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A NEW FROGHOPPER FROM TOBAGO. 

 By J. C. Kershaw. 



Tomaspis carmodyi, sp. nov. 



Very near T. saccharina, Distant. The general ground-colour is, however, 

 darker — nearly black. The ochreous costal marking of the tegmen forming, 

 when both tegmina are closed, an inverted V" sna P e ^ marking, is almost obsolete 

 in T. carmodyi. The other ochreous markings on the tegmina are rather smaller 

 and sharper in outline than in T. saccharina. The chief difference is in the 

 harpes of the genital styles, which are longer, sharper and bent outwards in 

 T. carmodyi. Length, $ 7-7*5 mm., Q 7*5-8 mm. 



Hah. Island of Tobago, B.W.I. ; on grass. 



A sketch of the genital styles of T. saccharina and T. carmodyi appeared in a 

 Circular of the Board of Agriculture, Trinidad, March 1913. 



A BUG ATTACKING SESAMUM INDICUM, L. 



By W. L. Distant. 



Phricodus hystrix, Germar. 



Aradus hystrix, Germ., in Silb. Rev. ent. v, p. 134 (1837). 



Phricodus hystrix, Spin., Mag. Zool. 1840, pi. 40.; Sign., Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. (2) 



vii, p. 327, pi. ix, fig. 111. (1849). 

 Stcnotoma desjardinsii, Westw., Trans. Ent. Soc. 1847, pi. 18, fig. 6. 

 Phricodus fasciatus, Sign., Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. (3) viii, p. 924 (1861). 



Phricodus hystrix, Germ., is a Pentatomid bug found in South and Central 

 Africa, Madagascar and Mauritius, though in a large collection from the 

 Seychelles which I recently worked out, the species was not included. Mr. T. 

 Bainbrigge Fletcher has just sent me specimens for identification from 

 Coimbatore, S. India, and states that — " It is fairly common here at light and 

 has also been found on Gingelly plants." In all the large collections from India 

 which have passed through my hands in preparing the Rhynchotal portion of 

 the " Fauna of British India " this species was absent, and it is probably of recent 

 introduction in Coimbatore. 



The Gingelly plant on which it was found is an oil-plant {Sesamum indicum, 

 Linn.) and is distributed all over Tropical Africa, so that the insect will probably 

 be found infesting the leaves of that plant in Africa as well as in India. 



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