GALCHAKA. 297 



p. 3, f. 2) and the figures of his two species of Anthocoris on the 

 following pages, as argument for my contention. If, however, 

 aterrimus, Dist.. is to be placed in Anthocoris, it is well to 

 remember that Sahlberg described a species under the name 

 of AntJiocoris aterrimus, which is now placed in the genus 

 Tetraphleps, and therefore the proposal " once a homonym always 

 a homonym" (with which in the sense proposed I entirely 

 disagree) would necessitate a new name for the species, by those 

 who follow the Kirkaldian method. 



Genus GALCHANA, nov. 

 (To follow ArnulpJiiu,Vo}. Ill, p. 3.) 



Type, 6. humeralis, Dist. 



Distribution. North India. 



Head long and slender, longer than breadth including eyes ; 

 antennae setose, with the first joint short, not reaching apex 

 of head, second about twice as long as first, third a little shorter 



Fig. 165. Galchana humeralis. 



than second, about as long as fourth ; rostrum reaching the 

 anterior coxae, second joint much the longest ; pronotum slightly 

 more than twice broader at base than long, two transverse 

 incisions on anterior area enclosing a collar and a transverse 

 callose region behind it, the basal margin moderately concave, 

 the lateral margins obliquely sinuate, the posterior angles dis- 

 tinctly subangularly prominent; scutellum triangular with two 

 transverse ridges, one near base, the other just behind middle ; 



