Some remarks ou the Keduviid subfamily 

 Holoptiliuae, aud ou tlie species 



PTILOCERUS OCHRACEUS Montandon 



BY 



G. W. KIRKALDYfi). 



With PI. 15. 



The Holoptilinae are a peculiar subfamily of the Beduviidae, 

 Dumbering some nine genera and. forty species, all of which 

 are palaeogeic. In his recent »Notes sur les Holoptiliuae« my 

 friend M. Moutandon considers it a good family. 



However, it retains all the fundamental characters of the 

 Reduviidae, i.e. the labial structure, the prosternai stridulating 

 apparatus, venation etc. 



Of the Biology of the Holoptilinae up to the present very 

 little has been recorded. Ptilone mediae) is known to be found 



') This paper is probably the last which Mr. Kirkaldy has written. The day 

 after he had sent me the M. S. he left Honolulu fur California. Soon after his 

 arrival there the sad news of his death reached me. Some points on Ptilocerus 

 ochraceus, about which I was in correspondence with Mr. Kirknldy, were 

 tlierefore left undecided, and I have tried, to the best of my ability, to supply 

 tlie missing informations. These will be found in a number of foot-notes, which 

 I have added to this paper. 



-) Montandon still retains the name Pdlocnemus for this, although I have 

 puinttd uut tliiit t!îc latter is a synonym oi' Piilocerus. for "Wcstwood, in 1838 



