22 KEPID^. 



abdominal appendages pale ochraceous ; abdomen above pale 

 ocliraceous with a central longitudinal fuscous linear fascia ; 

 metasteriial process a little convex posteriorly, produced towards 

 the posterior coxae ; posterior pronotal angles with an inner 

 incision wliicb maizes them rather longitudinally prominent ; eyes 

 veiy prominent ; intermediate and posterior legs obscurely fus- 

 cously annulated, anterior legs a little less prominently annulate. 

 Length excl. abdom. append. 27; length abdoin. append, about 



23 milinn. 



Hah. Quetta, Karachi, Behar. Sibsagar {Brit. 2Ius.). Tranquebar 

 (CojjenJwgen Mas.). Bombay (DLvon). — Job ore. Philippines. 



<g»^ 1494. Ranatra sordidula, Dohm, &tett. ent. Zeit. xxi, p. 409 (18G0). 



Fuscous ; /'posterior areas of pronotnin and sternum, abdomen 

 beneath, anterior legs, and intermediate and posterior femora 

 dull ochraceous ; abdomen above ochraceous-brown, more or less 

 centrally longitudinally fuscous ; metasternal process ovate, a 

 little foveate, with a central longitudinal carinate line ; other 

 characters generally as in R. JiUformis, from which it is at once 

 separated by the different structure of the metasternal process, 

 darker coloration, and different colour of the legs and upper 

 surface of the abdomen. 



Length excl. abdom. append. 22 to 24; length abdom. append, 

 about 20 millim. 



Hab. Calcutta Tanks {Ind. Mus.). Ceylon {Green) ; Colombo 

 (Leivis). — Penang. Siam {Flower). 



1495. Eanatra gracilis, DaJl. Tr. E. S. 1849, p. 10. 



" Linear-elongate, ferruginous brown, obscure ; head with an 

 acute tubercle between the eyes ; scutellum with two small pits 

 on the disk towards the apex ; elytra reaching beyond the base 

 of the apical segment of the abdomen ; caudal setse short, rather 

 longer than the head and thorax together, slender, very slightly 

 pilose externally; abdomen beneath keeled, the keel not continued 

 beyond the base of the posterior legs : prosternum with two 

 longitudinal furrows ; legs very long and slender, subpilose ; 

 anterior thighs with six very faint teeth beneath at the base ; the 

 four posterior tibiae and tarsi simple." {Dallas.) 



Length excl. abdom. append. 34 miUim. 



Hah. Bhutan. 



M. Montandon (Bull. Soc. Sci. Bucarest, xii, p. 110) considers 

 that this species may be identical with, and take priority of, 

 R. parmata, Mayr, Eeise JN'ov., Hem. p. 192, tab. v, fig. 60, a, h 

 (1866), which was described from Java. R. gracilis may be at 

 once distinguished from any of the preceding species here 

 enumerated by the shortness of the abdominal appendages, which 

 are only about the length of the head and pronotum together. 

 I have not seen the species. 



