352 A CATALOGUE OF THE HEMIPTERA OF FIJI, 



length of the first segment of the antennae, shortly bifid, the 

 apices of each fork rounded. Spine behind eyes not prominent 

 Antennae 17, 10, 15, 15. Labium not quite reaching prosternum. 

 Pronotum with the anterior margin roundly emarginate, antero- 

 lateral angles acute. Genital segment and the projections lateral 

 of it all rather prominent. Length 3J mill. 



Viti Levu (March; Muir, No. 150), under the bark of an old 

 tree fall of fungus. 



The nymph in the last instar is very similar to the adult. 

 Yellowish (dried), suffused dorsally with greyish. Eyes red. 

 Lateral lobes extending very slightly beyond apex of head. 

 Antennae (of the single specimen before me) discordant; left 10, 7, 

 11, 14; right 10, 7, 17. The right antenna is trisegmentate; the 

 left one appears to be quadrisegmentate, but there is no articula- 

 tion or incision between the apparent third and fourth. As the 

 latter is also the case in the nymphs (of the last instar at least) 

 of Mezira thoracoceras, it is perhaps characteristic of Aradid 



nymphs. 



Fam. LYGAEIDiE. 



19. Miens profanus (Fabricius). 



M. prof ana Stal, 1873, op. cit. xi, 44. 



Rewa (March, April and November; Muir); Suva and island 

 of Taviuni (Knowles, No.191). A widely spread species, inhabit- 

 ing Ceram, Murua, Australia, Lifu, the Solomons and Samoa. 

 The Fijian individuals, which scarcely differ from the more 

 western, typical form, seem to be restricted to Fiji and Samoa, 

 and constitute the var. crux Dallas. 



20. Brachylybas variegatus (Le Guillou). (Plate iv,, figs,4-6). 

 Gonocerus variegatus Le Guillou, 1841, Rev. Zool. 262. 

 Rewa (November, March and April; Muir); Ovalau. Also 



from Tonga. 



This species is now figured dorsally and in profile, with a figure 

 of one of the odoriferous orifices (Pl.iv., figs. 4-6). 



21. Theognis australis (Fabricius) Mayr, 1866, Novara Exp. 



Zool.ii. (2), p.101. 

 Rewa (March; Muir); Suva (Knowles, No. 242). 



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