UATIIOUTHA. 



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posterior process obliquely robust at base, tlieitce slender, oblique 

 and dull castaueous to apex, which passes the posterior angle of 

 the iuner margiu of tegmina. 



Length 4; breadth lat. pronot. process. 2 millim. 



Hah. Ceylon; Kan dy (G^rem). 



Genus BATHOUTHA, no\ . 



Type, B. indicans, AV^alk. 



Distribution. Ceylon. 



Pronotum long, posteriorly truncate, lateral auglos produced 

 anteriorly into longitudinal, slightly directed upward processes ; 

 posterior process emitted from near base, slender, curved, extended 

 well above scutelluin and tegmina, lateral posterior angles 

 subacutely prominent ; scutellum completely exposed, longer than 

 broad, centrally, finely longitudinally carinate ; tegmina with the 

 vinns to lateral areas curved inwardly, gradually widened from 

 base but apically subacutely narrowed ; legs simple ; eyes 

 prominent. 



2131. Bathoutha indicans, Walk. (Oxvrhaehis) Ligf Hum., Suppl. 

 p. 128 (18.38) ; Mr'Uch. Horn. Faun. Ceylon, p. 108 (1903). 



Pronotum above and scutellum black ; thickly covered with 

 minute clusters of short pale greyish hairs ; front of pronotum, 

 face, sternum and abdomen beneath more or less cretaceously 

 sericeous ; tegmina piceous, becoming bronzy-brown on inner 

 and costal apical areas ; femora castaueous, their apices and the 



Fig. 21. — Bathoutha wclkans. 



whole of the tibiae and tarsi ochraceous ; lateral pronotal processes 

 as seen from above moderately slender, three-cornered, directed 

 almost longitudinally but a little upwardly and outwardly, their 

 apices outwardly broadened and concavely truncate ; posterior 

 process slender, tricarinate above, strongly curved and elevated 

 above both scutellum and tegmina, its apex finely acute and 

 slightly recurved ; scutellum with a fine central carination. 



Length 7^ : breadth lat. pronot. process. 4 millim. 



Hah. Ceylon {Brit. Mas.); Yatiyautota ((rj-een). 



