. Rhynchota ... jana fla vipes. process recurved from near base, above tricarinate, the centralcarinatiou continued through pronotum; tegmina with the piceousareas coarsely punctate and slightly pilose. Length 6| ; breadth lat. pronot. process. 5 millim. Hah. Assam ; Margherita (Coll. Dist.). Ceylon ,; Kandy,Peradeniya, Nawalapitya (Green). Melichar (supra) has included this species as a synonym ofCentruchus atricoxis, Kirby, probably from its describer havingstated that it might prove to be a variety of that species. Thetwo species are, however, not congeneric. B. Lateral pronotalprocesses al


. Rhynchota ... jana fla vipes. process recurved from near base, above tricarinate, the centralcarinatiou continued through pronotum; tegmina with the piceousareas coarsely punctate and slightly pilose. Length 6| ; breadth lat. pronot. process. 5 millim. Hah. Assam ; Margherita (Coll. Dist.). Ceylon ,; Kandy,Peradeniya, Nawalapitya (Green). Melichar (supra) has included this species as a synonym ofCentruchus atricoxis, Kirby, probably from its describer havingstated that it might prove to be a variety of that species. Thetwo species are, however, not congeneric. B. Lateral pronotalprocesses almost ohliquely straight. 2128. Telinganaimitator, A7?i;/ (Centrotus),./. Linn. Soc, Zool. xxiv,p. 107 (LS91); Melich. (Leptocentrotus) Hum. Faun. Ceylon,p. 118(1903). Indigo-black ; lateral margins of pronotum and sternum, andbase of scutellum cretaceously sericeous ; legs pale ochraceous ;tegmina stramineous ; base and about basal half of costal areablack; pronotum thickly finely punctate, the lateral processes. TeliiKjatiu imitator. obliquely straight, a Kttle directed backward ; posterior processcurved, considerably shorter tlian tegmina, centrally and laterallycarinate above, the central carination continued through pronotum ;scutellum longer than broad, coarsely punctate ; tegmina coarselypunctate on the black area at base and on costal area. Length 5; breadth lat. pronot. process. 2| millim. Hah. Ceylon; Pundaluoya (&r<?m). 22 MEMBRACID^. 2129. Telingana pallipes, Sm (LeptoMus), Ofv. Fork. 1869, p. 284 ; Atkins. J. A. S. B. liv, p. 82 (188o). Black, distinctly punctate ; lateral margins of pronotum andsternum, and base of scutellum densely ochraceoasly sericeous ;tegmina sordidly vinaceous, base of clavus, entire costal area andradial area at base and outwardly beyond middle black, punctate;lateral processes of pronotum slender, moderate, graduallyacuminate, straight, turning outwards, above uniearinate, beneathbicarinate; posterior process slightly curved tow


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