HEMIPTERA— HBTEROPTERA. 



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acetabulae and lateral angle of propleuron ferruginous, disc of propleuron black. 

 Scutellum ferruginous shading to blackish towards base, pilosity as on pronotum 

 but with a few long erect hairs. Meso- and meta-pleura black, acetabulae 

 ferruginous ; posterior lateral angular lobe of metapleuron, white. Hemielytra 

 greyish- white, semi-hyaline, with a few scattered erect hairs especially on clavus, 

 punctures brown ; membrane hyaline. Venter dark, shining ferruginous 

 brown with short depressed silvery hairs more or less scattered on disc, but in 

 distinct patches along lateral margins of segments ; hairs much longer and more 

 dense along posterior margin of seventh ventrite, the posterior lateral angles 

 of which are greyish and more or less hyaline. Legs bright yellow apices of tarsi 

 and claws brown. 



First segment of antenna slightly incrassate, second and third segments 

 linear but thickest at apices, fourth segment fusiform ; relative lengths of seg- 

 ments : 16 : 29 : 20 : 36. 



Total length : o 2-8 mm., 9 3-0 mm. Breadth across humeral angles : 

 ^ 1-2 mm., $ 1-4 mm. 



Tutuila :— 2,141 ft., 2 (including type), and 1 $, 22.ix.1918 (Kellers) ; 

 1,000 ft., 1 13.X.1918 (Kellers). 



Subfamily Rhypaeochrominae. 

 32. Clerada * apicicornis Sign. 



Clerada apicicornis Signoret in Maillard's Notes sur Vile de la Reunion, Ins. {Annexe J, Hemipteres), 

 p. 28, 1862. 



Clerada apicicornis Kirkaldy, Proc. Haw. Ent. Soc, I, p. 151, 1907. 



Upolu : — Apia : 1 specimen, 17.vii.l924, 1 specimen, xii.1924, and 1 specimen, 

 X.1925. 



Apparently Holotropical in distribution. Recorded from Venezuela, Mexico? 

 Cuba, Jamaica, St. Vincent, Seychelles, Reunion, Bengal, Ceylon, Siamese 

 Malay States, Indo-China, Celebes, Queensland, Hawaii, Samoa, and Society 

 Is. (Raiatea), but strangely enough not from Fiji. Species of the genus Clerada 

 are known to inhabit the nests of rodents and other small mammals. 



* Clerada mdnuta China {Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., (9), XIV, p. 435, 1924), described from a 

 specimen taken in Rodriguez, in the Mascarene region, is apparently identical with Reclada moesta 

 B. White {Ann. Nat. Hist., (5), I, p. 370, 1878), a Hawaiian species, the type of which has now 

 been examined. This is a most extraordinary case of discontinuous distribution. 



