15S PROP. p. R. TTHLEE 0?f THE HEMIPTERA-HETEBOPTEEA [Feb. 20, 



directly at base, tbe costa, and base of the two medial veins of the 

 corium ; the legs and antennas yellow. Head broad, convex, narrower 

 than the front of the pronotum, but with the eyes prominent and 

 extending beyond the pronotum ; antennae reaching to the tip of 

 corium, the basal joints thick, the second one longer than the tirst, 

 and the remaining ones thread-like, set with fine hairs. Pronotum 

 convexly arched, a little wrinkled anteriorly, steeply sloping for- 

 wards, minutely and closely scabrous, with the posterior margin a 

 little decurved, and the humeri moderately prominent ; the scutellum 

 small, dull black. Clavus raised like a tabula ; the veins of the 

 corium coarse and prominent ; the membrane long, dull black, with 

 the medial longitudinal veins long, parallel, and continued to the 

 tip. 



Length to tip of membrane 1| millim. ; width of pronotum 

 I millim. 



Only one specimen was secured on the island, and as it is not 

 labelled, nothing can be stated concerning its habitat. 



SCHIZOPTERA CAPITATA, Sp. nOV. 



This form, omitting the head, is nearly like '5. _^awi2jes, Eeuter. 

 The head departs remarkably from all the related species in being 

 long, conical, and acutely tapering at tip ; the body, bead, pronotum, 

 legs, and scutellum are pale fulvous, with the coriaceous part of the 

 hemelytra velvety black, and the membrane and apex of the corium 

 whitish yellow. Eyes small, lateral, subglobose, blackish ; antennae 

 pale yellowish, reaching beyond the tip of the corium, the basal 

 joint shorter than the second, the second a little thickened at tip, 

 with the remaining joints very slender, dusky, and minutely fringed ; 

 rostrum projecting from behind the middle of the gula, pale 

 testaceous, reaching to the middle coxae, and a little piceous at 

 tip. Pronotum transverse, trapezoidal, fiat above, steeply sloping, 

 with the lateral margins obliquely tapering and the margin a little 

 reflexed ; the anterior margin, as wide as the space between the eyes, 

 abutting against a collum which stands between the eyes ; the 

 posterior margin almost straight, with the humeri subacute. Scutel- 

 lum crescentiform, elevated at base, contracted beyoud the base and 

 acutely tapering to the tip. Corium somewhat greyish pubescent, 

 the veins distinct, the cubital one leaving a wide areole in the 

 interval out to tbe costa and keeping on to tip of membrane ; the 

 costal vein tawny towards the tip, the vein next inward running 

 parallel with this and equally continuous. 



Length to tip of membrane 1| millim. ; width of pronotum 

 I millim. 



Only one specimen was secured. It was found at locality No. 6- 



In this form the hemelytra are very much wider than the abdo- 

 men and longer than usual, with the costal margin curved nearly 

 the same as in S. jiavip-s, Eeut. Mr. Eeuter does not include 

 in this genus any species with produced head ; but the characters 

 in this species, apart from those of the head, seem distinctly to 

 connect it with the genus to which it is now referred. 



