HEMIPTERA— HETEROPTERA. 



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Subfamily Saicinae. 



53. Polytoxus simllis, sp. ii. (Text-fig. 26). 



Polytoxus, sp., Kirkaldy ?, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S. Wales, XXXIII, p. 368, 1908. 



Colour. — Rather variable. Head above pale fulvous suiJused with pale 

 red, especially towards apex, below more or less infuscate ; anterior lobe between 

 eyes also slightly infuscate in some specimens ; eyes black ; first segment of 

 antennae fulvous tinted with red at base, remaining segments fuscous with pale 



Text-fiCt. 26. — Polytoxus similis, sp. n. : a, lateral view of head and pronotum ; b, hemielytron ; 



c, terminal view of abdomen. 



pubescence ; rostrum fulvous yellow. Pronotum fulvous yellow the anterior 

 lobe darker and lightly suffused with dull red-brown, and with the median line 

 slightly infuscate ; posterior lobe with a broad median pale fuscous stripe ; 

 humeral spines yellow with apices infuscate ; propleura sordid yellow, with a 

 short but broad fuscous stripe laterad of, but touching acetabulae. Meso- 

 and meta-nota fuscous the spines fulvous with apices fuscous ; meta- and 



