- 

 est at base. Forking of Sc and R slightly basad of Cu. 



