1921.] The Eighth Indian Science Congress. exlix 
Like a few other poonernsaieoee it has well developed fulera, situated 
on the gm of the clype 
esonotum is diterentanted into the four typic —the 
Pees: " Seated, Secutellum and Postscute!luin—but t se ease a “Me ta- 
notum is unlike that of the — y of Heteroptera. lt has only two 
iene: which is a primitive featur 
The pleural sutures present in Hteropern in el are quite absent 
here. Inthe hind wings there is an e n between the costal sciseails 
seca costal pienso is not Seineibad by Feiber who names these 
“The Marton in ee number of cells of the fore wing is an interesting 
feature, it may differ in the two wings of the same individua 
The g giiopatiys ses of the female are much red uced, probably corre- 
The t cles in Hem 
not hold good for this ins In the female a tenth spit wele, though in 
en 
ft cte 
habit of the bug. It is continuous — e suction canal, formed by the 
two maxillae. :" pedent epipharynx is absent. 
There re a ge of rage ary ae i —salivary receptacles as separate 
organs, are not present. But the arrangement of different parts wi 
sepa acca shows that - they are confluent with glands themselve 
o part of the alimentary canal Ra es enes between the scaic latina 
icholes and the beginning of the r 
estes are not follicular, but c aspad ct, two in number. They 
ventral to the alimentary canal car eee forsal to it, as is the case in insets 
generally. are accessory glan ee number, assume a huge s 
during _ rote — se th Poe the ar 
Ova onsist of pit tubules = = eight anion in 
other “at »): ; farther ‘all prey tubules lie in = plane— uncommo 
features. Besides the usual! accessory glands and mina Shen ca, there is a 
ee i gland ar yry its duct ti into the lumen of the 
uteru 
is an —— degree of concentration, only two ganglia on 
the ventral nerv 
pair of ii baglike gmc glands, connected to each other by a 
transverse a lie o a 1 of a ‘metatharax, below the 
trac of o 
nuous ; vena Tongitndinal unk. s arrangement is n 
i t deseribed in literature peanalis, The seid Soul Sbee 
tinal trunks are dares 
—, points in the vascular system of Varanus bengal- 
h y G. S. THAPAR. 
present ee say the vascular system of the genus Varanus 
is chit” due sa Hochstetter and Beddard, but their descriptions do not 
apply to the case under eter pla The no teworthy points in the 
pr nen case Fae _ 
nage de of — Si. el veins on both sides in ne a 
with th cavae. These form, as 
bi inde: the jugular pleas 
Teas agnor vein from the right s 
dent vein jerudelick © 
uperior vena cava is quite indepen- 
the body wall. It has no connection 
