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MEMBEACID.E. 



cretaceously sericeous ; legs and abdomen beneath black, the first 

 more or less greyishlj pilose, the latter more distinctly so; tegmina 

 pale bronzy, the base black, follo\\ed by a large transverse dull 

 ochraceous spot ; prouotuin thickly and somewhat coarsely 

 punctate, the discal transverse processes seen from behind more 

 prominently recurved than when viewed in front, their apices 

 acute, the posterior process curved and a little undulated, strongly 

 tricarinate above ; scutellum beyond the cretaceous base finely 

 thickly punctate ; black basal area of tegmina thickly coarsely 

 punctate. 



Length 9.4 ; breadth lat. pronot. process. 5 millim. 



Hah. India {fide Fairmnire). — Java. 



2119. Leptobelus gazella. Fair?)}. (Centrotus) A)m. Soc. Frit. Fr. 

 1840, p. 510 ; tUtM (Leptobehis), Ferl. Ent. Zeitschv. x, p. 380 

 (1800) ; Atliiis. J. A. S. B. liv, p. 81 (1885) ; Buckt. (Leiito- 

 ceiitrus) Monoyr. Membmv. p. -135, t. liii, f. 5 a (1903). 



Indigo-black ; legs castaneous ; tegmina brownish-ochraceous, 

 dark castaneous at base ; pronotuin and its processes thickly 

 punctate, lateral processes wide, recurved, three-cornered or 

 tricarinate, posterior process almost straight, centrally and 



llg. 12. — Leptobelus ga:ellu. 



laterally carinate, the central. carination continued throughout the 

 pronotimi ; scutellum elongate, more or less white at base (this 

 character is to be best seen in fresh specimens) ; tegmina with the 

 apical area distinctly wrinkled ; tarsi paler than tibia^ ; pronotum 

 finely palely pilose. 



Length 8 to 10 ; breadth lat. pronot. process. 6 millim. 



Hah. Assam {Coll. Dlst.) ; Naga Hills {Dohertij). Burma ; Euby 

 Mines {DoJierty). 



Genus MAARBARUS, nov. 



Type, M. Imhalus, Kirby. 



JJistnhvtioii. Ceylon . 



Scutellum exposed, elongate, subtrinngular, considerably longer 

 than broad ; pronotum with two curved lateral processes ; the 

 posterior process obliquely rising from base of pronotum and then 

 straightly obli(iuely turned downward, not reaching apex of 



