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MR. R. E. TURNER ON 



Old World Species [exclvjiiiig Australian). 



51. PiSON (PiSONOIDES) OBLITERATUS Sm. 



Pisoii (Pisonoides) obliteratus Sm. Journ. Proc. Linn. Soc, Zool. 

 ii. p. 104(1857), $. 



Farapison obliteratus Sm. Trans. Ent. Soc. London, p. 299 

 (1869). 



This must be taken as the type of Smith's subgenus Pisonoides, 

 which is the same as his later genus Parapison. Though Kohl 

 treats Pisonoides as a nomen nudum, I certainly cannot follow 

 him. 



The present species may be distinguished from other Oriental 

 Pisonoides by the first abdominal segment, which is about twice 

 as long as its apical breadth, being narrow throughout, though 

 gradually broadening towards the apex. 



Hah. Borneo {Wallace); Taiping, Malay Peninsula (IF. B. 

 Orme) ; Maulmain, Tenasserim [Bingham), November ; Kumaon, 

 N.W. India (Miss A. Brook), August. 



52. PisoN (Pisonoides) agilis Sm. 



Parapison agilis Sm. Trans. Ent. Soc. London, p. 300 

 (1869), 2 . 



The legs are piceous, almost black, with whitish calcaria, the 

 fore tibiai and tarsi dull ferruginous brown. It is very near 

 erythropus, but in that species the legs are bright ferruginous. 

 The second cubital cell in erythropus is pointed on the radius, 

 but in agilis the second abscissa of the radius is nearly half as 

 long as the first transverse cubital nervure. Bingham states 

 that the eyes in agilis are nearer together on the vertex than in 

 erythropus, but this is not the case in the type ; he has evidently 

 looked at a Ceylon specimen when comparing, the eyes being 

 slightly nearer to each other both on the vertex and clj^peus than 

 in the type. The length of the second abscissa of the radius 

 also varies considerably in Ceylon specimens. The other points 

 of difference given by Bingham are either unsatisfactory or not 

 constant. I am inclined to think that the two forms may be 

 merely local forms of one species, with another local race in 

 Ceylon with somewhat narrower spaces between the eyes both on 

 vertex and clypeus. 



Hah. Bareilly {Home), type ; Ceylon [Dr. Thwaites). 



53. PisoN (Pisonoides) erythropus Kohl. 



Parapison rufipes Sm. Trans. Ent. Soc. London, p. 299 (1869), 

 $ (nee Pisonitus rufipes Schuck., 1837). 



Pison erythropus Kohl, Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, xxxiv. 

 p. 183 (1884). 



Hah. N.W. India {Home). 



