XV. — RHYNCHOTA MALAYANA. 



PART I. 



By W. Iv. Distant. 



It is proposed in these papers, to give from time to time, 

 contributions to a knowledge of the Rh^mchota found to the east 

 of the limits of the area dealt with in the volumes descriptive 

 of the Fauna of British India. A number of species are common 

 to the two areas, and to understand the components of the one, 

 it is necessary to have a knowledge of the other. In fact North 

 iVustralia cannot be eliminated though it is not proposed to deal 

 with it in these papers. One of the rarest and most distinc- 

 tive species in the Indian Pentatomidse is Aniblycara gladiatoria, 

 Stal. It had only been recorded from " India " and Ceylon, 

 and was of the utmost rarity in collections. Quite recently 

 the British Museum received a specimen collected by Mr. Dodd 

 in Queensland. It is also proposed to occasionalh' illustrate some 

 of the many Malayan species described by Walker, the descriptions 

 of which are frequentlj^ inadequate and provocative of synonym}' 

 by writers who cannot consult the types. 



Sub-order HETEROPTERA. 

 Fam. TINGIDID^. 



Genus EIvAsmognathus. 



Elasmognathus , Fieb., Ent. Monogr., pp. 30 and 90 (1844). 

 Type E. helferi ^ Fieb. 



Elasmognathns hewetti, sp. nov. (Pi. vii, figs. 2, 2a.) 



Head black with the antenniferous tubercles sometimes ochra- 

 ceous ; pronotum black, the anterior vesicle and lateral areas 

 ochraceous ; elytra piceous-brown, the sutural area darker brown, 

 costal area ochraceous, inwardly margined, centrally spotted, 

 and transversely marked with black, apical margin ochraceous, 

 intersected by the apices of the brown veins ; abdomen above 

 shining black ; body beneath black ; legs ochraceous ; antennae 

 brown, the apical joint black ; pronotum with the anterior vesicle 

 very coarsely punctate, its disk more thickly and finely punctate 

 with a strong central longitudinal ridge, the lateral areas and 

 the produced margins coarsely granulose, the pronotal posterior 

 elongation more coarsely punctate than on disk, the produced 



