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Mr. W. L. Distant on Hemiptera from 
Fam. Brachyrhynchip^e. 
Brachyrhynchus membranaceus, 
Fab. 
Fam. Reduviid^:. 
Isyndus heros, Fab. 
Eudochus famulus, Stal. 
Euagoras plagiatus, Bunn. 
Sycauus collaris, Fab. 
Velinus annulatus, n. sp. 
Cosmolestes annulipes, n. sp. 
Reduvius marginellus, Fab. 
-mendicus, Stal. 
-costalis, Stal. 
-? pulchriventris, Stal. 
-nigricollis, Dali, (var.) 
Fam. Ectrichodhxe. 
Vilius melanopterus, Stal. 
Physorhynchus tuberculatus, 
Stal. 
Ectrychotes pilicornis, Fab. 
Scadra, sp. (allied to fuscicrus, 
St&l, var.?). 
Fam. Piratid je. 
Tirates atro-maculatus, Stul. 
Lestomerus affinis, Serv. 
Androclus granulatus, Stal. 
Fam. Aoaxthasitdidte. 
Smiuthus fuscipenuis. 
Acanthaspis quinquespinosa, Fab. 
-helluo, Stal. 
-cincticrus, Stul. 
Centrocnemis, sp. ? (mutilated). 
Fam. Stenopodoxe. 
Oncocepbalus annulipes, Stcil. 
Fam. Belostomidje. 
Belostoma indica, St.-Farg. Sf 
Serv. 
Fam. Nepid.e. 
Laccotrephes robustus, Stul. 
-ruber, Linn. 
-japonensis, Scott. 
Notes and Descriptions. 
Prionolomia gigas : n. sp. 
Brown, somewhat shining, more or less clothed with short 
whitish hairs. Antennae brown; first joint almost equal in 
length to second and third together, third joint much shorter 
than second (remainder mutilated). Rostrum reaching be¬ 
yond anterior coxae; third and fourth joints luteous, tip black. 
Pronotum rugose, granulate, the lateral angles very prominent, 
produced somewhat upwards and forwards, gradually narrowed 
to the apex, and very strongly serrated on both sides, the ser¬ 
ration continued, but gradually diminishing in strength along 
the lateral margins to head; a transverse impression a little 
before anterior border, and another with a small acute tubercle 
at each end near posterior border, and three longitudinal 
linear impressions, of which the central one is the most dis¬ 
tinct. Scutellum transversely and coarsely strigose, with the 
extreme tip luteous. Corium obscurely granulate ; membrane 
brassy brown. Abdomen above red with the marginal borders 
black. Underside of body slightly darker in colour than upper 
surface. Sternum with an oblique whitish band on each side. 
Anterior and intermediate legs brown, with the tarsi dull red¬ 
dish and the tibia? subdilated ; posterior legs darker in colour, 
the hind femora very much thickened, somewhat narrowed at 
base and apex, armed with strong black tubercles along the 
whole inner half of the upper surface, a moderately strong 
