HEMIPTERA— HETEROPTERA. 



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10. Piezodorus rubrofasciatus (F.). 



Cimex nibrofasciatus Fabricius, Mant. Ins., II, p. 293, 1787. 



Cimex hybneri Gmelin, Syst. Nat. (ed. XIII), p. 2151, 1789. 



Eaphigaster oceanicus Montrouzier, Ann. Soc. Linn. Lyon, (2), XI, p. 224, 1864. 



Piezodorus rubrofasciatus Stal, Svensk. Vet.-Ak. Handl., VII, no. 11, p. 32, 1868. 



Piezodorus hybneri Kirkaldy, Cat. Hemipt. Het., I, p. 136, 1909, full synonymy given. 



Piezodorus rubrofasciatus Cheesman, Trans. Ent. Soc. London, 1927, p. 155. 



Upolu : — Apia: 1 specimen, 21.viii.l924 (Armstrong), 1 specimen, vi.l925. 

 Widely distributed over the Palaeotropical Region, and extending from East 

 Africa through the Indian and Malayan Regions to Tahiti. 

 . Kirkaldy quotes Synanthereae as food plants. 



Family Coreidae. 

 Subfamily Coreinae. 



11. Mictis profana (F.) f. crux Dall. 



Lygaeus profana Fabricius, Syst. Rhyng., p. 211, 1803. 

 Mictis crucifera Leach, Zool. Misc., I, p. 92, pi. 40, 1814. 

 Anisoscelis abdominalis Guerin, Voy. Coq. Zool., II, p. 176, 1838. 

 Cerbus crucifera H.S., Wanzen Ins., VI, p. 60, fig. 622, 1842. 

 Myctis profanus Westwood, Hope Cat. Hemipt., II, p. 10, 1842. 

 Mictis crux Dallas, List Hemipt. Het. Brit. Mtis., II, p. 405, 1852. 



Nematopus profana Montrouzier, Ann. Sci PJiys. Nat. Agric. Indust. Lyon, (2), VII, pt. 1, p. 102, 

 1855. 



Mictis profanus Kirkaldy, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S. Wales, XXXIII, p. 352, 1908. 



Upolu : — Apia : 1 specimen, 20.ix.l924 (Armstrong) ; Aleipata, Lalomanu 

 1 specimen, xi.l924. 



Savaii : — Safune : 1 specimen, lowlands to 1,000 ft. (Bryan). 

 Tutuila :— Pago Pago : 1 larva, 0-300 ft. (Kellers). 



Originally described by Dallas from Samoan specimens under the name 

 Mictis crux ; since regarded by Distant and Dallas as a variety of the more 

 widely distributed Mictis profana, which is distributed tliroughout the Austro- 

 Oriental and Australasian Regions, including New Hebrides, New Caledonia, 

 Loyalty Is., Friendly Is., and Fiji. 



