406 



saldid.t:. 



posteriorly, corium longer than abdomeu, membrane with four 

 long siibparallel cells : legs slender, femora distinctly incrassate at 

 base. 



Fig. 259. — J'allcriola grecni. 



1351. Valleriola greeni, ,sp. w. 



Black, opaque ; basal joint of 

 antennje, posterior lateral margins, 

 basal margin, and a central longi- 

 tudinal line on posterior area of 

 prouotum. apex of scutellum, a basal 

 streak to clavus and apices of claval 

 suture, lateral margins, two central 

 and two subapical spots to corium. 

 femora, and posterior segmental 

 margins luteous; longitudinal streaks 

 and apices to femora piceous. 



Length 5| millim. 



Hub. Ceylon; Pex'adeniya(6rr(?cy(). 



Caught running about on sides of 

 a vessel containing stagnant \\'ater. 

 Very active ; uses its wings readil\" 

 {E.'E. Green). 



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Subfamily II. LEPTOPINtE. 



As already pointed out, the three ocelli between. tlie eyes suffi- 

 ciently separate this subfamily from the Saldino. The Leptopinae 

 are few in number, principally distribnted in the Palccarctic Re- 

 gion, and represented in Madagascar. Being small, obscure, and 

 little collected insects, nothing can be definitely stated as to their 

 distribution. 



Genus LEOTICHIUS. nov. 



Type, L. glcmcopis, Dist. 



iJistributmi. Bui'ma. 



Elongately subovate ; head somewhat short and broad, eyes very 

 large, dilated, convexly rounded and upwardly reflexed ; ocelli 

 three ; antennse with the first and second joints short, incrassate, 

 subspinous, third and fourth joints slender and subequal, fifth a little 

 thickened ; pronotum strongly anteriorly constricted, widened on 

 each side behind the constriction, the anterior mai'gin a little convex, 

 the lateral angles prominent and rounded, their apices obtusely 

 subacntely recurved, posterior lateral margins oblique and a little 

 concave, basal margin short, transverse ; scutellum small, its apex 

 strongly tuberculously raised ; corium with the lateral margin 

 sinuately waved, its apical margin sinuate, membrane passing the 



