1918.] C. A. Paiva : RliyncJiota from Barhuda I. ' 13 



Owing- to its bad condition I am not quite sure of the identity of this 

 specimen. Structurally it agrees with the description giyen by Distant. 



Recorded from Quetta ; Karachi ; Behar ; Assam : Sibsagar ; 

 Tranquebar ; Bombay ; Johore ; Phillippines. 



Family BELOSTOMATIDAE. 

 Sphaerodema molestum (Duf.) 



1863. A'pjMsus molediiim, Dufour, An7i. Soc. Ent. Fr., 1863, p. 395. 



1863. Nervinojis ruslicus, Dufour, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr., 1863, p. 399. 



1871. Diplonychus molestum, Mayr, Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, XXI. p. 437. 



1871. Diplonychus subrhombeus, Mayr, Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, XXI, p. 437. 



1906. Sphaerodema molestum, Distant, Faun. Brit. Ind. Rhyn. Ill, p. 36. 



Barkuda, in small pond in the middle of the island, 15-22-vii-16. 

 Recorded from Kashmir ; Calcutta tanks ; Malacca. 



Family NOTONECTIDAE. 



[All the species represented in the collection are abundant in the pond, 

 but Anisops niveiis is less so than the other two.] 



Anisops sardea, Herr.-Schaff. 



1775. ? Notonecta alba, Forskal, Descr. Amin. Orient., p. xxiii. 

 1837. Anisops nivea, Spinoret, nee Fabricius, Ess. Hem., p. 58. 



1851. Anisopis productus, Fieber, Rhynchotogr., p. 60. 



1852. Atiisops sardea, Herrich-Sehaffer, Wanz. Ins. IX, p. 40, f. 904. 

 1855. Anisops nalalensis, Stal, OJv. Vet.-Ak. Fork. XII, p. 89. 

 1865. Anisops j^roductus, Stal, Hem. Afr. Ill, p. 191. 



1870. Notonecta nanula. Walker, Zoologist, 1870, p. 2381. 



1904. Anisops sardea, Kirkaldy, Wien. ent. Zeit. XXIII, p. 1 14 et syn. 



1906. Anisops sardea. Distant, Faun. Brit. Ind. Rhyn. Ill, p. 45. 



Barkuda, in small pond in the middle of the island, 16-17-vii-14 

 15— 22-vii-1916, 25-vii— 4-viii-17. 



Recorded from Bombay ; Burma : Minhla. Widely distributed in 

 S. Palaearctic and Ethiopian Regions. 



Anisops niveus (Fabr.) 



1775. Notonecta nivea, Fabricius, Syst. Ent., p. 690. 



1798. Notonecta ciliata, Fabricius, Ent. Syst. Siq^jjl, p. 524. 



1851. Anisops hyalinus, Fieber, Abh. hohm. Ges. Wiss. (5) VII, p. 482. 



1868. Anisoj)s ciliatus, Stal, Vet.-Ak. Handl. VII, 11, p. 137. 



1873. Anisops pellucens, Gerstaecker, Van der Decken's Reise, III, 2, p. 424. 



1895. Anisops scutellaris, de Carlini, Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. XXXV, p. 123. 



1899. Anisojis niveus, Kirkaldy, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1899, p. 105. 



1904. Anisops niveus, Kirkaldy, Wien. ent. Zeit. XXIII, p. 118. 



1906. Anisopts nireus, Distant, Faun. Brit. hid. Rhyn. Ill, p. 46. 



Barkuda, in small pond in the middle of the island, 16-vii-14, 25- 

 vii — ■4-viii-17. 



Plea palleseens, Dist. 



1906. Plea palleseens. Distant, Faun. Brit. Ind. Rhyn. Til, p. 48. 



1910. Plea palleseens. Distant, var. Faun. Brit. Ind. Rhyn. V (Appendix), p. 336. 



Barkuda, in small pond in the middle of the island, 15-22-vii- 

 1916, 25-vii— 4-viii-1917. 



