174 Mr. W. L. Distant on Ilcnicoccphalidae. 



Mr. Kirkaldy, in tlie unique female speeimen lie described, 

 appears to have dealt with a rubbed specimen. I have a 

 series of Ceylonese exam])les which perfectly agree with 

 Scott's type (in the Brit. Mus.) and description. 



IJydrometra strigosa. 



Limnobatcs strirjosa, Skuse, liecord Austr. Mus. ii. p. 43, pi. xi. figs. 1, 2 

 (1893). 



Closely allied to the preceding species. The British 

 Museum possesses a specimen from Adelaide. 



Fam. HenicocephalidaB. 

 Genus IIenicocephalus. 



EnicoccpJuilus, Westw. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1837, p. 22. 

 Stenojnrates, Walk. Cat. Ilet. vii. p. 139 (1873). 



IIenicocephalus coUaris. 

 Stenopirates collaris, Walk. Cat. Ilet. vii. p. 139. n. 1 (1873). 



IIenicocephalus antJiocoroides, 

 Stenopirates anthocoroides, Walk. Cat. Ilet. vii. p. 139. n. 1 (1873). 



Long. 4^ millim. 



Smaller than the dimensions given (7-5 millira.) for the 

 other West-African species, //. curculio, Karscli, vvliich has 

 been placed, probably in error, as a synonym of the Indian 

 species, H. basalis, Westw., by Lethierry and Severin. I 

 have not, however, seen Karsch's species. 



IIenicocephalus Wallacei, sp. n. 



Piceous ; postocular portion of head brownish piceous ; 

 lateral margins of the hemelytra, from which a short curved 

 line is emitted a little beyond centre, coxfe, bases of inter- 

 mediate and posterior femora, the intermediate and posterior 

 tibia?, the tarsi, and third and fourth joints of the antenna3 

 ochraceous. Antenna? finely pilose, second and third joints 

 subcqual in length ; head robust, broad, the anteocular a little 

 longer than the postocular area, somewhat strongly pilose ; 

 anterior lobe of pronotum a little longer than posterior lobe ; 

 hemelytra not quite reaching apex of abdomen. {Two carded 

 specimens.) 



Long. 7 millim. 



Ilah. New Guinea; Dorey [Wallace, Brit. Mus.). 



