( 592 ) ERNST HARTERT'S EXPEDITION TO THE CENTRAL WESTERN SAHARA* XV. RHYNCHOTA HETEROPTERA. By Dr. G. HORVATH. De. Ernst Harteet, during his expedition to the Central Western Sahara, in 1912, also secnred some Ehynchota Heteropteva. This small collection, and some other specimens collected by the Hon. Walter Rothschild and Ernst Hartert dnring former trips to the Northern West-Sahara and Algeria, have kindly lieen presented to the Hnngarian National Musenm in Budapest. There are in these collections 72 specimens, belonging to 37 species, of which four are new to science. One of the latter represents also the tyjie of a new genus. As to the itinerary and the localities, see Nov. Zool. xx. p. 1-27, also xviii. pp. 456-471. CTDNIDAE. 1. Amaurocoris aspericoUis Pnt. 1 ?, Southern Oned Mya ; 1 9 , El-Golea. Described from Tunisia. FENTATOMIDAE. 2. Odontotarsus grammicus L. 5 (?{?, 1 ?, Hammam Rhira. This is the true Linnean si)ecies, which does not occnr in Europe and is confined to North Africa. 3. Graphosoma lineatum L. 6 <?<?, 2 ? ?, Hammam Rhira. This species was described by Liunams from " Mauritania." For a long time it has been overlooked and confounded with the European Gr. itulicum Miill. 1 have, however, shown that these two species are quite distinct, and that only Gr. lineatum is found in North Africa. This latter species has also been found in Sardinia and Corsica, and once in Sonthern France, near Toulon (see Ann. Mm. Hung. vii. lOUSt, pp. 14«-5U). 4. Aelia acuminata L. 1 ? , Hammam Rhir.a. A common widespread PaL-earctic species. 5. Staria lunata Hahn. 1 cj, Hammam Rhira. Not rare in Central and South Europe, North Africa, and West Asia. * See ataea, pp. 1-1B3, anrl pp. 444-469.
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