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APPENDIX. — NEPID^. 



vertex) but more or less distinctly prolonged triangularly in 

 front, with the gense narrowed from the eyes anteriorly and 

 closely united with the tylus which exceeds them in front by 

 half its length ; anterior femora very long, about half as long 

 again as the trochanters, bidentate beneath a little beyond the 

 middle ; the appendices a little less in length than the abdomen, 

 the pronotum about or nearly half the length of the abdomen, 

 more enlarged behind than in front, with the posterior area 

 swollen for about two-fiftlis from base ; the abdomen above gene- 

 rally clear, a little reddish in the southern examples, frequently 

 brown, as in an example from China." (Monfandon.) 



Length excl. abd. append. 22 millim. 



Hab. Bengal ; Eajshai, Calcutta. Lueknow. — Malay Peninsula. 

 Java. Borneo. China. 



3092. Eanatra varipes, Stdl, Ofv. Vet.-Ak. Fork. 1861, p. 203 ; Mayr, 

 Reise Nov., Hem. p. 191 (1866) ; Montancl Ann. Soc. Ent. Ft: 

 Ixxvi, p. 57 (1907) ; id. Ann. Mus. Nat. Hung. 1909, p. 66, 



Eanatra atropha, Montancl. Bull. Soc. Sci. Bucarest, xii, p. 105 

 (1903). 



Ranatra varipes var. atropha, Montand. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. Ixxvi, 

 p. 57 (1907). 



" Very near JR. Jongipes, Stal and from the same localities, hardly 



Fig. 177. — Eanatra varipes, var. 



to be separated except by the posterior legs and the abdominal 

 appendices which are shorter; the length is proportionally less,. 



