POLYCTENID^E. 309 



abdomen beneath ; body beneath black ; lateral margins of meso- 

 and metasterna and the legs ochraceous ; antenna with the first, 



Fig. 173. Blaptostethus ceylanicus. 



second and third joints ochraceous, remainder mutilated in typical 

 specimen now before me. 



Length 3 millim. 



Hob. Ceylon; Peradeniya (Uzel, Vienna Mus.). 



3084. Blaptostethus piceus, Fieb. Wien. ent. Monatschr. iv, p. 270, 

 t. vii, f. iv (1860) ; Rent. Act. Soc. Sci. Fenn. xiv, p. 667 

 (1885). 



Var. pallescens, Popp. Act. Soc. Sci. Fenn. xxxvii, no. 9, p. 41 

 (1909). 



Poppius has enumerated a variety of the typical B. piceus, Fieb., 

 originally described from Celebes, as found in Bombay and East 

 Africa. T have not seen this species or variety, and therefore have 

 only drawn attention to it. 



Family POLYCTENID^E. (Vol. Ill, p. 11.) 



Dr. Speiser has recently contributed some notes on this Family 

 (Eec. Ind. Mus. iii, p. 271, 1909). Seven species are enumerated 

 in this paper, but only one recorded from British India, the 

 P. lyrce, Waterh. (vol. iii, p. 11). Dr. Annandale, in 1908, found 

 at Trivandrum in Travancore, on a specimen of Cynopterus 

 marginatus a nymph, which in Speiser's opinion probably belongs 

 to his P. talpa described from Nias. He however remarks that 



