Mr. W. L. Distant on Reduviidse. 257 



Polytoxus pallescens, sp. n. 



Pale stramineous ; eyes black; legs strongly pilose; pro- 

 notal, lateral, and scutellar spines with their apices fuscous ; 

 anterior prosternal spines long, robust, prominent ; posterior 

 femora about reaching apex of abdomen ; anterior pronotal 

 lobe somewhat broadly centrally foveate, with strongly 

 carinate margins ; basal joint of antennae almost as long as 

 posterior femora. 



Long. 14 millim. 



Hab. Ceylon {Green, Brit. Mus.). 



SrENOPODiy^^. 

 Genus OnCOCEPHALUS. 



Oncocephalus naboldes. 

 Pirates naboides, Walk. Oat. Het. vii. p. 121. n. 80 (1873). 



Some confusion is likely to arise around this species. 

 Walker [loc. cit. viii. p. 27. n. 17) also described a species 

 from Ceylon under the name of Oncocephalus naboides^ the 

 type of which cannot now be found, and which I therefore, 

 in consideration of Walker's method of describing, propose 

 to treat as non-existent. Lethierry and Severin have included 

 the last description in their Catalogue (t. iii. p. 87), which 

 name can remain, but the reference must be corrected. 



A CANTEASFIN^. 



Genus Inara. 



Inaraflavopicta. 



Inara fiavopicta, StUl, (Efv. Vet.-Ak. Ftirh. 1859, p. 190. 

 Bpiniger limhifer, Walk. Cat. Het. vii. p. 166. n. 61 (1873). 

 Spiniger conjiictus, Walk. loc. cit. n. 62. 



Genus Staliastes. 



Staliastes zonafus. 



Pachynomus zonatus, Walk. Cat. Het. vii. p. 131. n. 4 (1873). 

 Opixus subater, Bredd. Abh. Senckenb. Ges. xxv. p. 165 (1900). 



PlJlATIN^. 



Pirates semifasciaius . 



Reduvius semifasciaius, Walk. Cat. Het. vii. p. 202. n. 66 (1873). 



