HEMIPTERA— HETEROPTERA. 



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Manua : — Tau : 1 specimen, 27.ix.1923 (Swezey and Wilder). 



Apparently widely distributed over the S. Pacific and recorded from the 

 Molluccas, New Guinea, New Caledonia, New Hebrides, Loyalty Is. (Lifu), 

 Woodlark Is. (Murua), Solomon Is., Fiji and Society Is. (Tahiti and Bora Bora). 



This species is known to feed on lepidopterous larvae, and on several 

 occasions Mr. Hopkins himself has seen specimens sucking caterpillars of the 

 butterfly Atella exulans. 



Subfamily Pentatominae. 

 8. Pegala biguttuia Haglund. 



Pegala biguttuia Haglund, Stettin Ent. Zeit., XXIX, p. 159, 1868. 



Pegala biguttuia Kirkaldy, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S. Wales, XXXIII, p. 349, 1908. 



Upolu : — Apia : 9 specimens, 14.vi.l924 (Armstrong), 1 specimen, ix.l924 ; 

 Aleipata : 1 specimen, iv.-v.I924. 

 Previously recorded from Fiji. 



9. Glaucias samoanus, sp. n. (Text-fig. 1). 



Colour. — More or less uniformly grass-green shading to emerald-green, 

 eyes grey, ocelli yellowish-white, lateral margins of head immediately in front 

 of eyes (broadly), posterior margin of eye, first segment of rostrum, the entire 

 lateral margin of pronotum, including reflexed carina (narrowly), basal third 

 of costal margin narrowly, and connexivum, bright yellow ; anterior lateral 

 margins of juga brown ; antennae, apex of tylus, labrum, second, third, and 

 fourth rostral segments, bright red ; the tarsi reddish-brown ; apical half of 

 claws, apex of rostrum and extreme posterior lateral angles of abdominal segments 

 black. Sternum, disc of venter, including basal tubercle, coxae and trochanters, 

 yellow ; rims of spiracles white ; femora and tibiae yellowish-green. Membrane 

 colourless hyaline, dorsal surface of abdomen emerald-green ; apices of tibiae 

 and tarsi covered with reddish-brown hairs. 



Structure. — Head above finely, transversally rugose, more or less punctate 

 between the ocelli ; underside smooth and shining, ocelli more than four times 

 as far from one another as from the eyes. Length of head compared with width 

 including eyes 9:11. Relative lengths of antennal segments 25 : 50 : 65 : 78 : 75. 

 Bucculae more than six times as long as gula, sinuate in outline, extending 

 nearly to base of head. Rostrum extending on to third (second apparent) 

 ventrite, relative length of segments 42 : 75 : 65 : 55. Pronotum and scutellum 



