natural, history

Cligenes renneUensis sp. n.(Fig. I)MaleHead dark ferruginous, with whitish hairs apically; finely punctate in centre ofvertex; width 0.63 mm, length 0.38 mm; antennae with basal segment and secondsegment except extreme base and .apex, luteous; extreme base and apex of secondsegment and whole of third segment brown (fourth segment missing); first segmentof antennae extending for about half its length beyond apex of head; antennalmeasurements 0.34:0.57:0.42:? (missing); rostrum luteous, extending to middlecoxae.Pronotum completely dark brown: width 1.22, length 0.59; lateral margin slightlyimpressed behind middle; posterior margin deeply concave before scutellum: pronotumantero-dorsally with a slight collar; anterior lobe with rather fine scattered punctures;posterior lobe with denser and deeper punctures; punctures with short silveryhairs.Scutellum with basal half dark brown, apical half whitish-ochraceous; with finepunctures, sparser towards apex, the apical punctures being ferruginous; width0.74, length 0.72.Hemelytra extending slightly beyond tip of abdomen; clavus whitish-ochraceouswith extreme base and apex dark brown and with three rows of ferruginous punctures;corium with basal half whitish-ochraceous and whole of apical half darkbrown; with two rows of punctures adjacent to claval suture, a row along R - M andarea anterior to R -r- M regularly punctate; apical margin sinuate towards innerangle; membrane whitish-ochraceous and hyaline.Legs luteous; anterior femora armed ventrally with about eight minute spines.Abdomen dark ferruginous, rather shiny and with silky pubescence.Total length 2.8 mm.Holotype: J. Rennellis., Hutuna, 8. Nov. 1953 (J.D.BRADLEY) (Brit. Exp.). [BritishMuseum (Nat. Hist.)].Paratype: 1 cr, Hutuna 20.-24. Oct. 1953 (Brit. Exp.). [Zoological Museum, CopenhagenUniversity].This species is distinct from C. signandus Dist. and others in having the apicalhalf of the corium completely dark brown, instead of the typical four fuscous spots.\The pronotum is also characteristically completely dark brown and the scutellumhas only the basal half fuscous.SUMMARYI. Only one species of Lygaeidae. Diellches finitimus van Duz. has previously beenrecorded from Rennell Is. Similarly only Scopiastes lepidus \'entralis van Duz. hasbeen reported from Bellona Is., as far as is known.141