EANATEA. 21 



Length excl. abdom. append. 41 to 45 ; length abdom. append, 

 about 47 millim. 



Hah. Kashmir {Vienna Miis.). Calcutta {Ind. Miis.). Bombay 

 {Leitli 6,- Dixon). Nilgiri Hills {Hampson). 



1491. Ranatra chinensis, Mm/r, Verh. z.-b.Ges. Wien, xv,p. 446 (1865) ; 



id. Beise JS'oi:, Hem. p. 191, tab. v, fig. 59 (1866) ; Kirk. Sr 

 Montand. Entomoloqisti 1901, p. 51 ; Montand. Bull. Soc. Sci. 

 Bticarest, xii, p. 102 (1903). 



Ranatra valida, Stal, Hem. Fabr. \, p. 136 (1868). 



Ranatra pallidenotata, Scott, A. M. N. H. (4) xiv, p. 451 (1874). 



Allied to R. elongata, but darker in hue ; hemelytra and poste- 

 rior tibiae and tarsi fuscous ; abdomen above black, connexivum 

 ochraceous ; anterior area of pronotum broader and shorter ; 

 metasternum with a subtriaugular process, not foveately sulcate as 

 in R. elongata, but with a distinct central linear carinate elevation. 



Length body excl. abdom. append. 39 to 46 ; length abdom. 

 append, about 43 millim. 



Hah. Burma; ^■axQxwieQ {Fea,fide Montandon). China. Japan 

 {Lewis). 



1492. Ranatra feana, Montand. Bull. Soc. Ent. Ital. xxxv, p. 23 



(1903). 



Body robust, yellowish brown, brilliant, much paler beneath ; 

 hemelytra blackish on the lateral margins, jellow on the disk, the 

 apex of the membrane not extending quite to the apex of the 

 fifth abdominal segment ; abdominal appendages longer than 

 the body. 



This species — which I have not seen — is described by Mon- 

 taudon as differing from R. elongata in the more robust shape, 

 the eyes proportionally less developed, the hemelytra a little longer, 

 the femora posteriorly more robust, the metasternal process very 

 elevated on a median line and not in form of a plate as in 

 the Fabrician species, and the anterior femora not toothed near 

 their apices. From R. chinensis it differs by the shorter 

 hemelytra, which in Mayr's species cover the base of the sixth 

 abdominal segment, the dentation of the anterior femora is also 

 different. 



Length excl, abdom. append. 46 ; length abdom. append. 

 56 millim. 



Hah. Burma; Mandalay {Fea). 



1493. Ranatra filiformis, Fahr. Sh-ivt. af Naturh. Selsk. i. i, p. 228. 

 3 (1790); id. Ent. Syst. iv, p. 64. 1 (1794) ; Stdl, Hem. Fabr. 

 I, p. 135 (1868). 



Dull obscure brownish -ochraceous ; head and anterior area of 

 pronotum pale castaneous ; posterior area of sternum, legs, and 



