. Rhynchota ... ATHOUTHA, no\. Type, B. indicans, AV^alk. Distribution. Ceylon. Pronotum long, posteriorly truncate, lateral auglos producedanteriorly into longitudinal, slightly directed upward processes ;posterior process emitted from near base, slender, curved, extendedwell above scutelluin and tegmina, lateral posterior anglessubacutely prominent; scutellum completely exposed, longer thanbroad, centrally, finely longitudinally carinate; tegmina with thevinns to lateral areas curved inwardly, gradually widened frombase but apically subacutely narrowed ; legs simple ; eyesprominent. 2131. Ba
. Rhynchota ... ATHOUTHA, no\. Type, B. indicans, AV^alk. Distribution. Ceylon. Pronotum long, posteriorly truncate, lateral auglos producedanteriorly into longitudinal, slightly directed upward processes ;posterior process emitted from near base, slender, curved, extendedwell above scutelluin and tegmina, lateral posterior anglessubacutely prominent; scutellum completely exposed, longer thanbroad, centrally, finely longitudinally carinate; tegmina with thevinns to lateral areas curved inwardly, gradually widened frombase but apically subacutely narrowed ; legs simple ; eyesprominent. 2131. Bathoutha indicans, Walk. (Oxvrhaehis) Ligf Hum., 128 () ; MrUch. Horn. Faun. Ceylon, p. 108 (1903). Pronotum above and scutellum black ; thickly covered withminute clusters of short pale greyish hairs; front of pronotum,face, sternum and abdomen beneath more or less cretaceouslysericeous ; tegmina piceous, becoming bronzy-brown on innerand costal apical areas; femora castaueous, their apices and the. Fig. 21.—Bathoutha wclkans. whole of the tibiae and tarsi ochraceous ; lateral pronotal processesas seen from above moderately slender, three-cornered, directedalmost longitudinally but a little upwardly and outwardly, theirapices outwardly broadened and concavely truncate ; posteriorprocess slender, tricarinate above, strongly curved and elevatedabove both scutellum and tegmina, its apex finely acute andslightly recurved ; scutellum with a fine central carination. Length 7^ : breadth lat. pronot. process. 4 millim. Hah. Ceylon {Brit. Mas.); Yatiyautota ((rj-een). 2-t Division ACANTIIOPHYESAIUA. This division iucliules a few genera, mostly Neotropical, whichhave a downward prolongation beneath the posterior pronotalprocess, sometimes connecting it with the scutellum. Synopsis of Genera* A. Posterior pionotal process united with the apex of scuteUum by a distinct perpen-dicular prolongation Dograna, p. 24, B. Posterior pronotal process impinging on scutel
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