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ACRYDIIN^. 



41. Systolederus anomalus, Hatic. 



Systoledei us anomalies, Hancock, Spol. Ze)'!. vi, 1910, p. 146. 



Body rugose, varied with brown. Eyes only slightly prominent; 

 vertex nearly half the width of one of the eyes. Pronotum trun- 

 cate anteriorly, not quite reaching the eyes ; rugose and slightly 

 tuberculate above, with the median carina waved, lateral lobes 

 slightly oblique, posterior angles acutely angulated, but not 

 spined, posterior process not reaching the tip of the hind femora. 

 Tegmina narrow, elliptical ; wings not reaching the end of tlie 

 pronotal process. Front and middle femora entire, rather long ; 

 hind femora thickened ; first and third joints of hind tarsi of nearly 

 equal length, and the three pulvilli of the first joint nearly equal. 



Length 7-9'5mm. 



Ceylox : Madulsima, 8. viii. 1908 (T. B. Fletcher). 



Genus HANCOCKIA, nov. 



Type, HancocJcia porientosa, sp. u. 



Range. S. India. 



Body stout, pubescent, apterous. Antennae very slender, in- 

 serted below the eyes ; head projecting between and below the 

 eyes, which are separated hy a space 

 more than twice their width. Pi-o- 

 notum gibbous between the shoulders, 

 and with thx'ee undulations behind ; 

 much raised, carinated, finely denticu- 

 lated, and very rugose behind ; longer 

 than the abdomen ; shoulders not much 

 widened, lower lateral margins ovally 

 sublobate outwardly, slightly depressed. 

 All the femora much widened and 

 thickened, very coarsely dentate-carinate 

 above ; front and middle tibiae short, ex- 

 panded ; hind tibiae long, slender, denti- 

 culated above, and with two short ter- 

 minal spines ; first joint of tarsi longer 

 than the third, pulvilli small. 



A very remarkable genus, resembling, 

 in profile, Hancock's figure of the South- 

 American Flatijtettix reticidatus, but 

 without the projecting shoulder-spines. 



42. Hancockia portentosa, sp. nov. 



Uniform blackish brown, \evy rugose 



and pubescent, apterous ; appendage to 



pronotum rather longer than the head 



Fig. 43. and fore-part togetiier, and obtusely 



HancocJcia xwrientosa. rounded at the extremity; abdomen 



shorter than the pronotum. 



