. Rhynchota ... ; legs piceous, tarsi ochraceous ; pronotum stronglytuberculous, strongly ridged and moderately arched, befoi-e thebase of posterior process it is obtusely angulate; posterior processconcave at base and strongly convexly laminately produced beforeapex, the central ridge finely tuberculous ; tegmina more or lessfinely tuberculous, especially on the veins. Length 2| millim. Hab. Calcutta {Indian Mus. ^ Coll. Dist.). 2214. Coccosterphus tuberculatus, Motsch. (Anomus) Etial , p. 109 (1859); Mclich. (Coccosterplius) Hont. Faun. Ceylon,p. 121 (190;:i).Gargara fasciata, Melich
. Rhynchota ... ; legs piceous, tarsi ochraceous ; pronotum stronglytuberculous, strongly ridged and moderately arched, befoi-e thebase of posterior process it is obtusely angulate; posterior processconcave at base and strongly convexly laminately produced beforeapex, the central ridge finely tuberculous ; tegmina more or lessfinely tuberculous, especially on the veins. Length 2| millim. Hab. Calcutta {Indian Mus. ^ Coll. Dist.). 2214. Coccosterphus tuberculatus, Motsch. (Anomus) Etial , p. 109 (1859); Mclich. (Coccosterplius) Hont. Faun. Ceylon,p. 121 (190;:i).Gargara fasciata, Melich. Horn. Faun. Ceylon, p. 122 (1903). Similar to variegata ; front and pronotum rusty-brown, thicklyand finely punctured, sparsely covered with extremely short,depressed, greyish-white hairs ; the middle keel obsolete onpronotum ; posterior process broad, triangular, reaching to tip ofclavus, straight, in middle distinctly keeled; tegmina hyaline,greyish-white, rusty-brown at base to nearly one-third of length of. Fig. 59.— CocTOs/erjjlrus tubci-culatu^. tegmina and a rusty-brown transverse fascia beyond the middle,extending from tip of clavus to costal margin, the transversefascia generally paler than the dark basal area ; all the veins rusty-yellow ; wings hyaline with rusty-yellow veins ; pectus and abdomendark brown ; legs rusty-brown, claws darker. {Melicliar.) The greyish-white markings on the front of the pronotum asshown in the above figure are neither mentioned by Motschoulskynor Meliehar, who probably examined old specimens. Length $ 3| mihim. Hah. Ceylon; Peradeniya {Qrcen), Kala-Weisa and Puttalami{fide Meliehar). The specimen figured is a cotype of Gargara fasciata, Melich. inthe Museum Hougrois at Budapest, and was kindly sent to mefor that purpose by Dr. Horvath. I reproduce Melicharsdescription. COCCOSTERPHUS. 73 2215. Coccosterphus obscurus, sp. n. Black, tegmiua piceous sprinkled with small cretaceous spots,in some specimens, as the one here figured, the spot
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