. Rhynchota ... rn hemi-sphere. In this genus the posterior pronotal process is distinctly sepa-rate and somewhat remote from the scutellum, then moderatelyampliated beneath, the apical area slender and impinging on thetegmiua; anterior lateral processes of variable shape and size,generally, as in the species here included, longly produced. Stal,in his synopsis (supra), gives the lateral angles as acuminate, butthis cannot be maintained for all the species which I have hereincluded in Centrotus. The structure and position of the posteriorpronotal process is, however, appaiently a constant char
. Rhynchota ... rn hemi-sphere. In this genus the posterior pronotal process is distinctly sepa-rate and somewhat remote from the scutellum, then moderatelyampliated beneath, the apical area slender and impinging on thetegmiua; anterior lateral processes of variable shape and size,generally, as in the species here included, longly produced. Stal,in his synopsis (supra), gives the lateral angles as acuminate, butthis cannot be maintained for all the species which I have hereincluded in Centrotus. The structure and position of the posteriorpronotal process is, however, appaiently a constant character. 46 :. A. Anterior lateral pronotal processes obliqueJt/ directed vinvard. 2166. Centrotus indicatus, Melich. Horn. Faun. Ceylon, p. Ill(190.:3). Piceous-brown, thickly ochraceously pilose; lateral areas of thesternum and a spot on each side of base of scutellum greyish-ochraceous; tegmiiia with a small pale spot near posterior angleof inner margin; lateral pronotal processes as seen from above. Fig. 1)7.— Cr/i/mius i/u//<-■(///IS. somewhat broad, obliqnely upturneJ, bicarinate, their apicesobliquely truncate, as viewed from the front very much narrower,with their apices subacute; the posterior process separate from thescutellum, sinuate, placed close to the margins of the tegmina, thecentral cariuation very pronounced, the apex just passing theposterior angle of the inner margin of the tegmina; tegminapunctate on basal area ; legs pilose. Length 6 to 7; breadth hit. pronot. process. 4 millim. Hah. Ceylon; Kandy, Badulla, Jaffna (Green); KatnapuraDistrict, Moruwale, Gamaduwa, Patipolla, Uva (Colombo 3Ii(S.);Wehgama (Mns. HoiKjrois). Dr. Horvilth of Budapest kindly sent me a cotype of thisspecies for comparison. 2167. Centrotus granulatiis, Kirhy, J. Linn. Sac, Zool. xxiv,p. im (Ibi)l): Melich. Horn. Faun. Ceylon, p. 110 (190-)):BucU. (Daunuy) Monocjr. Memhrac. p. 220, t. 1, f. 2 a (1903). Piceous, greyishly-pilose ; an ochraceous spot near each laterala
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