RIPXOBTCJS. 415- 



{Cameron). Cejlon. Burma: Kareauee (Fea). — Also received 

 from the Malay Peninsula. 



I have a specimen taken off the coast of Malabar in lat. 

 7" 46' N., long. 70° 26' E. 



674. Riptortus linearis, Fabr. (Lygseus) Si/sf. Enf. p. 710 (1775) ; 



StcV, Hem. Fahv. i, p. 64 (1868). 

 Alydus dentipes, Herr.-Schaff. Wnnz. Ins. viii, p. 99, f. 867" 



(1848). 

 Alydus clavatus, Dohrn, Steff. ent. Zeit. xxi, p. 402 (1860). 



Dark cinnamon-brown ; pronotum, scutellum, corium, and 

 lateral areas of sternum distinctly punctate ; first, second, and 

 third joints of antennae, fascia at base of head between eyes, 

 central fascia to head beneath, lateral angular spines to pronotum, 

 disk of sternum, and abdomen black ; a sublateral Itcvigate pale 

 ochraceous fascia margined with black on each side of head and 

 sternum ; lateral areas, base, and some spots on discal black of 

 abdomen, luteous ; a small spot at the middle of posterior pronotal 

 margin, and the apex of the scutellum, pale luteous. 



Length 14 to 16 ; breadth between pronotal angles 3 to 3| 

 millim. 



Hah. Sikhim, Darjeeling (CoZL Dist.). Bangalore (Cameron). 

 Bor Ghat (Di.ro/O- Ceylon {Green Sf- Lewis). Burma; Metanja, 

 Bhamo, Palon {Fea). Tenasserim ; Myitta {Dohert)/), Meetan, 

 Kawkareet (Fea). — Also received from several islands of the 

 Malayan Archipelago. 



675. Riptortus Strenuus, Hon: Term. Filzeteh, 1889, p. 35. 



" Cinnamon-brown, greyish-silky ; antennae unicolorous, bodv 

 concolorous, head with the vertex behind eyes and between ocelli 

 and eyes black : head beneath, a long spine at the lateral pronotal 

 angles, disks of sternum and abdomen black ; a lateral fascia to 

 head and sternum pale luteous, Isevigate, above and beneatli 

 margined with black, this fascia is broader on the meso- and meta- 

 sterna than on the head and prosternum ; abdomen with the base 

 and lateral areas pale luteous, a median broad black vitta on 

 each side and at apex of fourth and tifth segments angularly 

 produced ; posterior femora beneath and apices of posterior tibiae 

 black ; rostrum extending to the intermediate coxa?. 



" Allied to E. linearis but larger, antenna) and body concolorous ; 

 rostrum not passing the intermediate coxae ; lateral pronotal spines 

 longer, the lateral fascia to head and sternum unequal in 

 breadth, &c. 



" Length YSh millim." 



Hah. Himalaya {Budapest Mus.). 



I have not seen this species and reproduce Horvath's description. 



