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impossible to gi^e true or any commensurate generic cliaracters 

 till other specimens ha\ e been received, as the figure alone is at 

 present available for study. 



988. Hemidiptera haeckeli. Leon, Jenmsch. Zeit. Nat. xxv,p. 13 (1890) ; 

 Beryr. Wien. ent. Zeit. xi, p. 169 (1892). 



The same remarks as made on generic characters apply to any 

 speciiic diagnosis. Leon describes the antennae as five-jointed, 

 but the true joints are clearly only four ; the absence of hemelytra 



Fig. Vol . — Heiiiidqitcra hceckeli. 



has been already discussed ; the I'ostrum is described as four- 

 jointed, second joint longer than first, third longer than second, 

 and fourth longer than first : legs formed for swimming, thickly 

 clothed with long hairs. 



Length 4 millim. 



Hah. Ceylon (Ilaed-d). 



