. Rhynchota ... , ziigel broad,semicircular, cheeks broad, forming an obtuse angle on the outerside; pronotum nearly three times as long as vertex, stronglyobliquely striped and wrinkled, on front border smooth ; tegminabroad, covering tip of abdomen, with strong veins, tjie simple GONIAGNATHUS. 311 inner sector connected with the inner fork of outer sector bytwo obUque veins ; legs strong, posterior tibiae with strongbristles. (Melichar.) 2559. Goniagnathus punctifer, Walk. (Bythoscopus) Ins. Smnd.,Horn. p. 104 () ; Atkins. (Bythoscopus) /. A. S. B. \x,p. 199 (1886).Goniagnatlius spurcat
. Rhynchota ... , ziigel broad,semicircular, cheeks broad, forming an obtuse angle on the outerside; pronotum nearly three times as long as vertex, stronglyobliquely striped and wrinkled, on front border smooth ; tegminabroad, covering tip of abdomen, with strong veins, tjie simple GONIAGNATHUS. 311 inner sector connected with the inner fork of outer sector bytwo obUque veins ; legs strong, posterior tibiae with strongbristles. (Melichar.) 2559. Goniagnathus punctifer, Walk. (Bythoscopus) Ins. Smnd.,Horn. p. 104 () ; Atkins. (Bythoscopus) /. A. S. B. \x,p. 199 (1886).Goniagnatlius spurcatus, Melich. Horn. Faun. Ceylon, p. 181 GoniWnathus elougatus, Leth. Bull. Soe. Zool. France, 1892,p. , pronotum and scutellum brownish-ochraceous, thevertex vnth. some obscure darker spots ; abdomen above black, thesef^mental margins narrowly ochraceous ; body beneath and legscastaneous-brown or brownish-ochraceous, sternum with a piceousfascia on each lateral area sometimes absent, legs annulated with. Fig. 199.—Goniagnathus punctifer. piceous; tegmina pale brownish-ochraceous, the costal margin andveins finely spotted with brown ; A\ings pale fuliginous and witha greyish-white streak beneath radial area ; pronotum very finelytransversely striate; head beneath brownish-ochraceous ; facefinely transversely brownly striate, medially palely longitudinallyinterrupted, cheeks with irregular brownish lines. Length excl. tegm. G ; exp. tegm. 12 mm. Hah. East Himalayas ; Kurseong {Lid. Mtis.). Bengal;Calcutta {Ind. Mus.); Pusa {Lefroij) ; Surat {Lefroy) ; Mussoorie(Lefroy) ; Maho {Deschamps). Ceylon ; Peradeniya (Green),Colombo, Negombo, Kaudy {Mus. Hongrois). Lower Burma;Taungoo {Bimjhmi). Maldive Islands ; Minikoi {Gardiner). 312 .TASSID^. The specimen figured is a cotype of Melichars G. spurcatus inthe Budapest Museum ; the description is mainly taken fromWalkers unique type in the British Museum. 2560. Goniagnathus nervosus, Melkh. Horn. Fmm. Ceylon, p, 180(1903). Yell
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