The followiug species have not been seen by the writer and 

 probably should be included in the Divison Emesaria : — 



1015. Emesa ? invisiblis, Dohr7t, Lijin. E»t. xiv, pp. 217 & 219, pi. i, 



f. 7 (1860). 



Fuscous, opaque ; head flavous with a lateral fulvous vitta ; eyes 

 fulvous ; prothorax with apical medial guttae and base of meso- 

 thorax obsoletely white; metathorax longer than prothorax, 

 mesothorax smallest ; abdominal apex flavous, segments with a 

 single basal flavous spot ; legs brown, annulated with flavous, the 

 anterior a little shorter than the thorax ; antennae unicolorous, 

 opaque ; rostrum flavous, shining, laterally obsoletely fulvous. 



Length 33 millim. 



Hah. QeyXon {fide Dolirn). 



1016. Emesa filum, Fahr. (Cimex) Gen. p. 301 (1776) ; id. (Cimex) 



Spec. Ins. ii, p. 376 (1781); id. (Cimex) Mant. ii, p. 308 (1787) ; id. 

 (Gerris) Entom. Syst. iv, p. 191 (1794) ; id. (Emesa) Syst. Rhyny. 

 p. 263 (1803) ; Dohrn (Emesa), Linn. Ent. xiv, p. 230 (1860). 



" Fuscous, hemelytra abbreviated, legs very long ; antennaj as 

 long as body ; thorax cylindrical, linearly fuscous ; abdomen 

 elongate, cylindrical, fuscous ; legs very long, palely annulated." 



Bah. " India orientalis." 



? Eme.m Jilum, Brulle, Hist. Ins. ix, p. 312, pi. xxiv, . 1 (1835); 

 Blanch. Hist. Ins. iii, p. 99 (1840). 



Blan chard states that the Fabrician species and the one described 

 and figured as such by Brulle are distinct. He also gives the 

 habitat as " Indes-orientales " and Mauritius. 



Division METAPTERAEIA *. 

 Metapteraria, Stdl, En. Hem. iv, p. 93 (1874). 



Anterior femora spined beneath from near middle ; head not 

 prominently narrowed posteriorly ; posterior femoi'a nearly 

 reaching or passing abdominal apex ; head between antenuiferous 

 tubercles distinctly spinous or tuberculous. 



Genus ISCHNONYCTES. 



Ischnouyetes, Stal, En. Hem. iv, p. 94 (1874). 

 Emesa, Lucas, Explor. Aly., Zool. iii, p. 49 (1849). 



Type, /. harharus, Lucas, a Southern Palaearctic species. 

 Distrihution . Palaearctic, Ethiopian, and Oriental Kegions. 

 Head not pedunculate at base ; first joint of rostrum consider- 

 ably longer than the second ; postocular portion of head longer 



* Founded on tlie genus MetcrjjtcrHS, Costa, represented by a Palisearctic 

 species. 



