348 A CATALOGUE OF THE HEMIPrERA OF FIJI, 



The colouring of the Fijian examples, to the differences between 

 which and the Tongan I attach little importance, is as follows : — 

 Vertex, pronotum and scutellum dark metallic green, the pronotum 

 with a bluish discal discoloration, scutellum with the posterior 

 angle luteous. Antennae dark bluish-black, a ferruginous spot on 

 the first segment. The elevated lateral margins of the pronotum 

 luteous. Clavus and corium (except the greenish embolium) 

 reddish-bronzy, membrane bronzy. Tergites black partly with a 

 bluish gleam, their pleurites luteous, bright metallic bluish-green 

 at the incisures. The underside (including the first segment of 

 the labium and the dorsal side of the second) luteous, abdominal 

 spine tinged with red; a bright greenish-blue spot at the incisures 

 of the sternopleurites, also two bluish-green spots on the pygophor; 

 rest of labium blackish-brown. Coxae and femora reddish-luteous; 

 extreme apex of femora, tibiae and fore tarsi blackish with a 

 dark bluish-green gleam; other tarsi mostly yellow. Length 

 28-30mill. 



Rewa (November; Muir); Suva (Knowles, No. 32), 



4. Piezodorus rubrofasciatus (Fabricius) Stal, 1876, I.e. xiv., 

 No.4, 100. 



Rewa (April; Muir); also Ovalau. Also from "North Aus- 

 tralia," New Caledonia, Tahiti, through the Malayan Archipelago 

 to India, Cochin China, Philippines and Japan. Likewise 

 throughout East Africa. 



In the work of Stal cited above (p. 100), there is a misleading 

 error, which I think has been called attention to elsewhere by 

 my friend Dr. Breddin. It is P. pallescens in which the second 

 segment of the antennae is shorter than the third; it is longer in 

 P. rubrofasciatus. 



The nymph in the last instar has the general colouring and 

 appearance of the adult, but is broader in proportion. Apex of 

 the second segment of the antennae blackish. Tergites spotted 

 with sanguineous. Labium extending well beyond the hind 

 coxae. Antennae 7, 20, 15, 18. The anterior margin of the pro- 

 notum is only slightly roundedly emarginate, instead of somewhat 

 deeply as in the adult; lateral margins narrowly laminate and 



