1909. ] FAUNA OF COCOS-KEELING ATOLL. 153 
of the genus—(C. guadrimaculatum Gahan and C. nigrum Gahan— 
were taken there by Dr. Andrews. > 
(15) CaLocycius ANNULARIS Fabr. 
Only one specimen taken, flying in the sunshine, on March Ist, 
1906. Does not occur on Christmas Island. 
(16) Ruorica HoNESTA Pasc. 
(17) Ruopica Binotara Gahan. 
Both unique specimens. The genus is not represented on 
Christmas Island. 
Seventeen species of beetles therefore occur on the Cocos- 
Keeling group, and only one—a cosmopolitan species—is definitely 
known to be also an inhabitant of Christmas Island, although 
the coleopterous fauna of that island embraces ninety-five species. 
RHYNCHOTA. 
By W. L. Distant, F.E.S. 
Suborder HETEROPTERA. 
Fam. PENTATOMID2. 
Subfam. CypDNINz. 
(1) GEoromus PYGM&US. 
thus pygmeus Dall. List Hem. i. p. 120 (1851). 
Geotomus pygmeus Sign. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. (6) 11. p. 51, t. 111. 
f. 160 (1883); Dist. Faun. B. I., Rhynch. i. p. 98, f. 49 (1902). 
Hab. Widely distributed: recorded from Ceylon, Bombay, 
Burma, Andaman Islands, and generally distributed throughout 
the Malayan Archipelago; found in China and Japan, and 
recorded from New Caledonia and Hawaii. 
Subfam. PENTATOMIN2. 
(2) NEZARA VIRIDULA. : 
Cimex viridula Linn. Syst. Nat. ed. 10, p. 444 (1758). 
For full synonymy ef. Dist. Biol. Centr-Am., Rhynch. 1. p. 78 
(1880). 
This species is distributed throughout the Palearctic, Nearctic, 
and Ethiopian regions, and over a large portion of the Neotropical, 
Oriental, and Australian regions. 
Subfam. ASOPINa. 
(3) OECHALIA CONSOCIALIS, 
Pentalatoma consocialis Boisd. Voy. Astrol., Ent. u. p. 630, 
Geena nC 8 35): 
