LEPTOBELUS. 15 



Syno2'>sis of Genera. 



AJ 



A. Pronotum strongly discally elevated Leptobelvs, p. lo. 



V>. Pronotum not strongly discally elevated. 



a. Pronotal posterior process strongly elevated 



at base Maaebarus, p. 16. 



h. Pronotal posterior process curved, but not 

 strongly elevated at base. 

 a. Veins to apical areas of tegmina straight 



or nearly straight Telixgaxa, p. 17. 



h. ^'eins to apical areas of tegmina curved 

 inwardly. 

 d'. Anterior pronotal processes produced 



laterally PARArOGOX, p. '22. 



h'. Anterior pronotal processes longly pro- 

 duced horizontally ' Bathoutha, p. 23. 



Genus LEPTOBELUS. 



Leptobelus, Sm, Hem. Afr. iv. p. 86 (1800) ; id. Ofv. Vet- Al: Fork. 

 1869, pp. 1^80 & i'S4 («) ; Aikins. J. A. S. B. liv, p. 81 (1885). ^ 



Type, L. dama, Germ. 



Distribution. Oriental Kegion. 



Face Mitboiit a lateral lobe, gradually narrowed ; sides of the 

 sternum unarmed ; pronotum with the disk elevated, the elevated 

 portion armed on each side with a transverse spinous process, 

 and posteriorly with a slender process \\hich is extended parallel 

 with but high above the body ; scutellum longer than broad, 

 gradually but strongly narrowed toward the apex which is shghtly 

 and narro\^ly obtusely or subsinuately truncated ; exterior 

 discoidal area of tegmina petiolated; wings with four apical areas; 

 tibite slightly dilated. 



1^118. Leptobelus dama. Germ. (Centrotus) w Silb. Bev. Ent. iii, 

 p. 258 (1835) ; Fairm. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1846, p. 510, t. iii, 

 f. 14; sm (Leptobelus), Berl. Ent. Zeitschr. 1866, p. 386; 

 Atkins. J. A. S. B. liv, p. 81 (1885). 



Head, pronotum, and scutellum black ; posterior area of 



Fig. 11. — Lciduhdui^ dama. 

 pronotum, base of scutellum, and apical margins of face densely 



