RANATRA. 315 



sinuate ; scutellum equilateral, furnished with two rugosities ; 

 hemelytra beyond middle distiuctly ampliated, subsequently 

 roundly narrowed ; clavus and corium ' counatis,' membrane 

 rudimentary ; wings short, extended somewhat beyond middle of 

 abdomen ; legs of moderate size, anterior femora incrassated, 

 beneath sulcated, anterior tibia a little shorter than the femora, 

 moderately curved ; abdominal appendices short." (Sttd.) 



Differs principally from LaccotrepJics by the posterior margin of 

 the pronotum being much less sinuate, and by the rudimentary 

 membrane. 



3090. Borborophyes erutus, Montand. Aim. Mns. Xat. Hun ff.^9lO, 

 p. 164. 



Dr. Montandon has described this species from the Khasia 

 Hills and the type is contained in the U.S. Nat. JNIus. AVashington, 

 so that I have been unable to see it. Montandon has given a 

 very faithful and detailed description, occupying two and a half 

 pages, which is beyond the scope of this publication. I hope 

 eventually to see and figure an example, when a more condensed 

 diagnosis will suffice. 



Genus RANATRA. (Vol. Ill, p. 19.) 



Dr. Montandon (Ann. Mus. Nat. Hung. 1909, p. 66) expressed 

 the opinion that in this work I had probably confounded under 

 the name of B. filiformis, Fabr., the closely allitxl forms of 

 B. longipes, Stal, B. vurijjes, Stal, and B. atropha, Montaud.* _ I 

 had not at that time seen these species, but receiving fresh species 

 recently I sent them for identification to Montandon who kindly 

 complied with my request, so that I now possess these identified 

 by himself and proving that I had not made the confusion he 

 suspected. In Ann. Mus. Nat. Hung. 1910, p. 165, my friend 

 also stated he could not accept my uniting B. sordiduJa, Dohru 

 with B. unicolor, Scott = B. bntchjura, Horv. This, however, I 

 had not done in this publication (vol. iii, p. 22), though I had, 

 on insufficient material, suggested it previously and elsewhere.' 



3091. Ranatra loiigipes, Stdl, Ofv. Vd.-Ak. Fdrh. 1861, p. 203; 

 Montana. Ami. Soc. Ent. Fr. Ixxvi, p. 56 (1907). 



" This species is easily distinguished by its very long legs, the 

 posterior femora reaching the extremity of the abdomen in the 6 , 

 being a little shorter in the $ ; the eyes are strongly projecting, 

 large, a little transverse, with the intraocular space a little 

 narrower than the eye; the head convex without a pointed 

 tubercle (though sometimes elevated on the middle of the 



* Since united to R. varipes, Stal. 



