New and little known West African Miridae (Capsidae) (Hemiptera Heteroptera)

Abstract

The following descriptions are based on material collected by Mr. H. E. Box in the Gold Coast, during his work on insect pests of the cocoa plantations, and submitted to me for identification by the Imperial Institute of Entomology. Owing to war-time difficulties in obtaining various scientific journals, it is not always possible to make certain that a species is undescribed, so that although Mr. Box has collected several others which may be new, they have not been described here for that reason. The species now dealt with, however, are of particular interest either from the point of view of new distribution or from remarkable structure or striking colouration. Type specimens are preserved in the British Museum.