THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 209 



A NOTE ON THE SPECIES OF MICRONECTA OCCURRING 

 IN INDIA AND CEYLON (HEMIPTERA). 



BY G. \V. KIRKALDY, HONOLULU, H. ISLANDS. 



In the "Fauna of British India " (Vol. Ill, 50-51, 1906), Mr. 

 Distant has redescribed two species only of this genus from India and 

 Ceylon, thus omitting six previously described, three of them being old 

 and well established. 



Eleven species are now known to me from these countries, one being 

 now diagnosed and three left to a future time. 



1. albi/rofis, Motsch., =\\ striata^ Fieber, = — ovivora, Westvv., = 



siva^ Kirk. 



2. grisea, Fieber. 



3. haliploides, Horvath. 



4. ffiaiabarica, Kirk. 



5. niemonides, Kirk. 



6. M-iiotata^ Kirk., =|| lineata^ Fieber, = notata. Kirk., 1905 (by 



misprint). 



7. pimctata, Fieber. 



8. iheLxi?iot\ Kirk. 



Mtcronecta malabarica, sp. nov. — The general characters are those of 

 M. albifro7is, but the tegminal picturation is very faint ; there is no trace 

 of a transverse line on the distinctly longer pronotum, and the interior 

 margin of the vertex is also in a direct line with that of the eyes. Length, 

 4 mill. 



Hab. — India, Malabar Coast. 



P. S. — When my list of the known species of Micro7iecia was 

 published (Ent. News, 1905, p. 261), I had not heard of five species 

 published the same year, viz.: 



1. qiiadristrigata, Breddin, from Java, 



2. ludibtmda, " " Java. 



3. /iigita?is, '' " Java and Celebes. 



4. pardalina, " " Java. 



5. inflatula^ " " Java. 



I also omitted hydroporina (Sigara), Von der Decken, 1873, from 

 East Africa. 



I have now in the press descriptions of two new forms, pallida and 

 micra, from Australia, so that the total number of species is now 47, of 

 which perhaps 42 or 43 are valid. It is safe to predict that ultimately 

 some hundred species or so will be known. 



