128 TF.RKKSTNIAI. FAMILIES OF IIEMIPTKRA-IIKTFROrTF.R A 



^ Subfamily Oxycarenixae 



4. Microplax hissarietisis Iviritshenko 

 .1/. hissaricnsis Kiritsheiiku ( 1^'13\ 



Indian Tibet 1 9 . Between Tsak-shani^' and Isak-ra, mad trum Tso Moriri li> Tsu Kar, 

 altitude c. 4570 m. (c. 15,000 ft.), 1 Septcniher, 1"32. 



. The single specimen which is here identified witli .1/. Iiissaricnsis appears to aj^ree in all 

 essential points with the original description of this very distinct species. The only slight 

 differences concern the coloration of the elytra, which seems to be more intense in the speci- 

 men now before me, the dark marks on the corial nerves appearing to extend ontward 

 farther onto the disc of the corium than is indicated in the original descrijnion, while the 

 black base of the clavus fades to brown with black punctures apically. Since but a single 

 specimen is known it seems unwise to describe the present form as a subspecies. 



}f. hissariensis is, as Kiritshenko points out, sharply distinguished from its congeners 

 !)y its larger size (4.0-4.2 mm. in typical series, 3.94 mm. in the jjresent specimen ), the entirely 

 black antennae, and the brown-black apical corial angle ( J'lale \T1I, fig. 5). The typical 

 series was taken in northern Buchara. 



5. Bianchiclla udchnii^i Renter 



Indian Tibet. 1 9 Igu, in the Indus V'alley above I.eh, on the bark on Populu^ sp., 

 ahitude 3417 m. (11,210 ft.). 



The single brachypterous specimen obtained was one of several observed, l)ut extremely 

 difficult to capture owing to the rapidity of their movements. It has been comp.-ircd with 

 material determined by Kiritshenko in Ihe llritish Muscmn and ajipears to be identical. 

 Since this remarkable form has not been figured, a drawing is given in I'late \T11. lig. (i. 

 The species is known from .Siberia, Mongolia and iVorlhern China ( Oshanin, 1"12) but 

 curioush' enough a])pe;u's to be unrecorded trom l\ussian Turkestan: a second sjjecies 

 ( />'. saninilica Kiritshenko, 1"26) is, however, known from l'"uropcan Russia. 



Subfamily Aphaninae 



Tribe Gonionotaria 



6. Emblethis horvathiana sp. n. 



Ovate subparallel and rather robust, 2.25 times as long as wide. 



Color, dark greyish-yellow heavily punctured with black, antennae and legs darker than 

 head pronotum scutellum and elytra, eyes brown, apical joint of antennae, ocular margin of 

 head, base of scutellum showing through the pronotum and some irregular spots joining 

 punctures on the disc of the pronotum and the scutellum. black ; thorax below black, margins 

 of coxal articulations greyish-yellow, abdomen beneath brownish, darkening to piceous along 

 the midline. 



Head with eyes, seen from above, twice as wide as long (1.20, 0.58 mm. ), antenniferous 

 tubercles acutely rounded in lateral view, antennae 1.11 times as long as the maximum width 



