Rhynchota .. . length ; anterior femora very long, about half as longagain as the trochanters, bidentate beneath a little beyond themiddle; the appendices a little less in length than the abdomen,the pronotum about or nearly half the length of the abdomen,more enlarged behind than in front, with the posterior areaswollen for about two-fiftlis from base ; the abdomen above gene-rally clear, a little reddish in the southern examples, frequentlybrown, as in an example from China. (Monfandon.) Length excl. abd. append. 22 millim. Hab. Bengal; Eajshai, Calcutta. Lueknow.—Malay Borne
Rhynchota .. . length ; anterior femora very long, about half as longagain as the trochanters, bidentate beneath a little beyond themiddle; the appendices a little less in length than the abdomen,the pronotum about or nearly half the length of the abdomen,more enlarged behind than in front, with the posterior areaswollen for about two-fiftlis from base ; the abdomen above gene-rally clear, a little reddish in the southern examples, frequentlybrown, as in an example from China. (Monfandon.) Length excl. abd. append. 22 millim. Hab. Bengal; Eajshai, Calcutta. Lueknow.—Malay Borneo. China. 3092. Eanatra varipes, Stdl, Ofv. Fork. 1861, p. 203; Mayr,Reise Nov., Hem. p. 191 (1866); Montancl Ann. Soc. Ent. Ft:Ixxvi, p. 57 (1907) ; id. Ann. Mus. Nat. Hung. 1909, p. 66, Eanatra atropha, Montancl. Bull. Soc. Sci. Bucarest, xii, p. 105(1903). Ranatra varipes var. atropha, Montand. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. Ixxvi,p. 57 (1907). Very near JR. Jongipes, Stal and from the same localities, hardly. Fig. 177.—Eanatra varipes, var. to be separated except by the posterior legs and the abdominalappendices which are shorter; the length is proportionally less,. RAXATRA. 317 and the intraocular space a little less constricted. The pronotuiiiis of the same form in the two species, and in varipts, Stal, onealso finds examples which only differ from the typical form bythe subcylindrical pronotum, it being scarcely more enlarged behindthan in front, and which I had described under the name ofE. atropha, Mont,; at pi-esent I do not propose to consider thisas more than a simple variety of varipcs, Stfil. (Montandon.) I figure a black example witli an ochraceous fascia at innermargin of eyes, which Dr. Montandon has returned to melabelled varipes, Stal, var. Length excl. abdom. append. 19 to 20 milhm. Hah. Nepal; Khatmandu. Bengal; Fort Canning, ; Weligama (6rVfgn). Burma; Moulmein. 3093. Ranatra distant!, Montmid. Bull. Soc. Set. Bucarest, xix p G52(1910). Ash
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