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Family LiMNOBATimE. 
Genus Limnobates, Burm. 
Limnobates strigosa, sp. nov . 
(Plate xi. figs. 1, 2.) 
Long narrow, brown or yellowish-brown ; head about the 
length of the thorax, subcylindrical, widened in front ; eyes 
hemispherical, set in the sides of the head considerably behind 
the middle. First joint of the antennae half the length and twice 
the thickness of the second. Abdomen at its widest part scarcely 
wider than the thorax. Tarsi black. 
Length . — 11 mm. 
Hah. — Sydney, and Botany Swamps, N.S.W. 
Appended are brief notes of species known to occur in this 
country : — 
Family NotonectiD;E. 
Genus Corixa, Geoff. 
Three species of Corixa common in the ponds about Sydney. 
Genus Sigara, Fabr . 
Two species, rather abundant. 
Genus Anisops, Spin . 
Anisops australis , Stal. Ofr. K. Y. Ak. Forh. xii. 190; Stal. 
Eug. Resa, 267. 
Several other species abundant. 
Family Nepid^e. 
Genus Nepa, Linn . 
Nepa tristis, Stal. Ofr. K. Y. Ak. Forh. xi. 241 ; Eug. Resa. 266. 
Hab. — Waterloo Swamps, N.S.W. 
Genus Ranatra, Fabr. 
Ranatra jiliformis, Fabr. Skrivt. Nat. Selskal. i. 228 ; Ent. Syst. 
iv. 64; Syst. Rhyn. 108; Schneid. Neu. Mag. i. 31 ; H. 
Sch. Wanz. Ins. ix. 31, pi. 290, fig. H; Stal. Hem. Fabr. 2, 
135. 
Generally distributed. 
