. Rhynchota ... larly striate; tegmina thickly punctate, the clavalarea more coarsely punctate, apical margin almost obliquelytruncate. Length inch tegm. 15^ millim. Hab. Sikhim {Coll. Dlst.) •. Barrackpore {Sir J no. Hearsay,Brit. IIus.). This species is allied to P. bohemani, Stal, of wliich the BritishMuseum apparently possesses an example collected by Dr. Hors-field in Java. From this it differs by the much less sinuateposterior margin of the pronotum and the less centrally furroweddisk of same, the much more strongly centrally Iidged vertex, andthe more obliquely truncated apices of the t
. Rhynchota ... larly striate; tegmina thickly punctate, the clavalarea more coarsely punctate, apical margin almost obliquelytruncate. Length inch tegm. 15^ millim. Hab. Sikhim {Coll. Dlst.) •. Barrackpore {Sir J no. Hearsay,Brit. IIus.). This species is allied to P. bohemani, Stal, of wliich the BritishMuseum apparently possesses an example collected by Dr. Hors-field in Java. From this it differs by the much less sinuateposterior margin of the pronotum and the less centrally furroweddisk of same, the much more strongly centrally Iidged vertex, andthe more obliquely truncated apices of the tegmina. The speci-men from Barrackpore in the British Museum I have fixed astype. m2 164 JASSfD^. 2363. Petalocephala cultellifera, Walk. (Ledra) /. L{7m. Soc, , p. 98 (1856). ^ ^ , . Ledra punctifera, Walk. List Horn. Suppl.^. 249 (1858) ; A. S. B. liv, p. 95 (1885). Virescent or ochraceous; vertex about as long as breadtli betweeneyes, conically produced towards apex, thickly finely Fig. 109.—Petalocephala cultellifera. centrally longitudinally carinate ; pronotum finely punctate, poste-riorly finely rugulose, centrally longitudinally linearly impressed ;tegmina thickly punctate; posterior tibiae inwardly strongly dentate. Length excl. tegm. 15 to 17 : exp. tegm. 28 to 32 millim. Hah. Sikhim; Mungphu (Atkinson CoU.); Darjiling ().—Malay Peninsula; Perak (Doherti/); Singapore ( Wallace,Brit. 3Ius.). 2364. Petalocephala conica. Walk. (Ledra) List Horn, iii, p. 823(1851) ; Sfal (Petalocephala), 0/v. Fork. 1862, p. 494 ;Melich. (Ledropsis) Horn. Faim. Ceylo?}, p. 145 (1903).Ledropsis stSli, Melich. Horn. Faun. Ceylon, p. 143, t. iv, f. 16(1903). This spt^cies is closely allied to the preceding, P. cultellifera,and can only be separated from it by the more conical and apicallymore broadened vertex of head. It appears to be confined toCeylon and from Melichars description I cannot separate thespecies he describes as Ledropsis stdli
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