1893.1 277 



In one specimen, whicli I take to belong to the female sex, the 

 head has a small central fovea, and is more distinctly punctured 

 throughout, the vertex showing some strigse as well, the antennae and 

 the posterior legs are also shorter, otherwise there is no difference. 



London : Octoher \Sth, 1893. 



ON TWO HALOPHILOUS HEMIPTEEA. 

 BY E. BER&EOTH, M.D. 



Among the numerous Hemiptera collected in the Tropics by Mr. 



J. J. Walker (whose interesting collecting notes are well known to 



the readers of this Magazine), there are two remarkable species from 



the Australian region that dwell in or near salt water. They belong 



to the Families VeliadcB and Acanthiadw. Of the genus Acanthia 



{Salda) other halophilous species are know^n, but no species of Veliadcd 



was previously known to occur in salt water. I wish here to give 



descriptions of these two insects, reserving Mr. Walker's other 



Australian Hemiptera to be more amply reported upon in another 



place. 



HALOVELIA, oi. g. 



Corpus apterum, scaphuliforine, sat altum, subcompressum, ubique, dorso ab- 

 dominis excepto, breviter densissime holosericeo-pubescens, subtus valde convexum, 

 superne anterius conTexiusculum, postice ob latera abdominis compresso-eleTata 

 excavatum. Caput ad oculos parvos rotundatos immersum, subconvexo-declive, 

 antrorsum angustatum, apice obtusura, rostro coxas anticas attingente, articulis 

 duobus primis brevibus, secundo basin capitis non attingente, tertio basalibus duobus 

 unitis longiore, antennis paullum ante oculos insertis, tuberculo antennifero parvo, 

 articulo primo antennarum distincte curvato, dimidio apicali apicem capitis superante, 

 articulis tribus ultimis longitudine sensim cresceutibus, secundo primo breviore. 

 Pronotum valde transversum, medio capite multo brevius, lateribus rotundatis, 

 margine apicali leviter, margine basali late levissime sinuato. Mesonotum postice 

 supra partem basalem abdominis productum, ibidem late rotundatum. Prosternum 

 medio longitudinaliter sulcatum. Mesosternum medio baud canaliculatum. Abdo- 

 men dorso planum, connexivo compresso-elevato. Pedes simplices, intermedii 

 ceteris longiores, antici posticis pauUo breviores, tibiis femoribus brevioribus, anticis 

 apicem versus baud incrassatis, tarsis omnibus biarticulatis, articulo primo tarsorum 

 anticorum secundo multo breviore, articulo primo tarsorum mediorum secundo 

 longiore, tarsis posticis mediis multo brevioribus, articulo primo et secundo longitu- 

 dine subsequalibus, unguiculis apici tarsorum maxima appropinquatis. 



The nearest ally to Halovelia is the genus Microvelia, Westw. 



HaLOVELIA MAKITIMA, sp. 11. 



Latiuscule fusiformis, holosericeo-atra, opaca, macula angusta vel lineola basali 



