40 Mr. W. L. Distant on 



4?. Snout as long as or longer than eye, tlie diameter of 

 which is 4| to 5^ in the length of head ; interorbital width 

 4.1, to 45 in the length of head. Maxillary extending beyond 

 the eye ; lower jaw projecting, covering the anterior part of 

 the prsemaxillary band of teeth wlien the mouth is closed ; 

 gular plate § or a little less than ^ the length of the lower 

 jaw, which is more than | that of tlie head ; 28 to 32 branchio- 

 stegals ; 14 gill-rakers on the lower part of the anterior arch. 

 94 to 98 scales in a longitudinal series. Dorsal 21-23, with 

 16 or 17 branched rays; anal 15-16, with 11 or 12 branched 

 rays ; pectoral | the length of head, extending a little less 

 than ^ of the distance from its base to the pelvics ; origin of 

 pelvics a little nearer to base of caudal tiian to end of snout. 

 Least depth of caudal peduncle ^ to f the length of head. 

 63 or 64 vertebrse. 



From the Cape of Good Hope to China and Japan. 



Here described from a Madras specimen of 350 mm. and 

 one from the Cape measuring 680 mm. in total length. The 

 latter is a more slender fish than the former, but seems to be 

 the same species. Counts of scales, fin-rays, &c. in two small 

 specimens (110 mm.) from Madras, and of stuffed examples 

 from South Africa and China, are included in the description. 

 Two skins from Dr. Kirk's collection, labelled respectively 

 Lake Nyasa and Shir^ River, may belong to this species. 



7. Flops lacerta, Cuv. & Val., 1816. 

 Ulops confficus, Bouleng., 1898. 



This small species, reaching a length of 560 ram. in West- 

 African rivers, agrees with the preceding in the structure of 

 the mouth, but has fewer branchiostegals, more numerous 

 gill-rakers, larger scales, vertebraj in greater number, &c. 



VIII. — Descriptions of Tico neic Species of Rhynchota from 

 Bengal. By W. L. Distant. 



Heteeoptera. 



Fam. Saldidas. 



Subfam. Saldinjs. 



Valleriola cicindeloides , sp. n. 



Greyish ochraceous, thickly shortly palely pilose ; head, 

 anterior lobe of pronotum, and four short longitudinal fasciae 



