274 HEMIPTEUA OF JAPAN— THLEIL 



long as the posterior lobe of the prouotum without the scutellura, sec- 

 ond joint ii little more than one half the length of the first, the shorter, 

 the fourth slenderly tapering, nearly as long as the second. Pronotum 

 (U'pressed, strongly carinated, slenderly margined with yellow and 

 with a yellow stripe on middle of anterior lobe, jjosterior lobe uneven, 

 the exterior margin and middle line black; scutellum rusty-fulvous 

 behind, bounded by a reflexed black margin; humeral angles tumid, 

 blackish, l)roadly bordered exteriorly with yellow; pectus grayish sil- 

 very, the antepectus entirely yellow. Coxa* with a large yellow spot, 

 trochanters and base of femora also yellowish; pleura with a continu- 

 ous broad black stripe superiorly. Legs very long, blackish-brown. 

 Hcmelytra a little shorter than the abdomen, brown, with the veins 

 black. Tergum black, with the exterior raised margin yellow, the 

 apical portion with two ])a]e lines, the genital segments nuirgined with 

 i'nlvous, apical processes slender, a little longer than the genital seg- 

 ments; venter bluish-gray, with a stout fulvous carina on the middle 

 line, the last segment deeply excavated, bordered with fulvous, the 

 two genital segments fulvous and hairy; the lateral submargin inter- 

 ru])tedly black posteriorly. 



Length to end of venter, 23 mm.; width of pronotum, .'U mm. 



Type.—^o. 3105, U.S.N.M. 



Two males are in the collection. 



Family NEril)^. 



LACCOTREPHES JAPONENSIS, Scott. 

 Laccotrepheiijapotieiisis, Scon, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., 1874, p. 430. 



Four specimens are in the collection from southern Jai)an. 



RANATRA CHINENSIS. Mayr. 



lianatra chinensis, Mavu, jVuvara Keise. Hem., \\. ltd, \i\. v, fig. 5!). 



One specimen agreeing exactly with types from China is in the col- 

 lection. 



RANATRA BRACHYURA, Horvath. 

 lianatra hradnjuru, lloiiVATii, Tt-rmesz. Frozetek., lS7!t, HI, p. 10, NO. 73. 



A broken specimen is in the collection. 



Family BELOSTOMATID.E. 



BELOSTOMA DEYROLLII, Vuillef. 

 Belontoma dcyroUli, \'uili.ef, Auu. 8oc. Knt., France, 1864, ]>. 141. 



Three specimens are i)resent. This is acomnion species in the waters 

 of southern Japan. 



