ANISOPS, 



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all the tarsi being provided with claws, and in having the last 

 joint o£ the antennae longer than the penultimate joint, characters 

 reversed in Notonecta. 



Three species, according to present knowledge, are found in 

 British India. 



1524. Anisops sardea, Herr.-Schiif. Wanz. Ins. ix, p. 40, fio-. 904 

 (1852) ; Kirk. Wien. ent. Zeit. xxiii, p. 114 (1904) et syu." 

 Anisops nivea, >Spin. nee Fabr. Ess. Hem. p. 58 (1837). 

 Anisops productiis, Fieh. Rhynchotogr. p. 60 (1851); Stdl, Hem. 



^/^r. iii, p. 191 (1865)... 

 Anisops uatalensis, Stal, Ofv. Vet.-Ak. Fork, xii, p. 89 (1855). 

 Notonecta naunla, Walk. Zoologist, p. 2381 (1870). 

 ? Notonecta alba, Forskal, Descr. Anim. Orient, p. xxiii (1775). 



Pale stramineous, eyes black ; hemelytra sordid-grey. Male 

 with a long, triangular, obtuse apically-pointed cephalic pro- 

 jection, which is absent in the female. In both sexes there is a 



Fig. 27. — Anisops sardea. 



distinct foveate impression near each basal angle of the scutellum ; 

 the interocular space is very narrow at base. 



Length 6 to Ih millim. 



Hah. Bombay {Heifer). Burma: Minhla (Comotto). — Widely 

 distributed in 8. Palaearctic and Ethiopian Regions. 



The sexes Aary much in size, some females being larger than 

 small males. Kirkaldy, who seems to have examined a large 

 number of specimens, gives the dimensions as : c? Q-lOg, $ 7|- 

 8| millim., but I have seen no Oriental specimens that approach 

 that size. 



The two specimens here figured were collected by Capt. Comotto 

 in Burma. 



