RAXATRA. 



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and the intraocular space a little less constricted. The pronotuiii 

 is of the same form in the two species, and in varipts, Stal, one 

 also finds examples which only differ from the typical form by 

 the subcylindrical pronotum, it being scarcely more enlarged behind 

 than in front, and which I had described under the name of 

 E. atropha, Mont, ; at pi-esent I do not propose to consider this 

 as more than a simple variety of varipcs, Stfil." (Montandon.) 



I figure a black example witli an ochraceous fascia at inner 

 margin of eyes, which Dr. Montandon has returned to me 

 labelled varipes, Stal, var. 



Length excl. abdom. append. 19 to 20 milhm. 



Hah. Nepal ; Khatmandu. Bengal ; Fort Canning, Calcutta. 

 Ceylon; Weligama (6rVfgn). Burma; Moulmein. 



3093. Ranatra distant!, Montmid. Bull. Soc. Set. Bucarest, xix p G52 

 (1910). 



Ashy brown ; head with a distinct conical tubercle between the 



Fisr. 178.— Hanaira distanfi. 



eyes, the face Avith a strong central longitudinal ridge, the surface 

 very finely granulose ; prouotum about as long as the anterior 



