Catacanthus

Usinger, Robert L., 1946, Hemiptera Heteroptera of Guam, Insects of Guam II, Honolulu, Hawaii: Bernice P. Bishop Museum, Bulletin 189, pp. 11-103 : 22-23

9. Catacanthus species.

The head and appendages are missing. It is dark bluish black above with a striking, arcuate, transverse white fascia on the pronotum. This fascia is widest at the middle where it nearly touches anterior margin. It tapers laterally to humeri. The edges of pronotum, claval suture, embolar vein, and margins of corium are narrowly pale, the hind angles of connexival segments and extreme edges are dark, the narrow outer edges of connexivum are pale, the broad connexival plates are entirely black. The membrane is dark brown with a broad apical spot pale. The under surface is mostly pale, ochraceous. The abdominal spine extends forward between the front coxae and is subacute and slightly turned upward at tip. The male genital capsule is relatively small and is produced laterally as thick subrounded lobes rather than as subflattened, lamellate lobes such as occur in taiti Distant and viridicatiis Distant. Size: length from anterior margin of pronotum to tip of abdomen, 17.5 mm.; width across humeri, 10 mm.

Mt. Alifan, June 27, one dead specimen, Usinger .

This is almost certainly a new species but I do not feel justified in proposing a new name on such a fragmentary specimen.