. Rhynchota ... a *. Distribution. Oriental and Malayan Eegions. Buckton diagnoses this genus as follows :— Pronotum withoutsuprahumeral horns, tumid and crescentic in form, much variegated with rich brown. Hind tarsi short. The pronotal lateral processes are, however, well developed, butsubhorizontally directed and apically recurved and iu a continuous E, tum(sce?is, Buckt. = i. ohesus, Fairm. PEEL^MAX. f7 line with the crescentie anterior margin of the pronotuni. Tliisis the real and sufficient character which separates Emphusu froiuCentrotijpiis, 2152. Emphusis malleus, Wa
. Rhynchota ... a *. Distribution. Oriental and Malayan Eegions. Buckton diagnoses this genus as follows :— Pronotum withoutsuprahumeral horns, tumid and crescentic in form, much variegated with rich brown. Hind tarsi short. The pronotal lateral processes are, however, well developed, butsubhorizontally directed and apically recurved and iu a continuous E, tum(sce?is, Buckt. = i. ohesus, Fairm. PEEL^MAX. f7 line with the crescentie anterior margin of the pronotuni. Tliisis the real and sufficient character which separates Emphusu froiuCentrotijpiis, 2152. Emphusis malleus, Walk. (Centrotus) List Horn, ii, p. 013(1851).Centrotypus obesus, Atkins, (part.) J. A. S. B. liv, p. 88 (188-)) ;Melich. (part.) Honi. Faun. Ceylon, p. 116 (1903). Pronotum indigo-black ; head, body beneath and legs dull black,finely pilose; tegmina stramineous, extreme base, costal and radialareas black, apical area bronzy-brown; pronotum coarselypunctate, antei-iorly broad and rounded ; the lateral transverse. Fig. 29.—Emphusis malleus. processes somewhat short, recurved, posteriorly bicarinate above,their apices broadly subacute; the posterior process somewhatbroad and very strongly tricariuate above, its apex acute and veryslightly passing tlie posterior angle of the inner margin, thecentral carination only continued on the basal area of thepronotum; tegmiua w ith the black basal, costal and radial areaspunctate ; anterior legs not prominently iucrassate. Length 8|; breadth lat. pronot. process. 6 millim. Hah. Ceylon ; Kalutara {Green). Stai (Ofv. Eiirh. 18G0, p. 280), and Atkinson andMelichar {supra) treat this species as a synonym of C. obesus,Fairm. = maneator, Walk. = inaUeohis, Walk. The latter, however,is a distinct Javan species in which the pronotal angles are muchmore obtuse than in C. malleus, AValk. G-enus PEKIAMAN, uov. Type, , Buckt. Distribution. Oriental and Malayan Eegions. race strongly emarginate before clypeus ; pronotum frontal
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