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COKIXID^. 



Genus MICRONECTA. 



Micronecta, Kirk. Entomolo(jist, 1897, p. 260. 



Sigara, Fabr. Ent. Syst iv, p. 59 (1794), part. ; id. Syst. Rhyng. 

 p. 104 (180.3), part.' 



Type, M. mimitissima, Linn., a Palsearctic species. 



Distrihution. PaliBarctic and Oriental Regions. Probably much 

 more widelj^ distributed. 



This genus, long known ujider the name of Sigara, is at once 

 distinguished from CorLva by the exposed scutelluui and the three- 

 jointed antennae. In distriljution it is probably cosmopolitan. 



1532. Micronecta striata, Fieb. (Sigara) (nee Fabr.) Abh. k. hohm. 



Ges. Wiss. V, 8, p. 292, taf. 1, ff. 22-24 (1844) ; Kirk. (Micro- 



nectal Entoviologist, 1898, p. 3. 

 Corixa albifrons, Mutsch. Bull. Soc. Nat Mosc. xxxvi, p. 94 (1863). 

 Corixa ovivora, Wesfw. Proc. Ent. Soc. 1871, p. iv ; Kirk. 



(Sigara) Entomologist, 1897, p. 238. 

 Sigara siva, Kii-k. Entomologist, 1897, p. 240. 



Head pale yellow, somewhat dis- 

 coloured afc base ; pronotum with the 

 anterior and posterior margins and a 

 central transverse line black ; hemelytra 

 with longitudinal black lines ; body 

 beneath and legs uniformly pale yellow. 

 Length 3 to 4 millira. 

 Hah. Calcutta {hid. Miis.). Madras 

 Presidency ; Canara. Ceylon {Coll. 

 Horvath). 



Mr. N. Annandale, in forwarding me 

 specimens of this species from Calcutta, 

 wrote : — " In October they flew to my 

 lamp in numbers every day, evidently coming from a ' tank ' a 

 few hundred yards away. Now (NoAember) they are far less 

 numerous. Tlie interesting point is that my rooms are at the top 

 of a house three stories high, and that therefoi-e these insects 

 must have a lofty flight. I have not seen them at the tanks or 

 the stoi-y below, where I dine about once a week." Under the 

 name of Corira ovivora (mjira) they were reported as destructive 

 to the ova of fishes. 



Pig. 30. 



Micronecta striata. 



1533. Micronecta haliploides, Horv. Ann. Mus. Nat. Hung, ii, 

 p. 594 (1904). 



Oblong-ovate, convex, whitish-testaceous, shining ; head a little 

 broader than pronotum, anteriorly moderately jiroduced, vertex 

 levigate, medially distinctly longer than it is on each side near eyes, 

 and with a medial minute basal fuscous tubercle ; pronotum short. 



