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the third and fourth joints subequal in length, second longest; 

 pronotum with the basal margin strongly concavely sinuate before 

 scutellum, the lateral margins oblique, a little sinuate, the anterior 

 margin about half the breadth bet^A•een posterior angles ; coriuiu 

 somewhat convexly rounded at costal margin ; scutellum foveately 

 impressed on disk ; rostrum reaching the posterior coxic ; tibiae 

 distinctly spinulose. 



Length 4| millim. 



Hah. Ceylon ; Madulsima {Bainhriyge-Fhtcher, Brit. Mus.). 



3000. Salda pusana, Dint. Aim. Soc. Ent. Behj. liii, p. 376 (1901)). 



Allied to S. Jlctdieri., Dist., but with the antennae and rostrum 

 wholly black ; legs black, base of anterior femora and more than 

 basal halves of intermediate and posterior femora, and basal 

 annulations to tibiae, ])ale ochraceous ; corium with the pale costal 

 margin narrowed and somewhat interrupted before apex, the spots 

 on subcostal area three in number ; antennae with the third joint 

 slightly longer than fourth, other structural characters as in 

 S. ffetcheri. 



Length 4| millii)i. 



Bah. Bengal; Lebong, 5000 feet (Ze/ro//). 



Mr. Lefroy sent me three specimens of this species (all un- 

 fortunately more or less mutilated in coudition) from the Pusa 

 collection. 



Subfamily LEPTOPIN^. (Vol. II, p. 40G.) 



Genus LEPTOPUS to replace Valleriola. 

 (Vol. II, p. 405.) 



Leptopus, Latr. Favi. nat. p. 423 (1825) ; Fieb. Eur. Hcon. ])p. 40 & 

 148 (1861) ; Oshaii. Verz. Pal. Hemipt. Ilcteropt. p. 603 (1008). 



Type, L. hoopis, Fourc. 



Bistribution. Palaearctic, Ethiopian, and Oriental liegions. 



The question of the distinction of Valleriola from Be^'tojms has 

 been disputed by Bergroth and somewhat amusingly assailed by 

 Eeuter. I relied on the number of the ocelli, accepted by Pieber, 

 ISaunders and his predecessors, and apparently uncontradicted, till 

 I had followed suit. However, now that so sound and ca])able an 

 authority as Oshaniu has given his adhesion to that view, 1 follow 

 his determination. The argument is of a taxonomical character.* 



* My views on tliis entomological eontroversj', whatever they may be worth, 

 may be found in the Wien. entomol. Zeit. xxvi, p. 327 (1907). 



