xipnisTES. y 



tlie processes three-cornered or tricarinate ; posterior process 

 long, tricarinate or three-cornered, ahnost reaching the apex of the 

 interior mai'gin of the tegmina, but not ampliately compressed 

 beneath as in Oxijrhacliis, above with a central carinate line which 

 is continued on the pronotum ; wings with four apical areas; sides 

 of the pro- and mesonota armed with a small spine or tooth ; 

 tibia? compressed and moderately dilated. 



This has hitherto been regarded as an Ethiopian genus, but the 

 following Oriental species must be included in it. 



2111. Xiphistes nnicolor, Wall;. (Oxvrhachis) List Horn, ii, p. oOO 

 (18.31); uUkins. J. A. S. B. liv,'p. 78 (1885). 



Ferruginous, shortly pilose ; tegmina subhyaline, with the 

 venation dull testaceous ; pronotal angles longly, subacutely and 

 longitudinally produced, moderately divergent, as seen from in 

 front more upwardly directed ; posterior process tricarinate, 

 apically a little recurved, terminating at the posterior angle of 

 the inner margin of tegmina; femora black, their apices and the 



Fig. 5. — A'ijjk/sfes unicolnr. 



tibia? and tarsi testaceous ; base of tegmina coarsely punctate ; 

 pronotum thickly but finely punctate. 



Length including lateral pronot. process. 10 millim. 



JIab. " East Indies " (Parrif, Brit. JIas.). 



SuM'amilv II. CENTROTIN.E. 



Nudiscuti, Ami/. Si- Scrv. Hem. p. o49 (1843). 



.Tassida, subfam. Centrodida, ^tdl, Hem. Afr. iv, p. 83 (1866) ; id. 



(part) Ofv. Vet.-Ak. Fiirh. 1869, p. 280. 

 Centrotina, Stdl, Ofc. Vet.-Ak. Forh. 1870, p. 7i>7. 

 Centrotinse, Fowler, Biol. Centr.-Am., Bltymlt. Horn, ii, p. •"! (1894J : 



Goding, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S. Wales, xxviii, p. 5 (1903). 



Scutellum distinct, moi'e or less uncovered, produced beyond 

 metanotum, and furnished with acute apical angles. 



This subfamily is not, however, one of rigid diagnosis, foi', as in 

 the division CoccosterpJiusaria, there is no complete scutellum. 



