RHYNCHOTA PHILIPPINENSIA, PART I. 



By W. L. Distant. 



[London and Norivood Junction, England.) 



AVlien visiting London in 1908^ Mr. Charles S. Banks, the Government 

 Entomologist at Manila, brought a collection of Ehynchota for determina- 

 tion. This collection contained the following apparently undescribed 

 species, and three others which have been described elsewhere, viz : 



Macropes philijypinensis Dist., Rec. Ind. Mus. (1909) 3, 165, PI. 11, fig. 7, a. 

 (Lygseidse) 



Catara philippinensis Dist., loe. cit. 172, PI. 11, fig. 12, a. ( Fulgoridae ) 

 Riliana atra Dist., Entomologist (1909) 207. (Cicadidse) 



There was also a number of species not enumerated in Stal's "Hemip- 

 tera Insularum Philippinarum," but these will be included in a complete 

 list of the known species when more material has accumulated. These 

 Islands probably contain a very exclusive Ehynchotal fauna. 



Older EHYNCHOTA. 



Suborder HETEROPTERA. 

 Family PENTATOMID.^. 



CANTAO Amyot et Serville. 

 H4m. (1843) 29. 

 Type: G. ocellatus Thunb. 



Cantao intermedius sp. nov. 



Dull brownish ochraceous ; basal area of head centrally continued along middle 

 lobe, but not reaching apex, bluish black; pronotum usually with six small black 

 spots arranged transversely in three pairs, of which those of the middle pair are 

 usually closer together than the others; scutellum with eight black spots, two 

 basal, two on each lateral area (one before, the other beyond' middle) and two 

 central (one near base, the other near apex) ; sternum and legs bluish black; 

 lateral margins of sternimi and abdomen beneath ochraceous; the latter with 

 marginal and a double series of central bluish black spots ; antennae black, second 

 joint very slightly longer than first, third, fourth and iifth subequal in length; 

 rostrum black and reaching the base of the third abdominal segment; pronotum 



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