354 A CATALOGUE OF THE HEMIPTERA OP FIJI, 



27. Dysdercus impictiventris Stal, 1870 op. cit. ix., 120. 

 Rewa (April and November; Muir); Suva (Knowles, No. 185). 

 (J. Like the female described by Stal, but the head above and 



at the sides is black with a faint red speck where the ocelli should 

 be. Callose part of pronotum and the lateral margins orange- 

 yellow, hind lobe cinereous-yellow. Scutellum immaculate orange- 

 red. Labium extending to the apical margin of the second 

 sternite. 



A var. with immaculate orange-brown head was in cop. with a 

 female like the above described male. 



Length, (J 11; $ 13-1 5 mill. 



28. D. insularis Stal, I.e. 



Rewa (April; Muir); Lautoka, "exceedingly common on land 

 recently under cotton " (Knowles). 



A var. occurs with the scutellum immaculate black. The 



labium extends to the middle of the fourth sternite (in Stal's 



sense). 



Fam. MY0D0CHID.E. 



29. Graptostethus servus (Fabricius) Stal, 1873 op. cit. xii., 117. 

 "Fiji." Also distributed over the Oriental and Ethiopian 



Regions and Mediterranean Subregion of the Palearctic. 



30. G. vitiensis, sp.nov. 



Allied to G. servus (Fabr.), but distinguished by the long 

 labium, which extends well beyond the hind coxas, and by the 

 black head and bucculae. Black, with sparse, very short, pale 

 yellowish-grey pubescence; vertex without a red spot at base,* 

 bucculse black. Pronotum red with a large black trilithon-like 

 mark. Beneath black, the prosterna and propleura yellowish (or 

 reddish laterally) with a black transverse stripe which broadens 

 at each end suddenly; ambulacra, posterior and lateral margins 

 of the pleura, and the pleurites, yellowish, or reddish. The 



* In one example, there is a very faint pale red speck at the basal margin, 

 but there is not the slightest trace in the others, even when treated with 

 alcohol, as directed by Stal. 



