RHYXCHOTA I'ALAWAKICA, PAKT I. 555 



Palawan, Tara Island. P. I., (11717 C. 21. Wchor), 1 specimen. 

 This specimen has the small spots on the pronotuni and scutellum, 

 mentioned by Distant and also by Fabrieins in his oviginal desci-i])tion. 



3. Bhaohyplatys siLi'iioinES Fabr. 



Cimex silphoides Fabr., Bnt. 8yst. (1794), 4, 80. 



id., Syst. Rhyny. (1803), 141. 



Brachyplatys silphoides Stfil, Hem. Fahr. (1808), 1, 5. 



'- ' liturifrons Walk., Cat. Bet. (1807). 1, 102. 



silphoidesBist, Ann. Mag. IS^at. Hist. (1899) (7), 4, 214. 



id., Favna BrHi.^h Ind., Ithyn. (1902), 1, 12. 



Distant says : 



"The distribution of this species is at present very difficult to trace owing to 

 tlie various species wrongly identified under its name. It is certainly known from 

 Borneo." 



In the specimens from Palawan, there can be not the .slightest un- 

 certainty as to identitj', as the markings on the head and abdomen 

 correspond exactly with Distant's description. The fact that the species 

 is positively known from Borneo adds another link to the chain of evidence 

 connecting the fauna of this island with that of the Philippines. 



Palawan, Tara Island; Iwaliig, P. I., (11734 and 11926 C. M. 

 Weber), 60 specimens, all characteristically marked, except that spots 

 between the eyes in the $ 's and some of the $ 's are obsolescent. 



4. Brachyplatys sp. 



A single specimen from Tara Island in which the anterior half of the 

 head is oehraceous except the outlines to juga and tylus, which are 

 narrowly brown. The pronotum has, in addition to the one on the entire 

 anterior mai'gin, an extra oehraceous line extending around the anterior 

 submarginal area, beginning interiad to posterior angles and broken on 

 the median line. The base of the scutellum is mai'ked interiad with a 

 transverse oehraceous spot, while its posterior mai-gin is broadly oehra- 

 ceous. I do not feel Justified in describing it as new from a single 

 example, but it appears to conform to no description that I have read. 



Palawan, Tara Island, P. I., (11716 C. M. Wchcr), 1 specimen. 



COPTOSOMA Laporte. 



Ess. Hem. (1832), 73. 

 Type: C. yloTjosus Fabr. 



5. Coptosoma Cincta Esehsch. 



Coptosoma cincta Esehsch., Dorp. Alli. (1822), 1, 161, 



Thyreocoris seminulimi Bunn., Is! oca Acta Acad. Leap. (1834), 16, Suppl., 



p. 290, No. 10. 

 variegatus Herr-Schiiff., Wanz. Ins. (1839), 4, S3, Tab. 134, 



fig. 414. 



cinctus Germ., Ztschr. (1839), 1, 27, 8. 



lierr.-Sehiiflf., Wanz. Ins. (1839), 5, 30. 



Coptosoma cinctum Dall., List. Hem. (1851), 1, 64. 

 Stal, 0. V. A. F. (1870), 7, 613. 



