46 NOTO^TECTID.i:. 



1525. Anisops fie"beri, KirTz. Entomologist, 1901, p. 5; id. Wien. ent. 

 Zeit. xxiii, p. 116 (1904). 

 Anisops inveus, Fieb. Rhynchotogr. p. 60 (1851), 7iec Fuhr. 



Almost indistinguishable from ui. sardea, except in the male 

 sex, in which the cephalic projection is much shorter, less angu- 

 late, and more truncate anteriorly. 



Length, c? , 5 millim. 



Hah. " Distributed over Brit. India " (Jide Kirl-aldy). Ceylon 

 {Coll. Dist.). Celebes. 



I possess only one male specimen of this species, which was 

 collected in Ceylon. It is pi^obably anything but rare, but has 

 escaped the attention of collectors. 



1526. Anisops niveilS, Fahr. (Xotonecta) Syst. Fnt. p. 690 (1775) ; 



Kirk. (Anisops) Ann. Soc. Fnt. Fr. 1899, p. 105 ; id. Wien. 



ent. Zeit. xxiii, p. 118 (1904). 

 Notonecta ciliata, Fcdn: Ent. Syst. Siqypl. p. 524 (1798). 

 Anisops hvalinus, Fieb. Abh. bolim. Ges. Wiss. (5) vii, p. 482 



(1851). ' 

 Anisops ciliatus, Stdl, Vet.-Ak. Handl. vii, 11, p. 137 (1868). 

 Anisops pelluceus, Gerst. Van der Decken's Reise, iii, 2, p. 424 



(1873). 

 Anisops scutellaris, de Carl. Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. xxxv, p. 123 



(1895). 



This widely-distributed species is larger in size than the two 

 preceding, and differs also by the absence of the cephalic pro- 

 tuberance in the male. In colour it is very similar ; the head 

 and pronotum are palest, the scutellum pale ochraceous, and the 

 hemelytra more or less shaded with pale fuliginous ; the pronotum 

 has usually two fuliginous spots both on the anterior and posterior 

 margins, though these are sometimes partly and often entirely 

 absent, and the same remark applies to t\^o fuliginous spots at the 

 base of the scutellum ; the interocular space has a distinct central 

 longitudinal incised line. 



Length 10 to 12^ millim. 



Hah. Bombay (Z^w'om). Probably generally distributed through- 

 out British India. Burma : Bhamo(Fe«). — Widely distributed in 

 the Ethiopian Region. 



Subfamily II. PLEINtE. 



Pleida, Stal, Hem. Afr. iii, p. 192 (1865). 

 Pleiuse, Kirk. Tr. E. S. 1897, p. 395 ; ante p. 40. 



Of these minute insects we know comparatively little. Of the 

 genus Plea four species are here enumerated, a totally inadequate 

 record for British India, and one which will be "considerablv 

 augmented when more attention is paid to the collection and 

 observation of these small creatures. 



