480 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [December, 1913.] 
size of the body and the almost equai length° of the head and 
pronotum, as well as by the more transverse pronotum, the 
anterior and posterior margins of which are less arcuated. 
: tcronecta isis Horv.—Plain of Gennesaret, 2 ¢ 3, 
2 22; Wad-es-Semakh, 1 °. 
t ta perparva n. sp.—Oblongo-ovata, albida, 
laevigata, glabra, nitidula; capite antrorsum fortiter producto 
quam pronoto fere duplo longiore (12: 7), vertice medio 
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optime determinata nigra notato ; scutello distincte transverso : 
elytris striolis nonnullis longitudinalibus fuscescentibus, sed 
obsoletis signatis, sutura clavi angustissime nigra, margine 
costali corii strolis binis nigricantibus notato, fossula subcos- 
tali longa, retrorsum pone medium elytri extensa; femoribus 
et tibiis posticis subtus linea subtilissima percurrente nigra 
pictis, tarsis posticis apice nigris. Long. 1+ mill. . 
Tiberias, on the surface of the lake, at night, 1 ?. 
_ This fine species to be placed near M. capttata Horv. from 
which it differs by the smaller size, the whitish colour of the 
whole surface, the well-determined black line on the hind 
margin of pronotum, the more transverse scutellum and by 
me black lines on the ventral surface of the hind femora and 
ibiae. 
