352 APPENDIX. COHmDjB. 



clavus ocbraceous ; body beneath and legs pale ochraceous ; head 

 large, longer than half the breadth at base between eyes, about as 

 long as pronotum and scutellurn together, with a central impressed 

 longitudinal line and a distinct tubercle at base ; pronotum 



r 



Fig. 213. Micronecta merope. 



transverse and narrow, the lateral margins very short; elytra 

 with the lateral margins moderately convexly rounded. 



Length 3 millim. 



Hab. Bengal ; Canning (Annandale), Eajshai (Annandale). 



Dr. Annandale at Canning found this species in "brackish- 

 water pools "; at Eajshai in " tanks." 



3135. Micronecta dsedala, sp. n. 



Length of head a little more than half the breadth between 

 eyes, ochraceous, a small central dark tubercle at base ; pro- 

 notum short, transverse, medial length about one-third the breadth 

 between humeral angles, lateral margins very short, obtusely 



Fig. 214. Micronccta dadala. 



angulate, dark umber-brown ; scutellum ochraceous ; elytra dull 

 ochraceous, distinctly punctate ; clavus (excluding anterior margin), 

 more than anterior half of corium (excluding basal halves of 

 marginal and submarginal areas), membranal margins, and a 



