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NOTONECTID^. 



In this species the breadth and shape of the interocular space 

 (notoceplialon and st/nthlipes, Kirk.) cannot be relied on as a 

 specific character, if those specimens returned to me by Mr. Kirk- 

 aldy himself, labelled " N. glauca,^' are to be relied on. 



Length 14 to 17 millim. 



Hah. Kashmir, Sind Valley (Jide KirTcaldy). — Generally distri- 

 buted throughout the Palsearctic Region. 



It was taken by Dr. Stoliczka (var. marmorea, Fabr.) at Tarkand. 



Genus ENITHARES. 



Enithares, Spin. -Ess. Hem. p. 60 (1837) ; Stdl, Hem. Afr. iii, p. 190 



(1865) ; Kh-k. Wien. ent. Zeit. xxiii, p. 95 (1904). 

 Bothrouotus, Fieb. Rhjpichofoc/r. p. 46 (1851). 

 Enithara, Siyn. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. (3) viii, p. 971 (1860). 



Type, E. indica, Fabr. 



Distribution. Neotropical, Ethiopian, Australasian, and Oriental 

 Regions ; also found in China. 



This genus may be easily separated from Notonecta by the 

 shorter, transverse pronotum and by the foveately excavate ante- 

 rior angles of the same ; this is so apparent a character that minor 

 differences may be ignored in this work, which has a faunistic aud 

 not taxonomic inception. 



1519. Enithares indica, Fah: /Notonecta) Stjst. Rhjng. p. 103. 7 

 (1803); Stal (^mi\\Axe&), Hem. Fahr. i, p. 136 (1S68) ; Kirk. 

 Entomol. xxxiii, p. 10 (1900). 

 Notonecta abbreviata,- Walk. (MS.) in Tennent's ' Cet/lon' ed. 2, 

 i, p. 293 (1859) ; Kirby, J. Linn. Soc, Zool. xxiv, p. 126 (1891) ; 

 Kirk. (Enithares) Wien. ent. Zeit. xxiii, p. 109 (1904). 



Head and pronotum ochraceous, basal 

 area of pronotum more or less piceous ; 

 scutelluu) black, with a curved pale ochra- 

 ceous fascia (sometimes almost obsolete) on 

 each lateral area ; hemelytra black, basal 

 and lateral areas and usually an apical 

 spot to corium and apical area of mem- 

 brane more or less pale ochraceous ; body 

 beneath piceous, lateral margins and legs 

 pale ochraceous ; interocular space much 

 narrowed at base, ampliated anteriorly. 

 Length 8| to 10 millim. 

 Hah. Tranquebar. Bombay {Dixon). 

 Trivandrum. Ceylon {Green). Andaman 

 Islands {de JRoepstorff). — Java, Sumatra. 

 Frequents more or less stagnant water, paddv-fields, ditches, 

 &c. {E. E. Green). 



Kirkaldy, apparently on the axiom " once a synonym always a 



Fis. 26. — Enithares indie 



