NOTES ON AUSTRALIAN AQUATIC HEMIPTERA — SKUSE. 43 



Family LiMNOBATiDiE. 

 Gemis Limnobates, Burm. 



LiMNOBATES STRIGOSA, sp. nOV. 



(Plate xi. figs. 1, 2.) 



Long narrow, brown or yellowish-brown ; head about the 

 length of the thorax, subcylinclrical, widened in front ; eyes 

 hemispherical, set in the sides of the head considerably behind 

 the middle. First joint of the antennae half the length and twice 

 the thickness of the second. Abdomen at its widest part scarcely 

 wider than the thorax. Tarsi black. 



Length. — 11 mm. 



Hab. — Sydney, and Botany Swamps, N.S.W. 



Appended are brief notes of species known to occur in this 

 country : — 



Family NoTONECTlDiE. 



Genus Corixa, Geoff. 

 Three species of Corixa common in the ponds about Sydney. 



Genus Sigara, Fabr. 

 Two species, rather abundant. 



Genus Anisops, Spin. 



Anisops australis, Stal. Ofr. K. V. Ak. Forh. xii. 190; Stal. 

 Bug. Resa, 267. 



Several other species abundant. 



Family Nepid^. 



Genus Nepa, Linn. 

 Nepa tristis, Stal. Ofr. K. V. Ak. Forh. xi. 241 ; Eug. Resa. 266. 



Hab. — Waterloo Swamps, N.S.W. 



Genus Ranatra, Fabr. 



Ranatra filiformis , Fabr. Skrivt. Nat. Selskal. i. 228 ; Ent. Syst. 

 iv. 64; Syst. Rhyn. 108; Schneid. Neu. Mag. i. 31 ; H. 

 Sch. Wanz. Ins. ix. 31, pi. 290, fig. H; Stal. Hem. Fabr. 2, 

 135. 



Generally distributed. 



