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Subfamily Corizinae. 

 18. Leptocoris insularis Kirk. 



Leptocoris insularis Kirkaldy, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S. Wales, XXXIII, p. 353, 1908. 



Upolu : — Apia: 1 specimen, 18.ix.l922 (Armstrong): Malololelei : 2 speci- 

 mens, 25.ii.1924. 



This species has previously been recorded only from. Fiji. 



Family Dysodiidae Renter. 



19. Mezira membranacea (Fabr.) 



Acanthia membranacea Fabricius, Ent. Syst., SuppL, p. 526, 1797. 



Aradus albipennis Fabricius, Syst. Rhyng., p. 118, 1803. 



Aradus memhranaceus Fabricius, Syst. Rhyng., p. 118, 1803. 



Brachyrynchus orienialis Laporte, Essai Hemipt., p. 54, 1832. 



Aradus lugubris Boisduval, Voy. Astrolabe, Ent., II, p. 642, pi. XI, f. 24, 1835. 



Brachyrhynchus memhranaceus Stal, Kongl. SvensJc. Vet.-Ak. Handl., VII, no. 11, pp. 96, 1868. 



Upolu : — Apia : 5 specimens and 2 larvae, 14.iv.l922 (Armstrong) ; 1 

 specimen, 10.ix.l923 and 3 specimens. 12.ix.l923 (Swezey and Wilder) ; 10 

 specimens, ii.l924, 4 specimens, iv.l924, 8 specimens, x.1924, 1 specimen, xii.1924 ; 

 Malololelei : 8 specimens, 24.ii.1924, 1 specimen, 22.iii.1924, 4 specimens, 2,000 ft., 

 12.iii.l924 ; Lalomanu : 3 specimens, xi.l924 ; Aleipata : 1 specimen, iv.l924 ; 

 Vailima : 1 specimen, vi.l924. 



Savaii : — Safune : 4 specimens, 1, 10, and 12.V.1924 (Bryan) ; Fagamalo : 



1 specimen, viii.1924. 



Tutuila : — Pago Pago: 3 specimens, 9.ix.l923, and 1 specimen, 30.ix.l923 

 (Swezey and Wilder) ; 2 specimens, 16 and 19.iv.l924 (Bryan) ; 1 specimen, 

 iv.l928 (Kellers) ; Leone Road : 1 specimen, 7.ix.l923 (Swezey and Wilder) ; 



2 specimens, 29.iii.1926 (Judd) ; Fagasa : 12 specimens, 9.ix.l923 (Swezey and 

 Wilder). 



Manua Is. : — Tau : 1 specimen, 20.ii.l926 (Judd). 



Widely distributed over the Indian, Indo-Chinese, Malaysian and Philippine 

 subregions. 



It is rather surprising that this species should occur so commonly in Samoa, 

 where one would rather expect to find the Austro-Oriental Mezira thoracoceras 

 Montr., which has been recorded from Papua, New Caledonia, N. Australia, and 

 Fiji. M. membranacea, however, is easily distinguished from M. thoracoceras 

 by the equally long second and third antennal segments, the third segment 

 being distinctly longer than the second in the latter species. 



