CASTETBIA. — SPATHOSIEENUM. 207 



behind, the back cylindrical, punctured, with the mediciu carinte 

 more or less prominent, the margins smooth and shining; the 

 deflexed lobes narro\^■ed towards the extremity, with the outer 

 border angulated in the middle. Tegmina lanceolate, not longer 

 than tlie pronotum, with the radial nervure forming a continuous 

 raised carina. Prosternal tubercle transverse, compressed, suh- 

 foliaceous, obtusely angulated at the tip ; space between tlie 

 mesosternal lobes equally long and broad, with the margins 

 slightly divergent behind ; the metasternal lobes not contiguous, 

 but slightly separated behind the foveolte. Hind femora about as 

 long as the abdomen, the tip not produced above the carina) ; 

 hind tibiae with 8 spines on the outer carina, besides the 

 apical one. Genital valves of the female with the borders 

 denticulated. 



246. Castetria dispar, Bol. 



Casletria dispar, Bolivar, Anu. Soc. Eiit. France, Ixx, 1902. 

 p. 6U. ' 



Ochraceous brown, or partly green. A shining brown stripe 

 behind the eyes, witii a pale border above and below, extending 

 to the hind border of the lobes of the pronotum ; on the head is 

 a second band lower down ; costal ridge smooth, sometimes 

 slightly indented near the ocellus ; fastigium of the vertex 

 obtuse, more transverse in the female than in the male. Pro- 

 notum with the back smooth, impress-punctate, obtusely angulated 

 behind, witli the hind sulcus placed more distinctly behind the 

 middle in the female than in the male ; the median carina mode- 

 rately prominent in the male, and slightly so in the female. 

 Tegmina lanceolate, with the radial nervure raised, the tip 

 slightly compressed in the male, and concave on the inner side 

 towards the tip in the female. Legs olive, hind femora darker 

 above. Abdomen varied with brown on the sides. 



Length 12-16 mm. ; tegmina, 2-3*5 mm. 



Madras : Madura. 



Genus SPATHOSTERNUM. 



Spathustenmm, Karsch, Sitz. Akad. Wis:^. Wieii, ]Math -uat CI 

 Ixxvi (1), 1877, p. 44. 



Type, Trisiria nif/rotceaiata, Stal. 



llaiKje. India, Siam, West Africa. 



Size rather small. Head and pronotum convex and level, with 

 parallel sides ; eyes very large, broader ; front very sloping, 

 frontal ridge sulcated throughout; anteiuite very short, often 

 hardly longer than the pronotum, thick, iiliform. Pronotum 

 tricarinated, longer than the head, rounded or smooth, obtusely 

 angulated behind. Prosternal process straight, transverse, slightly 

 curved backwards, longitudinally impressed, base narrow, apex 



