398 E. BERGROTH 
dam includente prope commissuram, macula magna postme- 
diana transversim subtriangulari (hac venis tribus pallidis per- 
secta) maculaque parva rotunda costali nonnihil ante apicem 
nigris vel fuscis, membrana ochreo-cinerea, margine basali et 
venis nigtis, acetabulis luteis; antennae testaceae, articulis 
secundo apicem versus et duobus ultimis totis fuscis; rostrum 
fusco-testaceum, apice nigrum; pedes testacei, cee basali 
et annulo subapicali femorum piceo-nigris, tibiis saepe medio 
we “| late infuscatis. Caput impunctatum, articulo secundo anten- 
a! My narum primo. */4 longiore, tertio primo aeque longo, quarto 
tertio sesqui longiore. Pronotum lobo antico impunctatum, 
Bara ties se lobo postico remote fusco-punctatum. Scutellum impunctatum. 
\fIM y Corium sparsim, hic et illic subseriatim fusco-punctatum, Pec- 
ae 4 tus solum in metapleuris remote punctatum. Segmentum sex- 
tum ventrale maris quinto et quarto conjunctis pallulo brevius. Long. 4,5— 
5.3 mm.» 

Masatierra. 16, 3 &, and a larva. 
»In spite of the long corium it must be considered a subbrachypterous 
form. The coria are apparently fused together along the whole commissure, 
the hindwings are in all probability lacking, and the insect is thus incapable 
of flying. It is not likely to have a macropterous form. Should such a form 
contrary to all presumption exist, it will prove to have the pronotum broader 
behind, the coria free and considerably shorter, and the membrane much longer.» 
Fam. Reduviidae. 
4. Ploeariodes rubromaculatus Blackb., Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. 
(2) Ill, 349 (1889). — P. Euryale Kirk., Ann. cit. XXXIII, 372 (1908). — 
P. californica Banks, Psyche XVI, 46 (1909); Bergr., Not. Ent. II, 50 & 78 
(1922). — P. Froggatti Horv., Ann. Mus. Hung. XII, 643 (1914). 
Masatierra. A few specimens beaten from bushes. 
This species is almost cosmopolitan. It was originally described from 
Hawaii and has since been described under different names from the Fiji Is- 
lands, California, and New South Wales. Mr. J. G. MYERS has recently sent 
me specimens of it from New Zealand, and Mr. MALLOCH (who has pointed 
out to me the synonymy of Luryale and calzfornica) informs me that he knows 
the species also from the Atlantic coast of U. S. A. and from Madeira. 
Ploeariola Reut. has now proved to be generically inseparable from P/oea- 
riodes B. White. 
5. Ploearia Huttoni Scott. 
Masafuera. 3 specimens. 
This species is so characteristic both structurally and in its colouring that 
I think there can be no doubt as to the identification. The two pale spots 
on the abdominal tergal segments, which in SCOTT’s two type specimens were 
