On Oriental RotluviiiUo. 303 



appoarancn of the two alar sopta 2.2. /j (C. G9) is a later 

 section and shows a pseudo-ltjlranierism caused by a late 

 appearance of the two counter-lateral septa 3 . 3, and a 

 divergence of the alar septa 2 . 2, most unusual at this stage. 

 lu the same specimen the main septum became detached 

 bofore the addition of any mt'tasepta. X 40. 

 I'll/. 7. (C. 78.) ViiatliiipJijillinn (?). A Silurian specimen (Wenlock), 

 to show tlie identity of the protoseptal arrangement of a 

 Lower Pahcozoic coral witli tliat existing in a Carboniferous 

 one. X 35. 



'i'iie numbers in brackets refer to slides in the possession of the 

 Geological Survey of Scotland. 



LIII. — Or/e?j^aZ Reduviidje. By W. L. Distant. 



With the exception of one Borneau g-enus, the Reduvlids 

 described in this paper have reached my hands since the 

 puhlication of the second volume of Indian Rhynchota ('Fauna 

 (if British India ^). They will be included in the ap})endix to 

 Vol. IV., now in preparation, and figures of the new genera 

 will then be added. 



Fam. Reduviidje. 



Subfam. Emesin^e. 



Div. S T E N L .E M A K I A. 



Ploiariola pygniceuy sp. n. 



Head fuscous brown, the eyes black ; antennaj creamy 

 white with numerous fuscous spots or annulations ; pronotum 

 with the anterior lobe piceous, the posterior lobe fuscous, the 

 former much irrorated with linear wdiite markings and with 

 its lateral margins ochraceous, the latter with its lateral 

 margins and three central cariuate lines (of which the central 

 is incomplete and the two lateral meet anteriorly) creamy 

 white, its posterior margin ochraceous ; abdomen above 

 fuscous, beneath greyish with fuscous spots; legs creamy 

 white with fuscous spots or annulations ; hemelytra creamy 

 white with darker mottlings, on basal area the mottlings are 

 fuscous and on costal margin there are iuscous spots ; first 

 joint of antenuEe about as long as intermediate femora, 

 second very little shorter than tirst ; posterior femora about 

 as long as whole body; anterior lobe of pronotum a little 

 shorter than the posterior lobe, pronotal margins slightly 

 sinuate. 



Long. 3^ mm. 



Ilab. Ceylon; Peradeniya [E. E. Green). 



