. Rhynchota ... e scutellum ;tegmina apically subacute, their costal margins strongly convex,costal and radial areas broad, the latter dilated near base. The strongly produced head is the principal character of thisgenus. I give Walkers Jutstatus as type of the genus, becauseChaleptis antedates Philagra but sinks through the name beingpreoccupied. a. Head longer than pronotum. 2268. Philagra fusiformis, Walk. (Gyrene) List Horn., Sappl. p. 47(18o8); Atkins. J. A. >S. B. Iv, p. 48 (1886); MelicJi. \,Y>. 177 {\dO\).Chalepiis aconophoridcs. Walk. List Horn., Suppl. p. 192 (18
. Rhynchota ... e scutellum ;tegmina apically subacute, their costal margins strongly convex,costal and radial areas broad, the latter dilated near base. The strongly produced head is the principal character of thisgenus. I give Walkers Jutstatus as type of the genus, becauseChaleptis antedates Philagra but sinks through the name beingpreoccupied. a. Head longer than pronotum. 2268. Philagra fusiformis, Walk. (Gyrene) List Horn., Sappl. p. 47(18o8); Atkins. J. A. >S. B. Iv, p. 48 (1886); MelicJi. \,Y>. 177 {\dO\).Chalepiis aconophoridcs. Walk. List Horn., Suppl. p. 192 (1858);Stdl, Ofv. Fork. 1802, p. 494. Body and legs ochraceous; head, pronotum, and scutellumthickly, shortly, palely pilose; abdomen shining ochraceous ;tegmina ochraceous with pale irregular scattered fuscous mark-ings ; wings subhyaline with a pale ochraceous tint; head abovestrongly tricarinate, about half as long again as pronotum, itsapex slightly upwardly recurved ; face strongly centrally carinate,. Fig. 83.—Phil(/t/ru fus^ijorinis. its posterior area transversely striate ; rostrum almost reachiiig theposterior coxa3. Var. Darker and more brownish ochraceous in hue, the fuscousmarkings to the tegmina darker and more numerous. 1-ength excl. tegm. 10 to 14; exp. tegm. 18 to 27 millim. JIah. Sikhim {Indian Man.). Assam; Margherita {CoU. Dist.).Burma; Euby Mines (Z)o7ier<7/).—North China {Brit. Mus.). CEECOPIN.*;. 109 b. Head as long as pro no Philagra dissimilis, sp. n. Piceous-brown, somewhat thickly ochraceously tomentose ; apexof scutellum ochraceous; face, clypeus, and legs darker piceous;head above about as long as pronotum, its apex much less nt-tenuated than iu the preceding species and somewhat broadlvrounded, much more faintly centrally and laterally carinate, andfinely transversely wrinkled, its extreme lateral margins brownish-ochraceous; face transversely striate, more strongly so on itsanterior area, obsoletely centrally carinate, but c
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