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INSECTS OF SAMOA. 



, the posterior lobe three times (21) as long as anterior collar. Scutellum equi- 

 lateral ; disc strongly impressed and surrounded apically by a V-shaped ridge. 

 Hemielytra extending well beyond apex of abdomen, membrane with three basal 

 cells containing auxiliary veinlets, wing cell with a distinct hamus arising from 



^ connecting vein close to decurrent vein. Front femora moderately incrassate, 

 unarmed, beneath densely pilose, distinctly longer than head and pronotum 

 together, and slightly longer than tibiae. Middle and hind legs long and slender, 

 the hind femur extending slightly beyond apex of abdomen. Relative lengths 

 of femur, tibia and tarsus : front leg 85 : 75 : 14 ; middle leg 85 : 83 : 14 ; hind 

 leg 120 : 150 : 17. Venter strongly delimited from connexivum by a deep 

 furrow ; sternites without lateral glabrous spots ; left paramere in male similar 

 in general shape to that of R. capsiformis but much longer and narrower and 

 comparatively much smaller. 



Total length : 8-5, $ 9-5 mm. 



Upolu : — Malololelei : 2 adult specimens and 1 larva, 24.ii.1924, 2 specimens, 

 25.ii.1924, 3 specimens, 10.iii.l924, 4 specimens, vi.l924, 2 specimens, 17.vi.l924, 

 2 specimens, 20.vi.l924, 1 specimen, 28. vi. 1924, 1 specimen, 14-30. vi. 1924, 3 

 specimens (including type), 28. xi. 1924, 1 specimen, l.i.l925, 4 specimens, 21. iv.l925. 



Savaii : — Salailua : 1 specimen, 19.V.1924 (Bryan). 



Very variable in colouring but readily distinguished from all other species 

 of Reduviolus by the multiannulate femora and tibiae and the narrow elongate 

 form. Apparently most closely related to the subgenus Stenonabis Renter, but 

 differing in origin of wing cell hamus and in the longer pronotum with non- 

 punctate posterior lobe. 



Family Cimicidae. 



60. Cimex hemlpterus Fabr. 



Cimex hemipterus Fabricius, Syst. Rhyng., p. 113, 1803. 



Acanthia rotundatus Signoret, Ann. Soc. Ent. France, (2), X, p. 540, pi. 16 fig. 2, 1852. 



Acanthia macrocephala Fieber, Europ. Hemipt.., p. 135, 1861. 



Klinophilos horrifer Kirkaldy, Bull. Liverpool Mus., II, p. 45, 1899. 



Cimex hemipterus Horvath, Congres International Zoologie, Monaco, p. 297, 1914. 



Clinocoris hemipterus Rothschild, Bull. Ent. Research, IV, p. 345, 1914. 



Cimex rotundatus Buxton and Hopkins, Researches in Polynesia and Melanesia, 1-TV, p. 54, 1927. 



Upolu : — Apia : 2 1 ^ and 3 larvae, " in Chinese quarters," x.1925. 

 Distributed throughout the Ethiopian, Mascarene, and Oriental Regions, in 



