XIII. D, 2 Bergroth: Philippine Heteroptera, I 63 



Rhiophila breviceps sp. no v. 



Testaceous with a brownish tint, corium near the costal 

 margin with three short fuscous streaks, one before, the two 

 others side by side behind the middle, and with a few small 

 fuscous spots in the disk, the apical angle brown, posterior 

 angle of metapleura whitish, venter brown, rostrum brownish 

 testaceous, antennae and legs testaceous, base and a subapical 

 annulation of second antennal joint and base of third black, 

 fourth joint black with a subbasal testaceous annulation, a 

 median ring to femora and apex of tarsi fuscous ; above sparingly 

 set with short erect pale hairs. Head above with a very short 

 and fine pale sericeous pubescence, second antennal joint some- 

 what longer than first and slightly longer than third. Pronotum 

 very thickly and finely punctate, scutellum and pleura less thickly 

 so. Abdomen impunctate, beneath clothed with very tiny sil- 

 very scales, which on the sides are arranged in two longitudinal 

 rows of small spots, fifth male ventral segment in the middle 

 less than half the length of fourth, sixth a little shorter than 

 the three preceding segments together. 



Length, male, 2.6 millimeters, inclusive of membrane, 3. 



Luzon, Laguna, Mount Banahao. 



Viewed in profile this insect very much resembles a Teracrius 

 in its general shape, but the abdomen is shorter. 



Ninus insignis Stal. 



Ninus insignis Stal, Freg. Eug. Resa, Ins. (1859), 253, PI. Ill, fig. 5. 



Luzon, Laguna, Lqs Baiios and Mount Maquiling. 



This species was hitherto known only from Guam, but it is 

 widely distributed; some of the specimens before me agree 

 perfectly with the description of the Fijian N. stylatus Kirk., 

 which is certainly a synonym, and N. singalensis Bredd. differs 

 in no essential points and is apparently the same species. It 

 is stated by Muir to be common on sugar cane in the Fiji Islands 

 and will probably be found in many places in the Austro-Malayan 

 Region if searched for on Saccharum and allied Graminese; yet 

 Matsumura'' did not find it in Formosa among the 125 species 

 of insects he states to be injurious to sugar cane in that island. 



The genus Ninus Stal, with its single species, had hitherto 

 been unknown to me and is apparently still unknown to Distant. 

 The three species described by him as belonging to Ninus, as 

 well as N. sechellensis Bergr. and N. subsessilis Kirk., appertain 



' Die schadlichen und niitzlichen Insekten vom Zuckerrohr Formosas. 

 Tokyo (1910). 



