4.16 Mr. G. W. Kirkaldy on the 
diverge ; vertex more than three times as wide as synthlipsis; 
breadth of the eye nearly five times as great as that of the 
synthlipsis. Pronotwm and scutelluwm similar to those of N. triguttata 
(No. 13). Hemielytra varying from orange-red to red-brown, 
with an undulatory bluish-black fascia (occasionally represented 
by scattered spots) extending from suture to lateral margin, near 
the apical margin of the corium, but diverging from that as it 
approaches the lateral margin; membrane bluish-black. Adar 
nervures brown. Abdominis dorsum black, some of the middle 
segments being at times somewhat suffused with violet-brown. 
Abdoininis venter black. 
Long. 13°5-16°7 mm., lat. 5°2-6°2 mm. 
Tyer. Fallou coll. (Paris Mus.). 
Hab. Cuatna: Pekin, Kiang-Si,* Se-Tchouen, Chen-Si 
(Paris Mus.), Kin-Kiang [{?Chin- Kiang], Foo-Chan (Brit. 
Mus.), Fo-Kien (Fallow and Bergroth colls.), Ngan Hoei 
(Montandon and my colls.). Well distributed over the 
Chinese Empire. 
To this species I have referred four specimens in the 
Paris Museum (from Chen-Si, Se-T'chouen, and Kiang-Si), 
which seem sufficiently distinct to bear a varietal name— 
kiangsts, var. nov. 
Hemielytra sordid luteous with a dark-brown irregular mark 
extending in a zigzag from the apex of the clavus to the base or 
the membrane (along the suture), thence to the exocorial sub- 
margin and finally along the apical third of the latter. There is 
also a small dark-brown crescent on the exterior membrane lobe. 
Membrane rufoluteous. 
Long. 14 mm., lat. 5 mm. 
In Ann. Mag. N. H. (6), xx., p. 58, the type was 
referred to as being in the possession of Dr. Bergroth. 
That specimen was certainly from Fallou’s collection and 
is that from which the redescription was drawn up by 
Dr. Bergroth. There is, however, an example from Fo- 
Kien in the Fallou collection (Paris Museum), labelled in 
Fallou’s writing, “ Notonecta chinensis. Type. Fallou, 
Le Naturaliste, 15, 1., 1887,” so that this latter speci- 
** These names are given here as they were spelt on the labels, 
but it is difficult to identify some, as the same places are spelt dif- 
ferently in almost every atlas consulted. 
