1888.] INSECTS OF CHRISTMAS ISLAND. .5.53 



HEMIPTERA. 

 Lyg^id^e. 

 Lyg^eus subrufescens, sp. n. 



Long. corp. 11-13 millim. 



Pitchy brown above ; the head, pronotum, and base of the elytra 

 bordered with dull red ; the ocelli and the space between each eye 

 brighter red ; antennae and legs pitchy brown above and below ; head 

 and body dull red beneath (in the female the abdomen is sliaded 

 with brown on the sides and towards the extremity, and the legs are 

 of a redder brown beneath than above). Proboscis pitciiy, extending 

 to the middle of the third segment of the abdomen. 



Allied to L. longiusculus, Walk., from Celebes. 



The female was taken at Flying-Fish Cove on October 2. 



HOMOPTERA. 



ClCADID^E. 

 OXYPLEURA CALYPSO, Sp. U, 



Male. Black, with testaceous markings. Head black ; front of 

 vertex with a wide testaceous stripe on each side, extending from the 

 inside of the eye to the striated portion of the face. Longitudinal 

 sulcation broad, rather deep, black, surmounted by a trapeziform 

 ochreous spot ; the transverse striations, except the upper ones, are 

 marked with ochreous, ending in a continuous ochreous stripe, not 

 striated, on each side of the extremity of the longitudinal sulcation. 

 Sides of face clothed with thick yellowish-grey hair ; labrum witli a 

 longitudinal testaceous strijie, expanded above and below ; proboscis 

 testaceous, black towards the extremity, and reaching as far as the 

 hinder trochanters ; antennae black. Pronotum testaceous, entirely 

 so behind ; a dumbbell-shaped black mark in irunt of tliis, extending 

 to the front edge, and the central sutures blackish ; sides not greatly 

 expanded, with irregular black markings, and clothed with grey hair ; 

 mesonotum black, with two short thick tawny stripes on each side, 

 not reaching the front edge, and a spear-headed tawny mark, filled 

 with black in the middle, directed forwards ; scutellum with the 

 hinder half and lateral ridges testaceous. Abdomen black ; sutures 

 narrowly edged with testaceous, especially on the sides ; segment 7 

 with two testaceous dots in the middle and a larger spot on each 

 side. Sternum mostly black, clothed with greyish hair ; legs testa- 

 ceous ; coxae, four front femora, and tarsi streaked with black above ; 

 opercula testaceous, extending nearly to the end of the first segment 

 of the abdomen. Abdomen beneath testaceous ; basal segment entirely 

 black, the following segments triangularly blackish on each side at 

 the base, the last two lateral lobes spotted with black. Tegulse and 

 wings hyaline, with brown nervures ; costal nervures and inner mar- 

 ginal nervures testaceous. 



Allied to 0. bufo and 0. polita. Walk., but differently marked. 



An extremely hairy pupa, marked " Dug up, earth, October 8," 



