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SECOND YABKAND MISSION. 
Sub-family —PIRATING (PIRAT1NA) Stal. 
36. Pirates (Lestomertjs) aeeinis, Serv. 
Peirates affinis, Serv.., Ann. Sc. nat., 23, p. 216, 2 (1831). Lestomerns ajfinis , A. and S., Hist., p. 323, 
2 (1843). 
Sab .—Jhelam Talley, July 1873. 
India orientalis (Mus. Holm); Borneo (Mus. Leiden); Cochin-China (Coll. Slgnoret , 
Stal); Assam (Coll. Distant). 
Family— HYDROBATTDJS, Stal. 
37. Gerris (Limnotrechtjs) sahlbergi. Eig. 10. 
Gerris (Limnotrechus ) sahlbergi, Dist., Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., p. 125, 1879. 
Head thickly covered with olivaceous pubescence, with a small black spot on vertex. 
Antennae ochraceous, 1st joint longest, 2nd and 3rd shortest and subequal, 4th rather longer 
than 3rd, thickly covered with greyish pile. Pronotum ochraceous, pubescent, anterior 3rd, 
lateral borders, and a central longitudinal line, olivaceous; the last is testaceous on anterior 
portion of pronotum. Hemielytra brownish testaceous, with the nervures olivaceous. Un¬ 
der side of body covered with greyish pile, except lateral borders, apex, and central portion of 
abdomen, which parts are ochraceous. Legs ochraceous, fore femora with an outer longi¬ 
tudinal black fascia. 
Long. 10 mill. 
Sab .—Neighbourhood of Leh. 
Dr. Puenter, who has done me the favour of examining the species, reports—“ L. thoracico 
affinis el segmenlorum genitalium marls structura similis, differt autem pronoto breviore, 
postice brevius et obtusius producto, angulis dentiformibus segm. abdominalis sexti brecissimis, 
vix productis s tibiis, prcesertim posticis, brevibus, tarsis posticis his tantum brevioribus ” 
38. Gen. (?) orientalis. Eigs. 11 and 12. 
Halobates (?) orientalis , Dist., Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., p. 126, 1879. 
Brownish ochraceous, finely pilose. Antenme with the 1st joint curved, robust, and 
about the length of head and pronotum together; remaining joints more slender, 2nd and 
3rd subequal, 4th a little shorter than 3rd. Pronotum with a median pale longitudinal line 
and a large rounded fovea on posterior portion of disc. The rostrum is 5-jointed; the first 
two joints are very robust and somewhat fused together, the 2nd. minute and much shorter 
than the 1st, the 3rd much the longest and rather less robust than 1st and 2nd, 4th small, 
slender, and black, 5th ochreous, very slender and hair-like, and rather shorter than 4th. 
Sternum clothed with greyish pile. 
The eyes are large, semi-globular, and castaneous, situated at base of lateral margins of 
head. The pronotum is about the length of the head, but broader, truncate in front and 
rounded behind; mesonotum and metanotum hardly distinguishable, much longer than pro- 
