1963] 
Lodos — Euryg aster 
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stripe near distal end ; paratergite 9 large and some distance from 
the margin of seventh sternal segment; valvifer II triangular. Legs 
light brown; tibiae almost straight and with a few very small and 
obscure spines; at the apex, spines become closer and with few hairs; 
tarsus normal for the genus, underside with thin, dense and short 
hairs; second tarsal segment shortest; third with a few hairs at apex; 
claws dark brown 3/4 from the base (fig. 2). 
Size (female): length 12 mm.; maximum width across abdomen 
7.2 mm., head: length 2.4 mm.; width 2.9 mm.; vertex 2.5 mm., 
pronotum: length 2.7 mm.; width 7 mm., scutellum: length 6.7 
mm. ; width 5 mm. 
Holotype: female, Turkey, Izmir-Bornova, 14.V.1958 (N. Lodos), 
in the British Museum (Natural History). 
Habitat : the type, a female was found by me by sweeping on wild 
graminaceous plants in a wooded hill formation. It seems to be a very 
rare species and the male is unknown. 
This new species is related to Eurygaster integriceps Put. by ex- 
ternal appearance but can easily be distinguished by its distinct prom- 
inence on the pronotum, shorter scutellum, distinctly rounded con- 
nexivum and particularly the structure of the female genitalia. I 
name this species after the outstanding British authority on the 
Hemiptera, Dr. W. E. China, who has helped me a great deal in my 
entomological work. 
Solenostethium bilunatum (Lefebure) 
Scutellera bilunulata Lefebure 1827, Mem. Soc. Linn. Paris, :102; pi. 5, f. 5. 
This species was first recorded from Turkey by Fieber (1861) as 
Coeloglossa ledereri without specific location. Lethierry and Severin 
(1893) also listed it in the same way. Oshanin (1912) was the 
only one to express the locality more definitely as “Turkei (in Europa)” 
which at that time was Thrace. So far as is known Solenostethium 
bilunatum (Lef.) is a Mediterranean element which extends from 
Tunisia, Morocco, Algeria, Cyprus, Turkey and Syria. It is obvious 
that it could not have existed so far north as Oshanin states. Its 
northern range was not previously even as far north as Izmir (Tur- 
key). This species has remained known to Turkey only from these 
early records until the present time. 
The writer now is able to confirm the presence of this species in the 
Turkish fauna. I have collected 14 female and 11 male specimens at 
Explanation of Plate 15 
Fig. 1. Eurygaster chianai n. sp. female (holotype). 
